National Merit Semifinalist Cut-off Scores for High School Class of 2016

[Anonymous]

Sidwell parent here. Not MO.
My child is a lifer - predates the Obamas at SFS by 7 years.

[Anonymous]

Should have been more clear. I am not Michelle. I don't know whether the first daughter is one of the 16.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should have been more clear. I am not Michelle. I don't know whether the first daughter is one of the 16.

Mr. President then?

[Anonymous]

There's now a full list of state cut-off scores posted on College Confidential, though we obviously do not know if it's legit.

Someone also posted that the SAT qualifying score has gone up to 2250, but nobody over there is buying that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's now a full list of state cut-off scores posted on College Confidential, though we obviously do not know if it's legit.

Someone also posted that the SAT qualifying score has gone up to 2250, but nobody over there is buying that.

no way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet all of 41 out of 100 kids are magnet kids for Blair and RM. Crazy numbers.

Probably a few of the 41 Blair kids are CAP. I'm guessing my magnet kid made it with a 224; he's magnet but Blair is our home school.

Not so crazy. Blair magnet has about 100 kids, CAP program has about 90 kids so that would be 41 out of 190. There might be few non magnet/non-CAP NMSF from general ed students from Blair as well. If so, the actual number would be 30+ out of 190. Assuming 36 out of 190, that is about 19% for the magnet program at Blair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the the list

Here are some tallies:

DC
Georgetown Day - 3
Georgetown Visitation - 1
Maret - 3
NCS - 4
Sidwell - 16
St Albans - 6
St. John's - 4
Wash International - 2
Woodrow Wilson - 2

VA
TJ - 163
Potomac - 5

MARYLAND
BCC - 6
Holton Arms - 2
Walter Johnson - 2
Walt Whitman - 9
Churchill - 8
Montgomery - 41
Wootton - 10
Blair - 41

BALTIMORE
Bryn Mawr - 2
Calvert Hall - 1
Gilman - 2
RPCS - 2
Park - 1
St. Paul's - 2
SPSG - 2
McDonogh - 3
Loyola - 3

What's your source for the list? They haven't issued the press releases for the Class of 2016 yet. And, these numbers don't match last year's either.

This list is bogus....it has not been released by the respective schools prior to Labor Day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the the list

Here are some tallies:

DC
Georgetown Day - 3
Georgetown Visitation - 1
Maret - 3
NCS - 4
Sidwell - 16
St Albans - 6
St. John's - 4
Wash International - 2
Woodrow Wilson - 2

VA
TJ - 163
Potomac - 5

MARYLAND
BCC - 6
Holton Arms - 2
Walter Johnson - 2
Walt Whitman - 9
Churchill - 8
Montgomery - 41
Wootton - 10
Blair - 41

BALTIMORE
Bryn Mawr - 2
Calvert Hall - 1
Gilman - 2
RPCS - 2
Park - 1
St. Paul's - 2
SPSG - 2
McDonogh - 3
Loyola - 3

What's your source for the list? They haven't issued the press releases for the Class of 2016 yet. And, these numbers don't match last year's either.

This list is bogus....it has not been released by the respective schools prior to Labor Day.

Many posters think this looks legit.

[Anonymous]

My source for the list is the list.

Not sure why you think I'd spend time making up fake totals and responding to specific requests with fake numbers. I've never even heard of some of those Howard County schools - as evidenced by my previous mistaken inclusion of a Montgomery County school in the list of HoCo schools I provided at someone's request.

But go ahead and wait for confirmation next week. I just wanted to share what I had access to but it doesn't matter to me whether you believe it or not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet all of 41 out of 100 kids are magnet kids for Blair and RM. Crazy numbers.

Probably a few of the 41 Blair kids are CAP. I'm guessing my magnet kid made it with a 224; he's magnet but Blair is our home school.

Not so crazy. Blair magnet has about 100 kids, CAP program has about 90 kids so that would be 41 out of 190. There might be few non magnet/non-CAP NMSF from general ed students from Blair as well. If so, the actual number would be 30+ out of 190. Assuming 36 out of 190, that is about 19% for the magnet program at Blair.

41 at Blair + 41 at Richard Montgomery = 82 kids --- 41 at each program ---

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet all of 41 out of 100 kids are magnet kids for Blair and RM. Crazy numbers.

Probably a few of the 41 Blair kids are CAP. I'm guessing my magnet kid made it with a 224; he's magnet but Blair is our home school.

Not so crazy. Blair magnet has about 100 kids, CAP program has about 90 kids so that would be 41 out of 190. There might be few non magnet/non-CAP NMSF from general ed students from Blair as well. If so, the actual number would be 30+ out of 190. Assuming 36 out of 190, that is about 19% for the magnet program at Blair.

Obviously, no one knows yet but last year's NMSF were all from math and Sci program i think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet all of 41 out of 100 kids are magnet kids for Blair and RM. Crazy numbers.

Probably a few of the 41 Blair kids are CAP. I'm guessing my magnet kid made it with a 224; he's magnet but Blair is our home school.

Not so crazy. Blair magnet has about 100 kids, CAP program has about 90 kids so that would be 41 out of 190. There might be few non magnet/non-CAP NMSF from general ed students from Blair as well. If so, the actual number would be 30+ out of 190. Assuming 36 out of 190, that is about 19% for the magnet program at Blair.

41 at Blair + 41 at Richard Montgomery = 82 kids --- 41 at each program ---

You mean 41 from each school not a program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet all of 41 out of 100 kids are magnet kids for Blair and RM. Crazy numbers.

Probably a few of the 41 Blair kids are CAP. I'm guessing my magnet kid made it with a 224; he's magnet but Blair is our home school.

Not so crazy. Blair magnet has about 100 kids, CAP program has about 90 kids so that would be 41 out of 190. There might be few non magnet/non-CAP NMSF from general ed students from Blair as well. If so, the actual number would be 30+ out of 190. Assuming 36 out of 190, that is about 19% for the magnet program at Blair.

41 at Blair + 41 at Richard Montgomery = 82 kids --- 41 at each program ---

You mean 41 from each school not a program.

At least for RM, all of the winners are usually from the program. For example, last year's 34 kids are all from the IB program (out of ~100 kids). I suspect the same this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My source for the list is the list.

Not sure why you think I'd spend time making up fake totals and responding to specific requests with fake numbers. I've never even heard of some of those Howard County schools - as evidenced by my previous mistaken inclusion of a Montgomery County school in the list of HoCo schools I provided at someone's request.

But go ahead and wait for confirmation next week. I just wanted to share what I had access to but it doesn't matter to me whether you believe it or not

I have no doubt PP is legit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet all of 41 out of 100 kids are magnet kids for Blair and RM. Crazy numbers.

It's amazing actually. 41/100 of the Blair magnet kids and 41/100 of the Richard Montgomery IB kids- wow! Take that TJ! 41 percent of the kids at TJ are not NMSF and that is with the MCPS kids needing HIGHER scores to get it due to the higher cutoff. So sick of hearing TJ is number one and MCPS magnet kids have to attend a low SES school.

It looks like Blair magnet program parents have inferiority complex with TJ.