National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists 2024 India. Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 national merit scholarship program by taking the 2022 preliminary sat/national merit. National merit scholarship program provides financial assistance for college to high school seniors who achieve outstanding scores on standardized tests.

To be named a semifinalist, you need to score in the top 1% of your state —not the whole country. To answer this question, you must first.