@Riversider There are about 2,500 NM Scholars, but there only about 500 students with perfect SAT scores overall, and some of those are not NMFs.
All NMFs scored top 1% in their state on PSAT, let us assume that most did the same in their SATs. The 2,500 Scholars are 16.67% of the finalists, and about the highest 0.17% of the entire set of SAT takers (assuming all finalists are in the top 1% of SAT). According to Prep Scholar’s high precision SAT distribution, that would include anybody with an SAT score of about 1560 or 1570 and above. That is assuming that the NM Foundations only uses SAT scores to determine whether a finalist is chosen as a scholar, and that all NMFs scored higher than 1500 on their SAT.
So I would actually think that, in most cases, they won’t differentiate between perfect SATs, unless there are so many finalists with perfect SATs in specific state that there are more students with perfect SATs than the number of NMF Scholar slots that are allocated to that state.