Hi, guys. As I’m sure many of you have been since January, I’ve been reading about what the cutoff scores could possibly be this year for National Merit. I’ve been looking at concordance tables and reading every article I could find, but really I don’t think anyone has a super good idea. Just out of curiosity, what do people think of a 216 in Illinois? To me, it looks like it probably won’t be high enough. Thanks for reading!! 
You are right that no one knows for sure. Though we are getting close to knowing cutoffs. Few more weeks.
According to the folks at Compass, you are in the range (which they say will be 215-219). But they believe it will be 217. It will be very close. Good luck to you.
http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/national-merit-semifinalist-cutoffs/