<p>Menloparkmom - No one is suggesting that you would get automatic Ivy admission solely because of your NMSF status with 2000 SAT scores. Although, let’s face it, kids in those ranges DO regularly get in, based on other factors.</p>
<p>Yes, our neighbor had very high SAT scores - all I was saying was that at least 2 of the Ivies that accepted him said his NMF status gave him an edge over other applicants with high SAT and no NMF status - they like keeping that percentage as high as possible.</p>
<p>And I think we are getting the term “verified” confused. The National Merit Corporation requires a “verification” score on the SAT to move a student who qualifies from NMSF to NMF. 2000 IS an acceptable “verification” score. That was the original point of this thread, not an SAT score required to go Ivy. I’m pretty sure everyone’s clear that those are very different numbers.</p>