<p>Lol @ my state’s cutoff</p>
<p>What’s your state?</p>
<p>South Carolina has steadily decreased their cutoff, lol!</p>
<p>And lol at how “New England Boarding Schools” are their own state</p>
<p>lol 202 for West Virginia. I should’ve went out about 4 hours to WVa.</p>
<p>Utah. 
I feel so lucky.</p>
<p>… the ****?
A 203? Damn son.</p>
<p>I know. But the sad thing is, I might not even make the cutoff. :(</p>
<p>i think i probably got national merit</p>
<p>Here’s a link to one of several threads discussing some of the scholarships available for NMF’s around the country. Some of the awards change from year to year so you’d need to check the individual school’s website but it’s a good place to start. Good Luck!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/136920-full-rides-national-merit-finalists-scholars.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/136920-full-rides-national-merit-finalists-scholars.html</a></p>
<p>To be honest, I wish I prepared more for my PSAT. At the time, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal but now that I see that NMF can net you a ton of full or half tuition scholarships at schools (not HYPSM-level, but still). Especially if you’re going into a field with expensive graduate schooling (think med/law schools), all the money you can save as an undergrad helps.</p>
<p>@Wolverine86: Thanks for all the info and links. I didn’t realize that so many schools offer full rides based on NMSF alone.</p>
<p>Here’s hoping that I’ll be able to pester my counselor into telling me early. To be honest, only a few others in my class had a decent shot at it.</p>
<p>25Squared…You’re more than welcome. We were totally clueless about the opportunities that NM status opened up for D1, but thanks to CC forums we’ve learned a ton!! I plan on meeting with the GC’s at D1’s school to make sure they’re fully aware of what a high PSAT score could lead to. There were only 3 NMSF’s in her school, but we never heard word one from them…we learned everything on our own from these forums. I don’t think kids need to put undue pressure on themselves going into the PSAT but being aware would be nice. Your school probably won’t be notified of students achieving NMSF status until the beginning of your senior year, but if you’re more than 3-4 points above the previous year(s) cutoff score it’s probably a good indication.</p>
<p>And just to clarify, there are some scholarships available for NMSF status but most are for NMF designation. That being said, there are normally about 16,000 students nationwide that achieve NMSF status and 15,000 usually are selected as NMF’s. The 1,000 or so that don’t are usually due to 1) not taking the SAT at all 2) not having an overall academic record indicative of the score (great test taker but underachieves in terms of GPA) or 3) not scoring well enough on the SAT to “affirm” the PSAT score (seems like 2000-ish is the number most folks throw around). Only about 1,500 NMF’s actually get selected for the $2500 one-time scholarship, but personally I’d rather have the $100K plus package from Alabama or the like instead. One man’s opinion…I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Here’s a little more organized listing of NMF scholarships.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation.html</a></p>
<p>What the… 215 for Georgia? Do they not realize that half of us are absolute idiots?! COME ON</p>
<p>Yay for California with a 219 cutoff! >.></p>
<p>^ I know, right?</p>
<p>Does anyone know when we get scores?</p>
<p>Why couldn’t I be born in South Dakota?!?!</p>
<p>I’m really anxious. This is the first time I’ve really studied for the PSAT, when it counts and I feel that I did either very well or pretty terrible.
I probably won’t even get mine until February again…</p>
<p>haha it is quite depressing to be living in Massachusetts. Even if I do decently, I probably won’t make the cutoff.</p>