Do I qualify for NMF?? (High Cutoff State)

Paying for College National Merit Aid
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Hi everyone,
I just checked my PSAT score on Naviance (my school posted this morning!) and I got a 1500! It doesn’t tell me any breakdown of scores or my qualifying index. All I can see is that I got 740 in “Evidence-Based Reading & Writing” and 760 in Mathematics. I live in a state where the cutoff is 223. Last year (10th grade) I got a 1480 and my qualifying index was 221. Do you think the improvement of 20 points is enough to get me to 223?

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Your selection index is 224.

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Thank you!!

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To calculate your selection index, drop the zeros from your scores. Double the EBRW score and add the math score.

For your score, 74 + 74 + 76 = 224

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Congrats sis - it’s extraordinarily unlikely any state will go to 225, so I think you’re good.

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Congratulations. Technically, you will be a semi-finalist. Most semi-finalists are evnetualy named finalists after jumping through some additional hoops.