national merit semifinalists announced - link to area schools
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Anonymous
| Could they have left out Potomac School (Va.)? Seems odd they would have nobody. |
Anonymous
| Potomac had 1 semifinalist. |
Anonymous
| Keeping true form it looks like at least half of the TJ class is a NMSF again. |
Anonymous
It would be a surprise if that weren't the case. NMSF are the top 1/2% of PSAT takers. TJ students are probably the top 1% based on the admissions test they took 2-3 years earlier. I guess that also explains why the other Fairfax County schools have such low numbers - the top students/test takers have all been funneled to TJ. |
Anonymous
| None from St. Stephen's? |
Anonymous
It's about 30% of the class, not 50%. PP's reasons are dead on, I think. |
Anonymous
| How big is the class? Closer to 50 percent than 30 percent it appears. |
Anonymous
| The Market School! |
Anonymous
| Is this really a big deal? I was a finalist and it never seemed that important. Of course that was 20 years ago. |
Anonymous
| Obviously not a big deal since 1/2 a TJ graduating class typically garners this age-old kudos! |
Anonymous
| No, it's never been even close to half the class at TJ. There are about 450 in each TJ class. Still an impressive number and all kids who earn SF status should be proud. |
Anonymous
I wonder how the other TJ students did and how many NMSF were rejected in the TJ admissions process. There have been top math students who didn't get into TJ. That's a shame since no other high schools offer the courses for those students. |
Anonymous
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Here are the cutoff scores from 2010.
DC's always seems to have the highest, with Massachusetts. I wonder what Virginia having a higher cutoff would do to the numbers. Ditto Maryland. District of Columbia 223 Maryland 220 Massachusetts 223 Virginia 218 International 223 New England Boarding Schools |
Anonymous
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Ha I cut off the cutoff score for NE boarding schools: 223.
Multiple sources, online. |