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<p>@menloparkmom: its not that easy, ok? I knew a few kids at my school who had somewhat low grades that filled out their application quite seriously as they would any college/scholarship app, and did not recieve Finalist. </p>
<p>The NMSC would not waste students’ time by making them list their activities, get a letter of rec, write an essay, and send in grades if they weren’t going to comprehensively review the NMF applications.</p>