Where to move in montgomery county for good schools???

[Anonymous]

if u move to moco u shouldnt care wat school it is they are all good

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if u move to moco u shouldnt care wat school it is they are all good

Are you a Mo Co product?

[Anonymous]

A young one, I'm guessing. DC urban moms don't generally use text messaging to post here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But you would not deny that such a kudos might help in the admission's race to prestigoius institutions...after all such and accomplishment is simply a surrogate for academic performance in general?

Negative. Not a surrogate for academic performance. I was a national merit semifinalist, with a crappy high school GPA (bored out of my mind in high school and rather unmotivated) who barely had a B average at graduation and definitely wasn't in the top 25% of the class. I went to a large state university in the west.

The only advantage of the national merit status is that, at that time, there were schools that would admit students on the basis of test scores alone and not look at GPA. I don't think this is done today.

I don't think that the national merit status did anything for me in terms of academic admission.

Remember, high performance on tests like the PSAT and SAT are most strongly correlated with high family income and are not really well correlated with high high school academic performance nor with high college academic performance. This is one reason why a number of schools don't use these types of testing measures any more.

[Anonymous]

Low GPA sends a signal that a kid isn't focussed yet. A better test would be to compare the high GPA kids with NMSF status to the high GPA kids with worse SAT scores. There I think the NMSF status would make a difference.