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04-08-2008, 06:02 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ny Gender: Female
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| National Merit? Notifications??
When will we hear if we made commended status or not? I heard it was sometime in April. | 
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04-08-2008, 07:31 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
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| Just thinking the same thing. But if you look at the percentile rank on the PSAT sheet shouldn't 97 or above be in the group? (Doing the math: 1.4 million tests, top 50,000 recognized = 3.57%) Unless I'm missing something, it looks to be close to last year with a 200ish cut off. (S has 201 and 97%.) | |
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04-08-2008, 08:57 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
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| the website says that top scorers (both commended and semifinalist) will be notified in April and have the chance to notify 2 colleges of their choice.
**Note, when we are notified in April, we still won't (definitely) know whether or not we are commended or semifinalist...only that we are one of them. | |
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04-08-2008, 11:30 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
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| I'd look for paperwork in about a week. I'm pretty sure my letter came right in the middle of April last year. Good Luck! | |
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04-09-2008, 10:20 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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| that's very good to hear. | |
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04-09-2008, 01:24 PM
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#6 | | Member
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| =( any chances with a 196? | |
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04-09-2008, 03:39 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
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| ^^^
That's for semifinalist. I believe commended is a national number. Last year was 200.
From NationalMerit.org:
Program Recognition
Of the 1.4 million entrants, some 50,000 with the highest PSAT/NMSQT® Selection Index scores (critical reading + mathematics + writing skills scores) qualify for recognition in the National Merit® Scholarship Program. In April following the fall test administration, high-scoring participants from every state are invited to name two colleges or universities to which they would like to be referred by NMSC. In September, these high scorers are notified through their schools that they have qualified as either a Commended Student or Semifinalist.
Commended Students
In late September, more than two-thirds or about 34,000 of the approximately 50,000 high scorers on the PSAT/NMSQT® receive Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Commended Students are named on the basis of a nationally applied Selection Index score that may vary from year to year and is below the level required for participants to be named Semifinalists in their respective states. Although Commended Students do not continue in the competition for Merit Scholarship® awards, some of these students do become candidates for Special Scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses. | |
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04-13-2008, 12:34 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ny Gender: Female
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| bumppppppppppp | |
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04-13-2008, 04:18 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
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| anybody hear anything yet? If so, what state? | |
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04-16-2008, 10:04 AM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Near Chicago
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| Nothing in Illinois yet. | |
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04-16-2008, 01:23 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Tennesee
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| Nothing in Nashville yet, but my mail comes late in the afternoon and I am at work. I thought that another thread mentioned something how Yale sends students fan mail around the time the notifications comes out. D got her Yale fan mail letter yesterday, and in it they mentioned her success in testing so maybe this will be the week the other letter comes! | |
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04-16-2008, 02:29 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
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| ^I recieved a letter from Yale as well (yesterday). | |
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04-16-2008, 06:43 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
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| Yeah I did too. | |
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04-16-2008, 08:22 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: near Houston
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| If you do receive notification, please post your PSAT score so we can figure out what the commended cutoff is. Thank you! | |
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