Does being a National Merit Semifinalist help me for any of these schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've already been chanced for my top choices, but I'm wondering if that fact that I was a national merit semifinalist (in Texas), helps my admission chances for any of the schools I want to go to? </p>

<p>Here are the schools:</p>

<p>MIT
CalTech
Columbia
Stanford
Princeton
UChicago
UPenn
UC Berkeley</p>

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<p>Bump.</p>

3

<p>No</p>

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<p>What if I was a finalist?</p>

5

<p>Nope. With the huge number of incredibly qualified students applying to those schools, even National Merit Finalist wouldn’t make much of a difference.</p>

6

<p>I thought so, I don’t know why everyone makes such a big deal about it.</p>

7

<p>I agree, it’s really just an award for doing well on a practice SAT.</p>

<p>NMF is what’s saving my butt for college though, so I can’t complain too much about it.</p>

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<p>I think I’ll be fine with my current stats anyways, and I guess NMSF can’t really hurt on my app.</p>