<p>@bclintonk I wish <a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf</a> or some other site also published a list of National Merit Finalists or national merit commended enrolled by universities (since the National Merit Scholars are a confusing subset due to the varying award criteria). Even better would be a list of where all the students at or above some cutoff (35 ACT or 2300 SAT perhaps) actually enrolled. Looking at the 75% ACT and SAT scores at elite colleges - seems like the numbers are too high - ie there are more incoming freshman with top 1/3 of 1% test scores than were reported by the college board and ACT. </p>