Ohio National Merit Semifinalists 2024 Date. Semifinalists are selected based on their scores. 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.

The 2024 preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test (psat/nmsqt ®) is the qualifying test for entry to the 2026 national merit ® scholarship program. Just 16,000 students out of over 1.5.