<p>Hi.</p>
<p>I got a mail that says I'm one of the top scorers on the PSAT and all that stuff and it says that I can send my scores to two colleges.</p>
<p>How people usually choose those two colleges? Does it affect admission at all?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>Familiarize yourself thoroughly with everything National Merit if you want it to make a difference. There are many threads that go into that in detail.</p>
<p>I’ve looked around a bit and am wondering the same thing. There’s no thread that gives a clear-cut answer regarding the score sending… I’ve seen stuff about colleges that give scholarships for being a semifinalist or whatever, but we don’t even know if we ARE semi’s yet. Can anyone give an actual answer here?</p>
<p>I already get plenty of mail from colleges saying</p>
<p>“Wow looking at your PSAT scores we feel you can do GREAT at our college and blah blah blah”</p>
<p>so what’s the point of doing this?</p>
<p>Did you check [National</a> Merit Scholarship Corporation](<a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/?]National”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/?)?</p>
<p>There’s lot of links, so can someone tell me about it?</p>
<p>Is it for scholarship (i.e. I can enter a chance to win a scholarship from the two colleges I decided to send scores to?)</p>
<p>The point of sending the information to two colleges is to say “Hey! Look at me! I may be someone you want to recruit!” It is utterly pointless to send this to colleges which do not offer NM scholarships.</p>
<p>Please also note that you will hear from colleges about NM scholarships even if you don’t name them as one of the two.</p>
<p>Also, see these threads:</p>
<p>PSAT Scores for National Merit Semifinalists 2009 (H.S. Class of 2010)
National Merit Scholarship? PSAT taken October 2008
National Merit: College Plans Reporting Service
How to Use National Merit Corp. College Plans Reporting Service?
National Merit cutoff for 2010 class
Last year thread (closed): PSAT Cutoff Scores for 2008 National Merit Semifinalists (H.S. '09)</p>