What are Merit Scholarships?

In my last blog, I talked about what the PSAT is (the link to my previous blog post about PSAT's is down below), but I also mentioned Merit Scholarships. So in your head, you might be thinking. What is the Merit Scholarship? Merit Scholarships are scholarships that are awarded to you through academic athletic or artistic.

This blog will be about the Merit Scholarship regarding the PSAT. Getting a Merit Scholarship is no easy task. 50,000 students out of 1.4 million junior qualify for recognition based on their PSAT scores, around 34,000 students receive letters of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. 

To be eligible for the National Merit Scholarship, you must take the PSAT/NMSQT in October of your junior year. If you complete your four years of high school, you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. But it would help if you also got a top score on the PSAT. 

Saying if you want the Merit Scholarship, you would have to do exceptionally well on the PSAT. 

In conclusion, I hope this helped a little if it didn't, you can also do some research on your own then comment on my blog so I can add it to my blog! Thanks for reading!

link to PSAT blog: https://addylinsworld.blogspot.com/2019/10/what-is-psat.html

*You can only apply for a National Merit Scholarship in your junior year (11th grade). 

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