<p>Hi,
I've heard various things about the grade minimum for NMF...just wondered if anyone had any info or suggestions about where to find out about something like that?</p>
<p>My son had several perfect PSAT scores (took it one year early in 10th grade) so we're hoping he does pretty well this time around (in 11th grade).</p>
<p>But, he chose not to do homework in a variety of classes (for whatever reason) last year, which brought down his gpa. And he has cut back his honors courses from 5 in 9th grade to 3 in 10th to 2 in 11th.</p>
<p>Not sure if there is a goal I could tell him re: cummulative GPA & when the administrators for the NMF would be making such a GPA assessment?</p>
<p>I'm guessing he should probably have at least a 3.6/3.8 UW but I really don't know, but if he did score in top 1 percentile of PSAT takers then I'm sure the administrators would expect an almost equally high GPA. hope I helped a bit</p>
<p>A kid in our grade was a national merit finalist and had a 3.55 WEIGHTED. He also took hard courses so I'm assuming his UW was closer to 3.2. As long as your son's GPA is above a 3.0 UW he's in good shape.</p>
<p>once you become a semi-finalist, you have to submit a high school transcript with every grade for every quarter starting with your freshman year, not just the final course grades.. I don't know if they actually look at your gpa, and I've never heard just exactly what is the deciding factor with these grades--there seems to be a lot of secrecy about the whole process--every year there are a few students who worry about a "C" from their early high school years--but that never seems to knock them out of the running.</p>