<p>What percentage of all of your junior classes were called in as Commended or better for National Merit?</p>
<p>I'm still on spring break, so I'm not sure about my junior class yet.. But last year approximately 5% (20 out of 403) of the grade was Commended+.
Is that relatively high or low?</p>
<p>neither high nor low; depends on the school.</p>
<p>Erm...I was the only one out of 140ish, so I guess it was around .7% of my class.</p>
<p>with<em>one</em>voice, your school sounds like a typical high school. A national merit commendation recognizes the top 5% of PSAT takers.</p>
<p>About 6% of my graduating class made it to scholar, but there are only 18 people in it.</p>
<p>that would be 1 person s'vrone? lol....
my school only has around 3-4 commended or finalist out of 550 or something, so <.01 where I live.</p>
<p>In my High School 0 out of appx 380 were commended. Not one person out the history of the school (14 years) has anybody scored above 125 (old) or 185 (new). It is really sad. :(</p>
<p>my school's insane and usually gets like 20 semifinalists and then another 30 commended out of 190 in the grade so thats 50/190...about 26% but as i said, my high school is far from typical</p>
<p>yeah...my school isnt as good as spongebob's but we do ok...
we usually get about 30 commended or better w/ about 10 of them being semifinalists...out of a class of roughly 425 that comes to ~7%...</p>
<p>i got a 199 so i know I didnt get commended but how do you find out how your school did as a whole?</p>
<p>In my school, I was the only one who even had a chance of being commended (207, not sure yet where I really stand. My counselor said we don't find out til sept) so that's about 0.3%.</p>
<p>I am the only person in my class of 550 or so...so .002% lol</p>
<p>our school avg.s about one per year (out of about 100)</p>
<p>18 out of 700 or so, so around 2.6%.</p>
<p>I was the only one to take it in my class, so...1/85</p>
<p>i wasnt sure where to post this question...i got a 216 PSAT which i didn't think was so terrible. however, would it look unattractive if i sent it to stanford (through nmsqt)? or does the PSAT have no effect whatsoever on my admission? bc im kind of hoping ill do better on my SATs. okay thanks =]</p>
<p>we get like nearly 1/3 or more</p>
<p>If you're asking about listing Stanford as one of your two schools for this first thing with National Merit, other posters here have suggested not to. Stanford doesn't track or care about demonstrated interest, and they don't participate in NM -- they don't give scholarships for it, as all their aid is need-based. Ideally, you should choose for your two "introduce me" schools that are being asked for now, two schools you'd be interested in attending that <em>do</em> track or care about demonstrated interest. That'd be LAC's, and NOT the Ivys or near-Ivy's.</p>
<p>so like WUSTL? what other schools like interest and, as a result, would enjoy receiving your NM rec.</p>
<p>My principal told me he got something that had my name, along with about 8 other students' names from the College Board. That would work out to 9/138 or about 6.5%</p>
<p>my school has approximately 75-80 out of 180 get semifinalist (41%-44%) and who knows how many more got commended. School is full of very good test takers (I personally know about 35 kids with 2300+ scores)</p>