national merit scholar-ship

National Merit Scholarship

noun
one of some 6000 college scholarships awarded annually since 1956, by the nonprofit, grant-supported National Merit Scholarship corporation, to high-school students (National Merit Scholars) on the basis of scholastic record, personal character, and score on a test administered nationally.
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