National Merit

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No, the admissions office does next to nothing to attract high-end students.

I’m surprised, Cav. You’re far too smart to be so simplistic.</p>

<p>Our aid money goes to students with need. </p>

<p>There is a lot of criticism of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. [This</a> article](<a href=“สล็อตเว็บตรง เว็บสล็อตใหม่ล่าสุด เล่นง่าย จ่ายเงินจริง รองรับทรูวอเลท”>สล็อตเว็บตรง เว็บสล็อตใหม่ล่าสุด เล่นง่าย จ่ายเงินจริง รองรับทรูวอเลท) offers a pretty good summary. I’m going to quote a few lines, but I hope you’ll all read the article.</p>

<p>Interestingly, NMSC operates primarily they way students think the colleges do: with only a standardized test score determining who advances through two rounds of the selection process. Only in the very final round does any other information come into the process.</p>

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NMSC refused to provide a list of state cutoff scores, though they are published on the Internet. They range from 202 in Arkansas and West Virginia to 222 in Massachusetts and Maryland, Detweiler confirmed. (To critics who question the “merit” of the MNSP, the state-by-state differences belie the program’s claim to be “national.”)
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Only for the 16,000 semifinalists do factors other than tests enter the picture. In February, NMSP staff eliminate about 1,000 of them-those whose high schools do not endorse them, whose grades are not high, or whose SAT scores do not confirm their PSAT scores.</p>

<p>While opponents stress that most students are weeded out by virtue of test scores alone, defenders note that other factors enter at the end of the process.

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