National Merit Awards

conwoman
Sun, 08 May 2005 15:57:09 +0000

abc:

The document (see the link above) says: “Applicants with the highest composite score in each COUNTY of the state are selected for scholarship”. CT has 8 counties, so if they have equal representation, there should be about 9 awards per county.

I don’t think their formula has any space for a heavily weighted class rank vs not weighted one. Another problem is that our school doesn’t do official ranking, so I am not even sure what has been reported. I know that for college applications they use “top 5%”. The scholarship committee could have converted it into 3/60 thus ruining my chances.

I will certainly contact them. After all it’s a federal program, and they should be accountable to taxpayers.