07 Apr 2009, 11:31 pm
connor wrote:
Orwell wrote:
arielhawksquill wrote:
I had a National Merit Scholarship. It's entirely based on your scores on the PSAT, so be sure and take that test--National Merit will give you a free ride almost anywhere you want to go to school in the United States.
Nonsense. The actual money that the National Merit Scholarship pays out is beans, and most American universities don't really give a rat's ass about it. There are a handful of schools that will hand you a free ride for National Merit, and most of them aren't very good.
yeah i forgot. harvard is a sh***y college. i know i should've remembered, the ivy leage sucks
you PSAT score is more important than your SAT score for some reason i have no idea why
What are you talking about? National Merit doesn't mean crap to Harvard or the rest of the Ivy League... they've got plenty of National Merit Scholars applying, and they probably reject most of them. Look, I got National Merit, and so did several of my friends, so I know what I'm talking about. It really does not open up *that* many opportunities, unless you want to go to one of a handful of massive state schools like UTD, UCF, or OU. It sure as hell is not getting you into Harvard- most of the National Merit Scholars I know either got rejected from Harvard or didn't bother applying because they knew they had no chance anyways.
