Any NMSFs here?

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>Anyone NMSF catch this thread in the SAT/ACT forum?</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/563999-national-merit-finalist-low-gpa.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/563999-national-merit-finalist-low-gpa.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I was banking on the fact that since I’m NMSF with a good SAT and GPA that becoming a finalist was a sure thing. Now… I’m actually a little bit nervous that a handful of CCers have been rejected (one with a 2350; another with a 2360). What’s your take on this?</p>

<p>Not having USC’s presidential scholarship for NMFs would make going there nearly unthinkable for me.</p>

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<p>i saw it, and i gotta admit, i was scared like hell</p>

<p>but then i thought it over, and decided that there must have been logical reasons for those people getting rejected :)</p>

<p>plus, some of my friends got the letter already (for rejection) a while ago, so im starting to think that im safe…that helped me a bit too.</p>

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<p>They must tighten up this year. The year my daughter applied I heard nobody was rejected.</p>

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<p>Hopefully they aren’t arbitrarily rejecting people with decent GPAs in the name of tightening up their standards.</p>

<p>Best of luck to you anotherasian1234. Hopefully we both get finalist/additional scholarship consideration from USC.</p>