Is National Merit Finalist status beneficial if you end up...

<p>Congrats!!! Great score.</p>

<p>Now make sure that he dots his i’s and crosses his t’s to make NMF. He’ll be notified around September that he made NMSF.</p>

<p>Did he take the test at a high school? (I know he’s homeschooled.)</p>

<p>BTW…there are many schools that give full-tuition or full-ride scholarships to NMF’s, so if you don’t like USC, then seek out others. </p>

<p>Or, at least apply to some others as financial safeties. When my son made National Merit, he applied to several NM schools and got over $600k in offers. He also applied to some schools that don’t give NM scholarships. He visited all his schools and chose the one he liked best.</p>