Juniors: This is the Score You Need this Year to Be A National Merit Scholar

As I live in Connecticut, the score for those in the Nutmeg state is 218.

To see if you qualified go to Fair Test's site at www.fairstest.org. 

Or click on the link below: College Confidential.

Fair Test, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, writes today online "that The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which runs the country’s most prestigious tuition aid competition, is trying to block internet posting of state-by-state test score requirements for its awards. Nancy Griesemer, an independent college counselor in Northern Virginia who included the information on her website, was advised by NMSC’s legal firm to remove the scores from her site. That's why we are posting state-by-state cut-offr scores for high school class of 2010."

On her blog today, Griesemer recounted how the National Merit Scholarship Coproation allegedly reached out to her: The conversation began, according to her blog: “My name is Eileen Artemakis, from the National Merit® Scholarship Corporation, and I have been asked to get the name of your attorney.”

"There were no preliminaries or explanations. Ms. Artemakis, NMSC public information director, was employing a not-so-subtle tactic to frighten me out of crossing her bosses at the Corporation who were not pleased by my columns on the scholarship competition. A letter from legal counsel followed a week later," she recounted on her blog.

"What did I do to merit not-so-subtle threats of legal action? I posted qualifying scores for each of the states and the District of Columbia. According to NMSC lawyers, the Corporation considers this information proprietary. But nothing on their website warns of confidentiality and the data is freely shared on the internet. Even the kids on College Confidential have the cutoffs about right every year.

"Evidently, the public is not supposed to know or see the numbers laid out in their totality. Why? Possibly because the cutoff scores really don’t look too fair when compared across states, and the Corporation is determined to tamp down uprisings before they become revolutions," Griesemer wrote.


 

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