I think there is some real truth stretching here for controversy. National merit is based on the PSAT. Not something you take and learn of in senior year during

I think there is some real truth stretching here for controversy. National merit is based on the PSAT. Not something you take and learn of in senior year during college apps. You get informed directly by the corp, not via your school. The article waffles over whether it was 2 months or 2 weeks. My guess is that this is not actually about any significant award, but a little memo celebrating the fact that they got the award from the national merit corp a long time ago and already should have known about. Trashy new org and trashy news. Edit: and fwiw, this is a basically worthless award. Actually being a finalist can get you hundreds of thousands of dollars of scholarships. But the tier below that won’t get you almost anything.