Anonymous wrote:Anyway, someone should message / e-mail Jeff. Out of curiosity.

leave Jeff alone. of all the things discussed on this website knowing this is the least important.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

You have had an atypical experience.

It's a warmup for the SAT. However you do on the SAT is a million times more important.

Again, it's an on ramp for many academic scholarship offers. Is it necessary? Is it the most important thing? No. But it can be helpful.

No one is saying it's a bad thing. But it's a trailer for an upcoming movie. If the movie isn't good, no one is going to care about the great trailer.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

You have had an atypical experience.

It's a warmup for the SAT. However you do on the SAT is a million times more important.

Again, it's an on ramp for many academic scholarship offers. Is it necessary? Is it the most important thing? No. But it can be helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

You have had an atypical experience.

It's a warmup for the SAT. However you do on the SAT is a million times more important.

Anyway, someone should message / e-mail Jeff. Out of curiosity.

The only scholarship I got was a National Merit Scholarship. It was for about 2.5% of my total tuition & room and board. Not a ton but something.

Also, I got lots of recognition because it had been published in the local paper. At a time in my life when a lot was going wrong, it was nice to have some positive feedback. I'd like to give similar feedback to kids in our area who deserve it.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

True that no one cares. Not true that it's meaningless bc I got a bunch of scholarship offers as a result.

Third vote for no one cares. Also the bar in DC is crazy high. Any kid hitting that mark is also getting scholarships for a high SAT/ACT score. Where NMSF matters by itself is for states ike WV and OK where the bar is low, and kids can be NMSFs even though they can’t score high on the SAT/ACT.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

You have had an atypical experience.