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What score you need to get, of course, depends on your state. The cutoff varies from year to year and from state to state. If you don’t know what it’s been recently in your state, you can look here to get an idea of what you need to get: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/show... .
Getting a score high enough for the cutoff actually makes you a National Merit Semifinalist—then you fill out paperwork, write a short personal essay, get recommendations, take the SAT, and eventually become a Finalist (95% of Semifinalists become Finalists) and then, as I understand it, about half of the Finalists become National Merit Scholars.
So, from a 184 to (about) a 215 is a long ways to go—the equivalent of raising an SAT score by 300 points. How much, if at all, did you study to get the 184? If it was little or none at all, and now you’re really committed to studying for the test, then you’ve got a shot! (I didn’t study at all between sophomore year and junior year, and I got the exact same PSAT score both years! Study!) Just study for it like you would study for the SAT. You’ve got the advantage of another year of math behind you, so that’s good. Take a practice test and identify your weaknesses, then find specific information to help you. The more familiar with the test you can get, the better, so you might poke around College Board’s website to see what’s on the PSAT compared to the SAT (http://www.collegeboard.com/student/test... ) and keep working practice problems. Have confidence! Go into the test believing you can do it and don’t stress yourself out!
Good luck!
For a National Merit Scholarship, they consider more than just your PSAT and SAT scores.
The PSAT score to become a National Merit Semifinalist depends on your location and can also change from year to year. For the 2007 program year, the location with the **lowest** qualifying score was Mississippi (204), so I'd say that yes, you have some studying to do. Good luck!
Yes, you do have a chance, but it depends on what state you live in to be in the cut off range. Normally, when your a sophmore, your score will be lower than when you're a senior by around 100-200 SAT points. Just work really hard over the summer, learn a few latin and greek roots, work in an SAT book, and you should be fine.
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