Where do you think Malia Obama will enroll?

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Anonymous wrote:Probably wasn't too close to perfect or she would have scored highly enough on the PSAT to be a National Merit Semifinalist

This is just dumb. I know lots of kids - my own included - who did well on the PSAT's (commended), but even better on the SATs, including perfect scores. I also know kids were NMSF and didn't do as well on the SATs.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, but it honestly has nothing to do with Malia. She will get into every school to which she applies. I just wonder if she will apply early to end all the speculation.

No doubt. Honestly, do kids of important politicians who are at least reasonably smart ever get rejected from college?

I think every college has a short list of kids they do not even need to discuss and Malia is on top of those lists this year. I doubt she bothered much with SAT prep because it's kind of a worthless (and expensive) exercise if you do not need good scores to get into college. There are much better ways to spend time than prepping for standardized tests. The rest of our kids have to chase the perfect scores because we don't have such a great hook.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, but it honestly has nothing to do with Malia. She will get into every school to which she applies. I just wonder if she will apply early to end all the speculation.

The only real question is what various schools will do to be her first choice.

[Anonymous]

Obama's advice to his daughter (per People magazine interview) was to be open to new things and not go to school with your high school friends.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, but it honestly has nothing to do with Malia. She will get into every school to which she applies. I just wonder if she will apply early to end all the speculation.

No doubt. Honestly, do kids of important politicians who are at least reasonably smart ever get rejected from college?

it depends where. I wouldn't be surprised if a place like caltech did just to say 'look at us'.

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Anonymous wrote:Obama's advice to his daughter (per People magazine interview) was to be open to new things and not go to school with your high school friends.

The press stories are that she is visiting colleges with her high school friends.

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Yes, but her dad is encouraging her to chart her own path.

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Brown is the only school she has visited twice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably wasn't too close to perfect or she would have scored highly enough on the PSAT to be a National Merit Semifinalist

This is just dumb. I know lots of kids - my own included - who did well on the PSAT's (commended), but even better on the SATs, including perfect scores. I also know kids were NMSF and didn't do as well on the SATs.

+1

My son did ok on the PSATs and got perfect SAT scores. Not a NMSF.

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Really a 2400? How many sittings? And where did he go to college?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably wasn't too close to perfect or she would have scored highly enough on the PSAT to be a National Merit Semifinalist

This is just dumb. I know lots of kids - my own included - who did well on the PSAT's (commended), but even better on the SATs, including perfect scores. I also know kids were NMSF and didn't do as well on the SATs.

+1

My son did ok on the PSATs and got perfect SAT scores. Not a NMSF.

Exact same experience for my daughter. Missed NMSF but got 2380 on SATs. Also killed subject-matter SATs. For most of the selective colleges mentioned on this board, NMSF status counts for bupkis by itself.

[Anonymous]

And there are people who do really well on the PSAT and not quite as well on the SAT. It doesn't really matter. Most kids who want to go to the schools on Malia's list need to be in 99th percentile for testing. In my experience, it doesn't much matter whether you are 2280 or 2380 -- once you hit 99th percentile, they focus on other aspects of the application.

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Anonymous wrote:And there are people who do really well on the PSAT and not quite as well on the SAT. It doesn't really matter. Most kids who want to go to the schools on Malia's list need to be in 99th percentile for testing. In my experience, it doesn't much matter whether you are 2280 or 2380 -- once you hit 99th percentile, they focus on other aspects of the application.

PP here. I agree. In no way was I suggesting that a 99.97 percentile result is any different than 98.5 percentile. It is a statistically insignificant difference, and the other stuff that you bring to the table matters way more than this small difference. I was, however, taking issue with an earlier poster who suggested that not having achieved NMSF status somehow put you out of the running for the most competitive schools.

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Anonymous wrote:So funny how you worded it "enroll at" rather than "apply to"

We may never know where she applies, but we will definitely know where she enrolls. Makes sense to me.

It's the "at" that is objectionable. Your loving is correct but your grammar is not.

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Logic ^^^