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

[Anonymous]

I assume pp works at a school that has access to the full list prior to the press release. The Baltimore numbers are wacky compared to historical numbers but assume there can be wide deviations from the norm in any given year.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Not Blair parent but I highly doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Principals have the Book.

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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.

So, for RM magnet, 4 out of 10 kids are NMSF? WHF?

[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.

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.

maryland is smarter than va. Maryland is in the class of NJ, MA, NY, CA, CT when it comes to education.

Imagine if MD, NY, NJ, CT transplants didn't move to VA - it would be scoring below 210, like Wyoming or Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:
"MCPS are reporting a 21 point drop in this year's SAT, from 1650 to 1629, attributing the drop to the "national trend." Arlington's scores went up 27 points, and are now at 1680. Arlington is killing it compared to MCPS."


"MCPS is in decline. That's no news... Anyone really surprised by the drop?"

[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.

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.

maryland is smarter than va. Maryland is in the class of NJ, MA, NY, CA, CT when it comes to education.

Imagine if MD, NY, NJ, CT transplants didn't move to VA - it would be scoring below 210, like Wyoming or Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:
"MCPS are reporting a 21 point drop in this year's SAT, from 1650 to 1629, attributing the drop to the "national trend." Arlington's scores went up 27 points, and are now at 1680. Arlington is killing it compared to MCPS."

"MCPS is in decline. That's no news... Anyone really surprised by the drop?"

Yeah, but the average Asian only scores 1523 on the SATs so don't expect to see many top scorers like in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Ouch. Seems to go up 2 points every year.

[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.

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.

maryland is smarter than va. Maryland is in the class of NJ, MA, NY, CA, CT when it comes to education.

Imagine if MD, NY, NJ, CT transplants didn't move to VA - it would be scoring below 210, like Wyoming or Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:
"MCPS are reporting a 21 point drop in this year's SAT, from 1650 to 1629, attributing the drop to the "national trend." Arlington's scores went up 27 points, and are now at 1680. Arlington is killing it compared to MCPS."

"MCPS is in decline. That's no news... Anyone really surprised by the drop?"

Yeah, but the average Asian only scores 1523 on the SATs so don't expect to see many top scorers like in MCPS.

Yeah, but too bad there are more top scores from fcps than mcps.

[Anonymous]

I'm the "MCPS is in decline" poster... I don't think FCPS is any better shape than MCPS. Big school districts are all in decline. Howard in MD or Loudoun in VA are better choices if you have small kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "MCPS is in decline" poster... I don't think FCPS is any better shape than MCPS. Big school districts are all in decline. Howard in MD or Loudoun in VA are better choices if you have small kids.

Maybe you mean they (fairfax/montgomery) are too "diverse". Aren't the posters on here always screaming we need more "diversity" in schools and colleges? Practice what you preach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "MCPS is in decline" poster... I don't think FCPS is any better shape than MCPS. Big school districts are all in decline. Howard in MD or Loudoun in VA are better choices if you have small kids.

Yeah, right, if you can't afford one of the nicer areas in Montgomery or Fairfax and are prepared to have a terrible commute. And even with the big jump in their scores, the three main Arlington schools have scores lower than the top schools in Montgomery and Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume pp works at a school that has access to the full list prior to the press release. The Baltimore numbers are wacky compared to historical numbers but assume there can be wide deviations from the norm in any given year.

Not sure I'd call Baltimore numbers wacky - althought Gilman is definitely lower than usual, and so are Park and Bryn Mawr (not to mention Friends with 0), and it's a good year for St. Paul's/SPSG - but these all seem with 2 or 3 of the usual tallies. I guess Gilman is actually pretty far from its usual number. I've heard that this year's senior class at Gilman isn't the greatest and that St. Paul's senior class is good, so maybe the results of the merit aid that St. Paul's started offering for incoming 9th graders about five years ago is starting to show up. Or maybe it's a one-year aberration and next year Gilman will be back up to a half-dozen and St. Paul's will have zero.

[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.

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.

maryland is smarter than va. Maryland is in the class of NJ, MA, NY, CA, CT when it comes to education.

Imagine if MD, NY, NJ, CT transplants didn't move to VA - it would be scoring below 210, like Wyoming or Wisconsin.

Anonymous wrote:
"MCPS are reporting a 21 point drop in this year's SAT, from 1650 to 1629, attributing the drop to the "national trend." Arlington's scores went up 27 points, and are now at 1680. Arlington is killing it compared to MCPS."

"MCPS is in decline. That's no news... Anyone really surprised by the drop?"

Asians have the highest scores of all group!

Yeah, but the average Asian only scores 1523 on the SATs so don't expect to see many top scorers like in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

What is PSAT cut off score for Pennsylvania

[Anonymous]

PA cutoff is 217