<p>Hi I’m a Junior and new to this site (although I’ve been lurking around for a few years already, I finally mustered the courage to register today). I just wanted to know if a noncitizen could still qualify for the scholarship. My scores are good enough to pass Georgia’s cutoff (Cr-79, M-80, W-80), but I’m only a permanent resident and a Senior told me I had to be a citizen to win the scholarship. Could someone answer my question? Thanks!</p>
<p>I believe that only US citizens can win the scholarhship.</p>
<p>From the National Merit website:</p>
<p>be a citizen of the United States; or be a U.S. lawful permanent resident (or have applied for permanent residence, the application for which has not been denied) and intend to become a U.S. citizen at the earliest opportunity allowed by law.</p>
<p>There is paperwork to fill out if you are not a citizen - <a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/citizenship.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/citizenship.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thanks! That clarified everything!</p>
<p>Hey, if i already took the SAT back in may, do i have to take it again to qualify for national merit, or will my old score “roll over”.</p>
<p>SAT scores from the two years until your fall of senior year are recent enough for the National Merit Scholarship.</p>
<p>cool thanks for the quick respond!</p>
<p>Im a junior in florida and i scored a 214. I’ve seen places that said the cutoff for fl will be like 216, 219, 215, 214, etc. Can anybody give me a pretty good guess i’ll make it or not?</p>
<p>I got a 231. I think I have to fill out some form if I want to qualify for NMF because I’m a green carder, though.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore and i took the PSAT last october. Oddly enough, everyone’s scores at my school were distributed in December. I didn’t receive my scores, and I STILL haven’t. </p>
<p>I did have to take the test at another school on Saturday because I missed the test date at my school on Wednesday. The other school said they lost my scores. </p>
<p>I e-mailed the PSAT board or whatever and they replied saying they would forward my e-mail to someone else. It’s been about 3 weeks. Any advice on what I should do?
Am I ever going to know what I got??</p>
<p>Have your counselor contact the College Board - they will probably have better luck.</p>
<p>I finally got my score today. Haha. I got a 206 in Massachusetts, so Commended (98% i got) but not even close to semi-finalist lol.</p>
<p>i got
CR 71
Math 66
Writing 69</p>
<p>sorry for the links not working in my previous post…They were both long links and CC just inserted … in the middle..I have broken it up this time…</p>
<p>For those of you who have been wondering about national percentiles for SI for 2007, you can find it in the link below:</p>
<p>[Understanding 2007 PSAT/NMSQT Scores](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools) </p>
<p>for comparison with 2006 look at </p>
<p>[Understanding 2006 PSAT/NMSQT Scores](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools) </p>
<p>my preliminary assessment is that for most states the semifinalist cutoff will not change from 2006…</p>
<p>Just a tip: for some long URLs you have to use BB code to mark the long URL around some anchor text, like this: </p>
<p>[ url = reallyreallyreallylongURL ]title of Web page[ / url] </p>
<p>except without the extra blank spaces I inserted in the codes to make the codes visible. That’s how I fixed the long URLs above, by making them explicit hyperlinks around the titles of the documents.</p>
<p>Thank you tokenadult…Thank God I had added the links to my favorite pages when I originally saw them in collegeboard.com…It is difficult to locate these things in that website…</p>
<p>Tokenadult:..I posted the same message in two other PSAT threads..Is it possible to rectify those also please?</p>
<p>
No, but it does look like the percentiles changed –
look, from 2006 according to those links:
the lowest score that was considered 99th percentile for juniors was:
CR: 73
M: 77
W: 72
overall 222</p>
<p>and in 2007:
CR: 72
M: 74
W: 74
overall 220. </p>
<p>.. dnno if that’s any difference, actually. does anybody feel like commenting at all?</p>
<p>sorry, but on the understanding scores thing, what do they mean by “99+” ?</p>
<p>^^ the upper .5 % or 99.5% and above percentile. imo if you recieve one of these, you’re set for semifinalist</p>
<p>papercrane, i’m not sure if those national percentiles have relevance to NMSF, which is based on state.</p>
<p>where can you find out how many people got 240? I’ve seen that 222-240 is 99+ but that’s it.</p>