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05-06-2008, 04:38 PM
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#1 | | Member
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| Have you heard from National Merit?
I was wondering whether anyone had heard anything about the national merit or national achievement program for 2009, some friends from my school got a letter that said that had got commended. Did anyone else get anything? | 
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05-06-2008, 05:50 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
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| I received a letter about two weeks ago from National Merit, it doesn't say what I'll be yet (commended or semifinalist), of course. I didn't get anything from National Achievement, though, and neither did any of my friends who qualify for that. | |
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05-06-2008, 06:21 PM
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| Why wouldn't you recieve a letter? | |
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05-06-2008, 08:08 PM
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| I have no idea, but I didn't get anything from National Achievement, just National Merit. | |
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05-07-2008, 10:29 AM
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| Are you black? Bc if not then that explains why. but i did not recieve anything either. | |
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05-08-2008, 08:09 AM
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| I got it.
I got national merit 2 weeks ago. I'm not of African descent, so NM was all I got. | |
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05-08-2008, 04:14 PM
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| congratulations | |
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05-09-2008, 10:40 AM
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| Haha, yeah I am black, but they still never sent me anything. No one else that I know got anything either so...hopefully I will and you will too! | |
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05-10-2008, 10:09 PM
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| here's hoping. Btw what did you get on the psat? | |
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05-12-2008, 08:39 AM
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| hey, i got a letter from national merit inviting me to pick two colleges of my choice....but i don't know if my score's high enough to qualify for semifinalist (probably not, since i took the test in NJ, but I live in CT now). | |
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05-12-2008, 08:12 PM
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| I got a 201; what did you get? | |
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05-12-2008, 08:24 PM
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| 213......99th percentile nationwide...but then, it's prob too low for new england area.  | |
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05-12-2008, 11:49 PM
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| I got a 197. It was 95th percentile. | |
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05-13-2008, 12:44 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
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| 197 and 95th percentile is a great score that you should be proud of - congrats! Unfortunately the cut-off this year for commendation is 200 though | |
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05-14-2008, 09:12 PM
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#15 | | Junior Member
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| Ok, so people definitely don't know the difference between National Merit and National ACHIEVEMENT. Achievement is only for African-Americans, whereas Merit is for everyone. Just putting that out there. | |
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