Why is National Merit Scholar award based on PSAT instead of SAT?

KKmama October 16, 2015, 12:13am 25

I thought you only got one shot at the PSAT and everyone takes pretty much at the same time? If based on SAT then wealthier students could keep taking til they qualified.

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