nms

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
1

<p>does everyone that get into harvard have national merit finalist or is this totall yfalse</p>

2

<p>completely false.....not everyone has really high test scores</p>

3

<p>Harvard enrolls more National Merit Scholars than any other school, but it's typically between 300 to 400 scholars out of an entering class of ~1650. So it's nowhere near universal for kids accepted to H.</p>

<p>Here is the data for 2004 for example:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.blackexcel.org/06-top-universities-recruiting-national-merit.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.blackexcel.org/06-top-universities-recruiting-national-merit.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

4

<p>Totally false.</p>

5

<p>Wasn't the question how many students who are National Merit Finalists are at Harvard? The number of Finalists would be greater than the number who are actually selected as National Merit Scholars. At my D's school, only 2 of the 6 Finalists became National Merit Scholars. I'm still sure there are plenty of students admitted who were not NMFs.</p>

6

<p>No, it sounds like beefs is asking if 100% of the students accepted to Harvard are National Merit Finalists.</p>

<p>So yes, that is totally false.</p>

<p>In most years, NMFs probably don't even make up one-fourth of the incoming class, since Harvard is looking for brilliance in more ways than one.. meaning not every student shines in test-taking.</p>

7

<p>Of course it's not 100%. All I'm saying is that with Scipio's figures that show 300-400 are National Merit Scholars, probably at least twice that many were Finalists. No, not 100% of the class, but a much greater percentage than are named NM Scholars.</p>

8

<p>I think Scipio meant "finalists" when he said "scholars" i.e. the terms are interchangeable. However, I believe nceph is referring to those finalists that actual earn the $2500 NMSC monetary award and I'm not sure whether there's any data/statistics out there regarding where those particular finalists go to college and just how many of them enroll in any specific institution.</p>

9

<p>In your opinion, is achieving NMS finalist something worth notifying adcoms about?</p>

10

<p>If you've already mentioned that you're a National merit semifinalist, then I wouldn't bother updating. They can pretty much see whether you're going to move on or not based on your scores and GPA.</p>

11

<p>That was along the lines of what I was thinking. Thank you!</p>