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It will for parents that want balance in their kids lives. Many won't even consider driving into the city for school. I know because people thought my parents were crazy that they let me go into the city for HS.

National Merit Scholars are not really created by a school. The are identified in middle school testing. They get scholarship offers to the schools that want to use them as advertisement for years to come.

I have 2 neices, a brother and a best friend that were all NMS and went to the schools of their choice for free. They would have been NMS no matter where they attended school.[/quote]

National Merit Scholars are identified through the PSAT - which kids take during the junior year of high school. NMS status is announced senior year. This is too late to get a full ride to a private high school. Your relatives may have gotten full rides based on something, but it wasn't based on their NMS status.

FWIW, kids take the SSAT to get into private middle schools and some private schools may require the PSAT instead. It's general wisdom that some private high schools select based on PSAT results from middle school, because they think a kid has [i]potential[/i] to be NMS by senior year. Although the testing is one part of the package with other parts (teacher recs, GPA) also important. [/quote]

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