National Merit Scholarship PSAT Score Cutoffs by State: A Family and School Counselor's Guide
Every fall, roughly 1.3 million high school juniors sit down for the PSAT/NMSQT. For most, it’s a practice run for the SAT. For approximately 16,000 of them, it’s the first step toward a title that will appear on every college application they submit: National Merit Semifinalist. The difference between those two groups often comes down to a handful of points on a single score called the Selection Index—and that threshold shifts depending on which state the student calls home.
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