<p>The OP is asking about National Achievement, not National Merit.</p>
<p>OP, Scholarships might be out there, but it depends on what you think of as a benefit. I think it’s getting on mailing lists that is the biggest benefit. My daughter was “just” commended, but she ended up hearing about schools we’d never considered ( which means everything but University of California and HBCU’s.). It COULD be that you’d end up on the same list with the right SAT’s.</p>