National Merit Scholarship Finalists 2024 Date

National Merit Scholarship Finalists 2024 Date. This article will explain the three key steps you need to follow to win the national merit scholarship, from meeting the entry requirements, to scoring well on the psat, to submitting a standout application. About 95 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the finalists will win a national merit scholarship, earning the merit scholar® title.

Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 national merit scholarship program by taking the 2023 preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test (psat/nmsqt®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Learn more about the national merit scholarship here.