Where is the starting line, anyway?

[DavidPuddy]

@mom2and

I thought you were referring to the students getting national merit awards, not just finalist status. The vast majority of semi-finalists become finalists (about 15000 out of 16000) and those that don’t typically either don’t bother to write the essay or other follow-up work, choose not to take the SAT, or have really bad grades. I don’t think that even one or two Cs in a high level course would keep a kid from finalist status.

The actual receipt of a scholarship is different

I think that was the disconnect. Thanks.