2024_NSMF
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Anonymous
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DC
St. Alban’s 5 NCS 2 GDS 1 Sidwell 8 Gonzaga 1 St. Anselm’s Abbey 1 Maret 1 WIS 1 Maryland Holton 5 Landon 1 Heights 1 Stone Ridge 1 Bullis 2 Virginia Potomac School 7 St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1 Basis McLean 3 Madeira 1 |
Anonymous
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DC cutoff - 223 -( same as last year)
Maryland cutoff - 221(-1 from last year) Virginia cutoff - 219 (-2 from last year) Range is 207-223 for 2024 I wonder how many kids there would be if the cutoff was 223 across the country. |
Anonymous
| I wonder how many states would have 0 NSMF if the cutoff was 223. They say it doens't mean anything but it really speaks to the discrepancy in educational standards across the country. West Virginia, New Mexico at the bottom of the list. |
Anonymous
Well, Sidwell having 16 last year was definitely a fluke. |
Anonymous
Which DC metro private school, besides Sidwell, has had 16 or more NMSF in the past 5 years? I’ll wait. |
Anonymous
Sidwell had 6 last year (class of 23). Maybe you’re thinking of the class of 22, when they had 15? |
Anonymous
| Not sure why everyone is getting a hard on over a handful of NMSFs at super selective and expensive private schools. It’s not that impressive. |
Anonymous
Sure, Jan. I bet all of your children were NMSF or Finalists. 
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Anonymous
Sidwell didn’t have 16 last year…you can look up the actual number on Reddit…I think I was actually fewer than 8. |
Anonymous
I’m impressed by the kids, but not by the schools. Likely the kids would have done as well anywhere. In fact the evidence suggests they do. For the class of 2022 the big privates (SFS, GDS, STA, NCS) had 21 NMSFs, and DCPS had none. For 2023 those privates had 14 and DCPS had 7. This year, those privates have 16 and DCPS has 8. The kids seem to have been redistributed by forces beyond their control, but they’re still hitting their numbers. |
Anonymous
Correction, in 2022 DCPS had 2. |
Anonymous
They weren’t. Just like the overwhelming majority of the kids at the fancy privates aren’t either. That’s my point. |
Anonymous
| And yet they still have outstanding college outcomes. |
Anonymous
| Ideaventions in Reston: 3 |
Anonymous
| The NMSF program always struck me as ridiculous. (And I qualified some decades ago.) You get an award for doing well…on a practice test? And you’ll probably do well on the actual SAT and go to a good college. Isn’t that recognition enough? NMSF is like a standardized test fetish. |