Trying to help a friend -- question about NA cutoff

celesteroberts
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:22:47 +0000

Someone claimed to be just ‘outstanding participant’ with 199 later in that thread, so that would mean at least 200 cutoff, if info is taken to be credible.

When you call, if you pretend to be the parent of the student, they should at least tell you if that student is or is not a semifinalist. Especially since it’s well after the date that paperwork needs to be sent in. You could claim your school never gave you any info and ask for confirmation of the student’s status, since if semifinalist, would like to pursue finalist and you are worried the school lost the info. They won’t release cutoff scores, but they have to give you info about a particular student, or at the very least agree to mail to student’s home address if they have privacy concerns.