<p>Just thought i'll let all ya know that the national cut-off for this year is 200. Our counselor gave us the letter from national merit scholarship coroporation today saying we met requirements and that we will find out in September whether we are commended or semi. Wonder how much the cutoff for each state will go down this year.</p>
<p>Does getting a 2040 on the SAT count? :P</p>
<p>i thought that the semi-finalists scores AND the commended cut-offs both varied by state- are you SURE that the commended cut-off for EVERY state is 200?</p>
<p>commended cutoff is nationwide, the same for all states. only the national merit cutoff varies by state. it could range anywhere from 5 to 25 points higher than the national commended cutoff, based on the state</p>
<p>UCT9F, almost. :) Commended is national, semi- and finalist are both state. There's not one called the National Merit cut-off.</p>
<p>well what i meant was that there's a different cutoff for each state right? and if you make it, don't you get at least semi-?</p>
<p>Thanks for the info -- I called NMSC about this on Monday and got zero info, so I've been wondering!!</p>
<p>I got a 227 but I'm still waiting for my notification... is anyone else who made this cutoff still waiting, also?</p>
<p>So if the national cut-off fell by 2-3 points (is this correct?), then can we expect state cut-offs to do the same? Thanks!</p>
<p>It fell by 3 points. The state cut-offs will probably fall around 3 points as well.</p>
<p>In a 4-year period 2003-2006, the commended cutoff rose from 201 to 203. Now it's back to 200. How how much did the state NMSF cutoffs increase in the same 4-year period?</p>
<p>Louisiana showed no increase, while Alabama, Florida, and Washington rose 5 points. The mean increase was 2.5, the median and mode were 2 points.</p>
<p>Will we see declines in state NMSF cutoffs in proportion to these recent increases? If for every point commended goes up, mean state NMSF cutoff goes up by 1.25, then a 3 point drop would amount to a 3.75 drop in state NMSF cutoff. If so a 3 point decline seems reasonable, but less in some states and more in others.</p>
<p>Data is here:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=2993607&postcount=662%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=2993607&postcount=662</a></p>
<p>I scored a 223, and I have yet to hear anything. My school is in Ohio, shouldn't we have recieved a letter by now?</p>
<p>I'm in Texas and haven't either. My school is slooooooooooow.</p>
<p>Nothing in California either.</p>
<p>i'm sure my school GOT the letter, i just haven't gotten it yet.</p>
<p>Yeah. Exactly. My school was even slow in giving us our score reports. I wanted to die by the time they actually passed it out... in late January.</p>
<p>I actually got a letter. It didn't say anything about being "commended" though, just that I was in the top 50,000 out of 1.4 million.</p>
<p>So I guess cut-off is 96.43%. I don't know what exact selection index that is. There's a chart somewhere on the internet that I can't find right now. I'd say at least 201 since I got 203 and am in the 97%.</p>
<p>I did pretty poorly, but even if I got 10 points higher, I still wouldn't even quality for semi-finalist because New Jersey is too darn smart (I think its always 220+ cutoff here). =(</p>
<p>Wow that sucks. I got a 199.</p>
<p>P.S. 96th percentile is 198-200, 97th is 201-205</p>
<p>Here is the link to the percentiles:</p>
<p>Clove, it was 200. :)</p>