National Merit Semifinalists 2024
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Anonymous
In the same boat; no news anywhere about and DC semifinalists. |
Anonymous
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Each school is sent a paper book with all names. Someone needs to get this copy and photograph the DC page. I think this is what happened last year--it was eventually posted to Reddit.
Then the individual schools generally put their own results on social media sometime in the next week(s). |
Anonymous
That doesn't make sense. DC has more population than several states, plus its private schools import quite a chunk of students. |
Anonymous
| Go Holton! |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Thanks for finding the Fairfax County schools! Random commentary: Ideaventions Academy of Math and Science (2) - These guys are a tiny school, and for a second year in a row, fully half of their graduating class is NMSF. As I said last year, it's very hard to tell the value add of the school, but there is no question that Ideaventions can attract incredibly strong students. Especially given that geographic quotas now in place at TJ, this is one of the schools at which Nysmith/Rachel Carson parents probably should look. Dominion Christian School (1) - The classics pay off. Pinnacle Academy (1) - Gulen gulets results. Trinity Christian (1) - I think this is at least the third year in a row TC has an NMSF recipient. New School of Northern Virginia (1) - New School to the list. Flint Hill (2) - Slipped from last year's great-for-them results, but as always, hard to tell from NMSF what's going on at a school -- too much randomness. Basis Independent McLean (4) - Based. Looks like ~17% of the class this year. Potomac (9) - The usual Fairfax County private champion. Big class, very smart students (~8% of the class); they'll continue to generate the raw numbers. |
Anonymous
Wow, only 1 kid from JR, that’s surprising! |
Anonymous
For DC it looks like less than 50 kids? SFS 11 GDS 7 STA 6 Walls 6 NCS 3 Basis 3 WIS 2 St John’s 2 Latin 2 Maret 1 Field 1 JR 1 Gonzaga 1 |
Anonymous
Sidwell leads every year. What are they doing to prep these kids? |
Anonymous
One student out of 500+ seniors?!?Embarrassing! 😳 |
Anonymous
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Lots of kids on that list from our school who had extra time. many other kids would be on it if they had twice the time to complete the PSAT (but magically never had to use their extra time for other school exams)
Just saying. |
Anonymous
Not surprising - they had a cluster last year when the administered the exam. |
Anonymous
They don't pay the $8k for a neuropsych exam. Sorry for being salty but some of these results are a joke. Their parents bought them. Off my soap box but there are kids who never, not once used their accommodation for in-school work but kept it active from early childhood and whipped it out for the PSAT (and then SAT). many of the smartest kids from our school are not on the list. the cheaters are. Others are of course legit. |
Anonymous
They have a small class I believe. |
Anonymous
Interesting. At the top end in Texas you have private schools with 20-30% of their graduating class earning NMSF. I’m guessing the discrepancy has to do with distribution of student bodies among public/private schools among other things. |