<p>I was wondering on the supplement whether or not I should list my PSAT scores. I was a commended scholar (score in the 99th percentile), but my scores weren't really <em>excellent.</em> Should I still include them?</p>
<p>No. Saying you are a commended scholar is enough. What counts in terms of scores is SAT scores.</p>
<p>ok thank you!</p>
<p>Don't even say you're commended. Too many people are commended.</p>
<p>Say you are commended. It's still an honor even though Harvard gets many applicants who are National Merit and Commended.</p>
<p>definitely say that you are commended</p>
<p>I thought once you hit the 99th percentile mark you were a national merit semifinalist?</p>
<p>It varies by state. 99th percentile nationally may not be 99th percentile in your state.</p>
<p>what's the dif between Commended and National Merit Semi Finalist?</p>
<p>semifinalists got higher scores, are able to qualify for finalist status and the scholarship</p>
<p>National Merit Semifinalist is the next stage and the final stage would be Finalist, so it looks better if you're Semifinalist than if you're just Commended. 90% of semifinalists go on to become finalists, btw.</p>
<p>not me :( i was a semifinalist</p>
<p>when do semi-finalists find out if they made finalist status?</p>
<p>yeah I'm wondering that too--I didn't write that essay for nothing.</p>
<p>I think its march/april. Yeah, it makes no sense to me either because I don't think NMSC has anything better to do with their time, so it shouldnt be that hard to pick out 1000 bad essays in more than a month or two. I think there were like 16300 semifinalists and they gotta narrow it down to 15000 finalists. Considering not every semifinalist even sent in the app for finalist consideration, i have no idea why it takes so long for them to announce finalists.</p>