<p>Can anyone give me examples of state cutoff scores from past years for this scholarship program? Most importantly, can anyone from Michigan, or anyone who knows, tell me what the cutoff score is on the PSAT fro the state?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I think in Texas it was 184, but it varies a lot between states.</p>
<p>Thanks! Anyone else?</p>
<p>Even if you get the Hispanic Scholar award all it does is get your name on a list that colleges use to send mailings. It gets you on their radar screen. There is no specific scholarship money. It has to be less than 200 because that's usually the cutoff for Commended. If you make it they will send you a certificate, but your school would know long before you get the certificate.</p>
<p>Of course it'd be an honor in my Latino community to win it, but I hate it when the whitewashed 1/8th Cuban John Smith Fernandez that doesn't speak a word of Spanish also gets to have it.</p>
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<p>Can someone qualify for the Natinal Hispanic Recognition Program and the Natinal Achievement Scholarship if someone is both black and mexican? Cause I need it.</p>
<p>i think you could. not sure though</p>
<p>p.s., there's lots of colleges that offer full rides/big scholarships to national hispanic scholars, search for the thread if you're interested</p>
<p>Do you speak Spanish, Vandan?</p>
<p>Sadly, no but I have a good reason why I can't.</p>
<p>Why's that?</p>
<p>Well, my father is the mexican one. He abandoned me before I was born. I'm not a native speaker because he wasn't around. I haven't seen him ever. He refuses to see me. He sucks.</p>
<p>"Can someone qualify for the Natinal Hispanic Recognition Program and the Natinal Achievement Scholarship if someone is both black and mexican? Cause I need it."</p>
<p>you could probably qualify for both, but you can only receive money from affiliation with one of the programs.</p>
<p>Ah, bummer man. You should learn it some time though :) I too wasn't taught the language at a young age because I was mostly babysitted by some white lady all the time while my parents worked, but I had a strong background in some vocabulary and pronounciation so one day I just bought some language tapes and books and began studying, and after a few months of studying it a lot I was able to speak conversationally with my family in Spanish and eventually became fluent. It's worth it ;)</p>
<p>All of my mexicans friends say that I should learn it to, and I plan on. I get really annoyed when they start talking in Spanish. But it's all good :) I thought about taking it in high school but the language classes in my school are BAD and I didn't want to waste my time studying something I feel I should learn naturally or at least on my own. Lately I've been spending most of my time self-studying other things, but learning Spanish is definitly on my to-do list.</p>
<p>I love being able to speak Spanish. I actually like it a lot better than English, in some cases. I'm actually the opposite of the two of you; I'm non-Latino, but I learned Spanish from a really early age in an immersion program. I never had to learn pronunciation, spelling, or basic grammar on purpose, I just picked it up from listening. I've travelled in some Spanish-speaking countries, and a lot of the locals I talked to while I was there were really surprised that I spoke Spanish, because I'm American and I look like a gringa.</p>
<p>I wish I had more people around me to speak Spanish with. I have a few friends I can speak with, but most of the time I don't get to talk in Spanish.</p>
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<p>All right, thanks for the advice! Anyone else have cutoff scores from other states, particularly Michigan? Oh, and by the way, I'm definitely not one of those watered down 1/8 Cubans, I'm 100% Cuban.</p>
<p>As far as I know it is the same cutoff for Hispanic in every state. Don't bother to call College Board or the National Merit Scholarship office. They weren't helpful and actually sounded like someone was forcing them to do this. Very curt: "...we have nothing to do with this, we only provide the scores..." Come m...das, if you ask me.</p>