<p>I know everyone talks about semi-finalist, but are there any scholarships for commended students and how do colleges look at it? My son didn't make the semi-finalist cutoff.</p>
<p>i think I’ve only seen one scholarship for Commended students and I can’t think of the school. </p>
<p>I think the problem is that there are 50,000 Commended students.</p>
<p>If your son’s other scores are high (SAT or ACT), he’d likely get merit that way.</p>
<p>My younger son missed the NMSF cutoff by one point…but he got free tuition plus 4500 per year in scholarships for his school because of his SAT scores.</p>