<p>I am one. Do we get anything in the admissions journey for this?</p>
<p>Competitve schools don't care. Non-competitve schools might care and a very few will award financial aid for it.</p>
<p>...just a few points higher...sigh...:(</p>
<p>You have an accolade that you can list in the awards section of your apps. Also the fact that you have scored that high on the SAT1 will interest some schools and may snare you some merit money.</p>
<p>Hi, Oregano:</p>
<p>We feel your pain. I notice you're from Alabama. We were hoping to have Alabama as a fall back financially because of their great scholarships for NMFs. But our son will probably get commended as well, so we're disappointed to not have a financial safety. We're in Louisiana, and son really wants to go away, so we have to look beyond TOPS.</p>
<p>I heard there may be corporate scholarships available to commended students. Make sure you look into that. And definitely list it on your apps. It is quite an achievement, and you should be very proud.</p>
<p>i'm applying mostly to really small (1,300-3,000 undergrad students) midwestern liberal arts schools, so I don't know if this will be of any help at all, but I got a couple hundred dollars from each of the schools for being commended.</p>
<p>Actually, there is still hope for commended ... in some cases. Make sure you've applied for corporate scholarships through parents companies. D just received notification last week from national merit that she's being considered for a corporate scholarship even though she was commended and not semi-finalist. Not unheard of from what I understand, especially if the company your parent works for awards a lot of scholarships. She just filled out all the paperwork and gave it to the GC. Her friend, who was semi-finalist, said it was the same paperwork she filled out in Sept.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>Thanks but I don't have parents like that.
My mom is unemployed and my dad was abusive, haven't seen him in 4 years.
So none of those for me.</p>