Talk:National Merit Scholarship Program

This year the index for National Merit semifinalist in Florida was a 215 index. Last year the cutoff was a 214 index in Florida.

Good luck to 2005-2006 participants!

cutoffs

Hey I was wondering where you found these cuttoff numbers? I didnt' see any links in the article

--Crucible Guardian 05:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

No state cutoffs have been published yet; only the national percentiles are available. Semifinalists are announced in September. The only group officially identified as yet is the High Scoring group, which is the top approximately 50,000.

National Merit Scholarship Program

Do they post the winners for 2006 anywhere? How about the State index cutoffs?

I don't know if National Merit does anywhere, but I'm sure with the large amount of people here we could gather enough data to do so (at least with the state index cutoffs). Douglas Whitaker 02:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 Scores

Just so we can save room on this page, scores for individual states are not officially posted anywhere anytime soon, as far as I'm aware, though I'm sure semifinalists are already posting on message boards (hint, hint). If you qualified, your school officials will let you know probably very soon. Zagsa 20:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

2006 (Unofficial) Cutoffs

Here is a post on CollegeConfidential that has some of the cutoffs: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=2993607&postcount=662. Some of the numbers are missing or circumspect nonetheless someone can incorporate them into the article right? Karma Thief 06:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

criticism

Should we include criticism of NMSP as being implicitly racist, as has been suggested repeatedly by the Journal of Black Higher Education? It's an important facet, and should probably be covered... Chris kupka 20:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Here is a reference for this comment http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1077-3711%28200122%2932%3C30%3ATRIBIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage but I feel that this is irrelevant, all they do is offer special programs for black students to aid them in finding scholarships that are only offered to blacks students. Such scholarships are not offered for white students ,I'm not going to get into how raciest that is, so a program is not necessary.

Merge

I suggest we merge this with National Merit Scholarship Corporation. There's is hardly anything in the other article, and this program & the PSAT seem to be the focus, so let's merge them.-Wikiphilia 21:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. Let's merge it into here.DGG 23:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC),

sentence

"All Finalists receive a Certificate of Merit in recognition of their outstanding performance in the competition. Generally, Semifinalists who fail to advance to Finalist standing do so because they do not submit the application, have a large discrepancy between PSAT and SAT scores, have atypically low grades for a high PSAT/SAT student (i.e. not at least mostly A's and B's), or do not receive the endorsement from their school."

As the writer admits, this is a generalization. Count me as one person who met the above criteria and was rejected to be a finalist. (A classmate with worse grades than me made it to the finalist stage). If you ask me the requirements are fuzzy and the selection process is mysterious. I don't think the quoted sentence is accurate, and even if it is, its too vague and certainly can't be backed up with statistics.

2007 cut off

I know in my state (PA) the cut off for the 2007 year was 200, I have a letter from the people that run it, but I don't know if it is necessary —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.94.4.197 (talk) 11:26, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

I scored a 200 in Kentucky in 2007, and my principal got a letter. 74.128.180.241 21:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)