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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year's qualifying scores listed here, around page 13.
221 for MD, 219 for VA and 223 for DC.
Apparently won't announce qualifying scores for this year's juniors for sometime.
https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/guide_to_the_national_merit_scholarship_program.pdf?gid=2&pgid=61
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I don’t understand why there is a single national cutoff score for a test that calls itself National Merit.[/quote]

This test is taken by 3 million students to qualify as 16,000 semifinalists, 15,000 make finalist, out of which couple of thousands get college or parent's employer sponsored scholarships. Only 2500 out of 3 million actually get National Merit Foundation's own sponsorship to become free standing National Merit Scholars. Its a small dollar amount but they get regardless of their college choice.[/quote]

That doesn't answer the question you quoted.   Why does a student from New Jersey have to score significantly higher than a student from Montana?
-not the pp you quoted[/quote]

[b]To distribute opportunities evenly among all states, every student has to compete with others with similar opportunities.[/b]

I guess merit foundation doesn't want to judge people who had limited opportunities in Montana or Alabama with students who had abundance of opportunities in New Jersey or California and colleges also want geographical diversity.[/quote]

The bolded makes no sense. Students in a state do not have similar opportunities to others in their state. Nova is much different than SW VA.[/quote]

Exactly. 
And do you really think students at some of the poor performing public schools in Newark have "an abundance of opportunities" compared the the sons and daughters of some of the very wealthy people in mining in Montana?[/quote]

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