<p>All of these are taken from the official National Merit Scholarship Program 2010 Guide: </p>
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<p>District of Columbia - 223
U.S. territories and commonwealths - 202
Outside the U.S. - 223</p>
<p>In total, there were 16,192 Semifinalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program and 34,874 Commended Students.
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<p>I just had to be born in Massachusetts…</p>
<p>bahumbug why cant i live in wyoming?</p>
<p>The trick is to score 224 or higher … :)</p>
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<p>Yay, I beat my own personal goal of beating the DC cutoff!</p>
<p>I never knew DC was so high…
223 in MD, proud to know that I would have gotten it anywhere ;-)… if only barely…</p>
<p>I think DC falls into the outside of the country category since it isn’t a state or anything.</p>