National Merit and National Achievement

Silver.Pipes415 · 09-28-2009, 06:59 PM

Has anyone else made National Merit and/or National Achievement SemiFinalist? Also,what were your counselor(s),teachers and vp's reactions? Commended for either comment too.

BeautifulNerd219 · 10-03-2009, 08:26 AM

I made outstanding participant (secretly, I didn't study or prep for the PSAT...lol most of us just wanted the day off...)

thefranchize9 · 10-03-2009, 05:03 PM

lol beautifulnerd. there were 24 commended seniors in my school, out of our class of 98 which is roughly a quarter of my class. I'm so proud of my friends but unfortunately i didn't make it. I was soooo close!

BeautifulNerd219 · 10-04-2009, 11:11 AM

Aww ^^^ I'm sure you did a great job. That's A LOT. Lol we only had 2 including me.

thefranchize9 · 10-04-2009, 11:11 PM

Nice job! 10char

eating food · 10-08-2009, 01:17 AM

I was one of those fellows last year. It was exciting, but no one in my school administration really seemed to care... which is unfortunate because i'm pretty sure i was the first to achieve that.

oh welllll such is life.

BeautifulNerd219 · 10-08-2009, 09:06 AM

That really sucks. That's something to really be proud of.
I was wondering would being a CKSF Team Captain be something to put down on a college app. I thought it might sound silly, but then again, I don't know. I'm just wondering. (Random, I know)

Millancad · 10-09-2009, 05:08 PM

I'm a semifinalist for National Merit and National Achievement. Sometimes I get sort of upset that National Achievement even exists, because then people think I'm only a NASF, and you don't need a high score for that.

I was congratulated by a couple of teachers, but, including commended, we normally have well over 30 at my school, so it's not that exciting. It's not like I studied hard or ever expected to not be a NMSF. None of my friends who have it think it's a big deal either.

chirichimes · 10-12-2009, 12:50 PM

I'm a Semifinalist for National Acheivement. I was the only one in my school this year. There was also only one National Merit Semifinalist this year. But we had about 4 Commended Students, and about 3 National Hispanic Scholars. There's usually more of all of these at my school, but my grade overall is pretty dumb :P

People congratulated me, including teachers, principal, guidance etc. They put a little blurb + pic in the local paper, like they do every year.

decanela · 10-12-2009, 07:50 PM

Am I the only one who's school recognizes National Merit winners but completely ignores National Achievement winners?

oleole101 · 10-21-2009, 11:21 PM

I got it for National Achievement. I was the only one at my school and 1 out of 22 in the county.

Vballer2010 · 10-24-2009, 08:03 PM

Last week my school made a special announcement concerning National Merit Semifinalists. They basically named and congratulated the NMSFs and told them how proud they have made the staff.
I was surprised that they neglected to congratulated NASF like myself.

decanela · 10-24-2009, 10:14 PM

haha okay i'm not the only one!
whatever i'll just keep winning awards and get into a good college.

i don't need recognition to make me happy really..

yos · 10-27-2009, 10:45 PM

i'm also a semifinalist. i was kinda surprised..i'm the only nasf at my school, but we had 2 national merit semi finalists. and about seven commended merit scholars and one outstanding nasf scholar.
do you guys know what schools offer good scholarships for that? i know auburn has free tuition for all four years.

Dnerd · 10-31-2009, 03:22 PM

^ How do you know you're a finalist already? I'm assuming you're a senior since you're asking about schools still.

I'm a semi-finalist btw.