what's my chance?

gthopeful
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:18:44 +0000

I’m an in state student and I have a PSAT score that’s enough for National Merit. My SATs and GPA are almost the same, does National Merit improve my chances or do they not care about that either?

Up until like this year being a national merit finalist got you a huge scholarship. I got something like 24k over 4 years on top of bright futures, but I think at some point they eliminated the scholarship. Maybe you can list it under accolades, but other than that it’s pretty useless. I will say this though that in the past UF has been pretty big on mentioning their number of National Merit finalists.