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<p>I think parents of NHRP scholars may wonder why Afican American, National Acheivement scholars are getting huge merit scholarships and automatic admissions from certain colleges, that are not being offered to NHRP scholars. (I know I did). I would conjecture the reason for this has less to do with the fact that there are different administrators of these programs or that College Board does not give scholarships, while NMSC does. I believe the main reason is that NHRP scholars include kids whose PSAT scores are within the first standard deviation, within the hispanic population. In contrast, National Achievement scholars consist of kids who are all within the second standard deviation and closer to the third standard deviation than the lower limit of the second- a very different class of kids. </p>
<p>I do not doubt that there is probably a very good philosophical reason for why these programs select such vastly different kids from within their respective populations. However, parents of hispanic scholars need to realize that there is a good statistical reason for why schools such as University of Alabama, TX A&M and Aurburn offer auto admit to African American scholars but not to National Hispanic scholars. Would you agree?</p>