National Merit Scholarship Finalist 2024. All semifinalists are eligible to compete for 6,870 national merit scholarship awards worth nearly $26 million, to be awarded in spring 2025. High school students who take the preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test (psat/nmsqt ®) and meet other program requirements.

Students qualifying as semifinalists may want to read compass’s national merit scholarship program explained for more information about the finalist and. We’ve compiled the national merit semifinalist state cutoffs based on the most recent data from the fall of 2021.