List Of National Merit Finalists 2025. Becoming a national merit finalist is competitive and requires a top score on the psat. Nmsc only releases information regarding semifinalists and scholarship winners to media.
The commended cutoff — the minimum score to be considered for national merit honors — for the class of 2025 is 208. High school students who take the preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test (psat/nmsqt ®) and meet other program requirements will enter the 2025 competition for national merit scholarship program.