National Merit Semifinalist Cut-off Scores for High School Class of 2018
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Anonymous
National Merit Semifinalist cutoffs are based on the State or District in which the School you attend is located, and not where the student actually lives. If your student attends a School located in DC (even if they love in Maryland or Virginia) they will need to have a PSAT index score of 223 or higher to be designated a NMSF. If their School is located on Maryland or Virginia (even if they live in DC) they will need to have a PSAT index score of 222 or higher to be a NMSF. A lot of 222 scorers at DC Schools will be wishing their Schools were in Maryland or Virginia where that score would have made them a NMSF. It is also why you cannot compare the number of NMSFs in DC Schools with the number of NMSFs in Maryland and Virginia Schools, when assessing strength. Although Maryland and Virginia Schools can be compared to each other. |
Anonymous
| Why is the cutoff so high? Is the new PSAT easier? Or is the pool more competitive? I made National Merit with a 223 a few years ago, but that was out of 240 maximum points; the max possible score now is 228. |
Anonymous
The October 2017 PSAT still had a maximum Index Score of 240 I believe. You should verify that. |
Anonymous
| No, the October 2017 PSAT had a maximum index score of 228. |
Anonymous
| When do the Schools notify their National Merit Semifinalists? |
Anonymous
| Our FCPS school notified students today. |
Anonymous
| Our DC school also notified its students. |
Anonymous
| 145 from TJ this year |
Anonymous
| Anyone hear anything from MD? My MCPS 18 DD makes the cutoff, but hasn't heard anything yet... |
Anonymous
MCPS has not made an announcement yet but Montgomery Blair announced 46 students of its students are NMSF. Mostly from the 100 magnet students in the grade. |
Anonymous
In Virginia the PSAT Index Score cutoff is 222. In total, 223 Fairfax County Public School students were named National Merit Semifinalists. http://www.insidenova.com/headlines/fairfax-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists/article_70df007e-9936-11e7-a3be-ab4f088e8b82.html This list does not include students who attend private schools in Fairfax County. Langley High School: Matthew Angles, Jordan Bell, Jean Cho, Shayan Golshani, Karina Holbrook, Dong Kim, Torrey Snyder, Sophia Song, Chenming Wang, Justin Yoo and Ashley Zhang. James Madison High School: Sudharsan Balasubramani, Claire Hogan, Allison Janowski, Revati Joshi, Samantha Lane, Benjamin Liu, Lauren McCormick and Shankar Radhakrishnan. George C. Marshall High School: Oliver Church, Donald Daniel, Mikayla Huffman, Isaac Karachunsky, Grant Martin, Holly Waters and Shaun Yu. McLean High School: Hannah Alexander, Royce Kang, Bradley Kim, Justin Kim, Keerthi Medicherla, Careniena Opem, Jillian Pincus, Siddarth Shankar, Philena Sun, Eli Wassertzug and Richard Yu. Oakton High School: Bruce Bui, Kira Buttrey, Maggie Chen, Ethan Huang, Courtney Tern and Jessie Yu. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Anjam Alam, Nadia Ali, Bharath Alladi, Seungwon Baek, Naman Baraya, Nicholas Begotka, Matthew Bergman, Saiteja Bevara, Saket Bikmal, Karthik Budharaju, My-Linh Budzien, Vincent Carter, Shreya Chappidi, Nathan Chen, Kelly Cho, Philip Cho, Soren Christensen, Quinn Ciccoretti, Margaret Covey, Rounak Das, Eric Deng, Leo Desruelle, Wonwook Do, Adelia Du, Katherine Du, William Gao, Kyle Gatesman, Joanna Goykhberg, Juhi Gudavalli, Kevin Guo, Tanvi Haldankar, Timothy Han, Caroline Hatcher, Emily He, William Hoganson, Grant Hollinger, Natalie Homnyom, Charles Huang, Minyoung Hwang, Amiti Jain, Paarth Jain, Sachin Jain, Christopher Jiang, Olivia Johann, Max Judish, Akshaj Kadaveru, Ajith Kanuri, Claude Karaki, Harriet Khang, Brandon Kim, Clara Kim, Hannah Kim, John Kim, Joseph Kim, Dylan Klapper, Kavya Kopparapu, Aneesh Kotnana, John Krause-Steinrauf, Srinidhi Krishnan, Minna Kuriakose, Justin Lasker, Kevin Le, Joshua Lee, Mia Lei, Robert Lei, Michael Li, Renee Li, Eric Lin, Linda Lin, Ethan Liu, Timothy Liu, Maxwell Lord, Anna Lulushi, Jessica Ly, Rachel Ma, Matthew Maribojoc, Madeleine Min, Jainam Modh, Varun Mosur, Anthony Murphy-Neilson, William Musk, Henna Nam, Liam Nolan, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, Wassim Omais, Richard Pan, Mihir Patel, Ashwin Pathi, Alex Peng, Jiaxuan Qin, Emily Quan, Rahul Rajan, Soham Ray, Akhil Rekulapelli, Uzma Rentia, Joshua Sahaya Arul, Varun Saraswathula, Nikhil Sardana, Aditya Sarkar, Nikita Saxena, Maxina Sheft, Edward Shen, Arpitha Shenoy, Aaditya Singh, Kamron Soldozy, William Spencer, Arvind Srinivasan, Tarunikha Sriram, Michael Stepniczka, Vandana Subramanian, William Sun, Sadhana Suri, Sarkis Ter Martirosyan, Neil Thistlethwaite, Frank Tian, Rohan Valluri, Niharika Vattikonda, Artemis Veizi, Keely Wan, Andrew Wang, Emily Wang, Franklyn Wang, Jade Wang, Lilian Wang, Yuyang Wang, Millan Weiman, James Xiao, Sherry Xie, Ruiran Xun, David Yan, Pranav Yanambakkam, Daniel Yang, Katherine Yang, Michael Yang, Wendy Yin, Lydia You, Grace Young, Anna Zhang, Charles Zhang, Dean Zhang, Justin Zhang, Christine Zhao, Naitian Zhou, Brian Zhu and Kevin Zou. |
Anonymous
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Fairfax County Public Schools NMSF Recipients (continued)
https://www.fcps.edu/index.php/news/two-hundred-twenty-three-fcps-students-named-2018-national-merit-semifinalists Chantilly High School: Adam Batori, Alvin Cao, Peter Liu, Benton Pelczynski, and Eli Rothleder. Centreville High School: Andrew Dettmer, Nathan Kim, Andrew Lee, Jenny Lee, and Christine Yu. Fairfax High School: David Fried. Herndon High School: Michael Barth. Lake Braddock Secondary School: Sinclaire Jones, Amanda Nguyen, Elizabeth Smith, and Eric Smith. Robinson Secondary School: Siddharth Bhatnagar, William Taft, and Julia Van Dyke. South Lakes High School: Rohan Chandra and Eshaan Sarup. Stuart High School: Vivian Tran. West Springfield High School: Genieva Beckstrand and Jonathon Ranieri. Westfield High School: Celi Johnson, Mason Joiner, Aditi Mittal, and Hayley Shankle. Woodson High School: Hyung Chang, Andrew Huh, Diego Pedulla-Smith, Kelly Ruffner, Morgan Ruffner, Kate Schneider, and Rachel Zhang. |
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Northern Virginia Private Schools National Merit Semifinalists:
Bishop Ireton: Braden Hoagland Madeira: Raegan Thornton Potomac: Madeline Cunnion, Tracey Miles, Jasmine Terrones Saint Stephens and Saint Agnes: John Dewhurst, Charlotte Fontham |
Anonymous
Same with my DCPS student. No news. |
Anonymous
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In DC the PSAT Index Score cutoff is 223.
National Cathedral School is the only DC school reporting information about its National Merit Semifinalists at this time. National Cathedral School (4): Alex Giannattasio, Anna May Mott, Brett Pearson, and Paulina Song https://twitter.com/NatCathedralSch?ref_src=twsrc%...Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://ncs.cathedral.org/page/news-detail?pk=1122755 |