National Merit Semifinalist 2024 Wales. 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. Below are the projected national merit semifinalist cutoffs for the class of 2024, who took the psat in october 2022 or january 2023.

Before checking out the qualifying scores, let’s discuss how the. Nationally, about 16,000 students were named semifinalists this year.