National Merit Scholarship Commended 2024 Notification. The national merit scholarship program recognizes high achievers on the psat/nmsqt with opportunities for approximately $50 million in scholarships each year. Although they will not continue in the 2023 competition for national merit scholarship awards, commended students placed among the top 50,000 students.

We’ve compiled the national merit semifinalist state cutoffs based on the most recent data from the fall of 2021. The 2024 preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test (psat/nmsqt ®) is the qualifying test for entry to the 2026 national merit ® scholarship program.