in order to be eligible, students must be at least one-quarter hispanic. each year the nhrp identifies approximately 7,000 of the highest-scoring students from a nationwide total of 250,000 high school juniors who took the psat/nmsqt and designated themselves as hispanic, as well as approximately 200 of the top scoring paa students from puerto rico. the nationwide selection also includes students from puerto rico, u.s. virgin islands, guam, and u.s. citizens attending international and apo schools.