NMSC will notify Semifinalists of their standing and send scholarship application materials to them through their high schools in September 2024. Their names will be sent to regionally accredited four-year U.S. colleges and universities and released to local news media for public announcement in mid-September.
https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/interior.aspx?sid=1758&gid=2&pgid=1881#:~:text=NMSC%20will%20notify%20Semifinalists%20of,public%20announcement%20in%20mid%2DSeptember.