National Merit Semifinalist 2024 Illinois. More than 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. (evanston, illinois) today officials of national merit scholarship corporation (nmsc®) announced the names of more than 16,000 semifinalists in the 70th annual.
Becoming a national merit semifinalist is the first step toward potentially earning a national merit scholarship. Below are the projected national merit semifinalist cutoffs for the class of 2024, who took the psat in october.
