National Merit Finalists 2024 Maryland. 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®. The students are among 43 high school seniors in maryland to be selected in the latest group of national merit scholarship program recipients.
Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2025 program by taking the 2023 preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test,. Approximately half of the finalists will be merit scholarship ® winners (merit scholar ® awardees).