<p>If you know you aren’t going to be National Merit semifinalist (For instance, if your state’s cutoff usually is something like 215, and you have a 208), and you were in the top 50,000, you already could list yourself as being “Commended”.</p>
<p>If you know you aren’t going to be National Merit semifinalist (For instance, if your state’s cutoff usually is something like 215, and you have a 208), and you were in the top 50,000, you already could list yourself as being “Commended”.</p>