National Merit Finalists 2024. With 16 cbnrp award recipients, along with 12 commended students and four finalists in the national merit scholarship program, the class of 2024 has earned. Finalists for national merit scholarships must be graduating seniors who are selected from among the semifinalists on the basis of sat scores, academic.

About 95 percent of the semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and about half of the finalists will win a national merit scholarship, earning the merit scholar® title. National merit must receive student eligibility information from schools and then calculate the separate semifinalist cutoffs for.