When are NMSF announced?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it prestigious to be a semi-finalist, or only if you get to the finals? Can this be listed on CommonApp

Yes it's decently prestigious to be a semi-finalist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it prestigious to be a semi-finalist, or only if you get to the finals? Can this be listed on CommonApp

Yes it's decently prestigious to be a semi-finalist.

Thank you - Can this be included in Common App, and if so which section

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's just kids who are from Alexandria area, you nitwits! FCPS hasn't put out anything yet.

This Patch article claims to list a bunch more Fairfax County schools, public and private:
https://patch.com/virginia/vienna/seniors-vienna-schools-named-national-merit-semifinalists

The list is very likely accurate. I think the National Merit people sent out the lists of names to schools and the press last week, and the press is supposed to "embargo" them until today. So unless there's some kind of editing screw-up, these would be copies of the official lists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it prestigious to be a semi-finalist, or only if you get to the finals? Can this be listed on CommonApp

Yes it's decently prestigious to be a semi-finalist.

Thank you - Can this be included in Common App, and if so which section

Honors and awards, national level.

[Anonymous]

Based on Patch information:

TJ 81
Langley 19
McLean 16
Oakton 11
Chantilly 10
Lake Braddock 9
Madison 9
South Lakes 6
Woodson 6
Marshall 5
Fairfax 4
Robinson 4
Centreville 3
Westfield 3
West Springfield 3
Edison 2
Hayfield 1
Herndon 1
West Potomac 1
Annandale 0
Falls Church 0
Justice 0
Lewis 0
Mount Vernon 0
South County 0

The number of TJ NMSF was apparently down by over half from last year (from 165 to 81), and the number of NMSFs from other schools only went up by 16 (from 99 to 115). Good luck to Reid trying to spin this as a success story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on Patch information:

TJ 81
Langley 19
McLean 16
Oakton 11
Chantilly 10
Lake Braddock 9
Madison 9
South Lakes 6
Woodson 6
Marshall 5
Fairfax 4
Robinson 4
Centreville 3
Westfield 3
West Springfield 3
Edison 2
Hayfield 1
Herndon 1
West Potomac 1
Annandale 0
Falls Church 0
Justice 0
Lewis 0
Mount Vernon 0
South County 0

The number of TJ NMSF was apparently down by over half from last year (from 165 to 81), and the number of NMSFs from other schools only went up by 16 (from 99 to 115). Good luck to Reid trying to spin this as a success story.

I only see 3 for South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on Patch information:

TJ 81
Langley 19
McLean 16
Oakton 11
Chantilly 10
Lake Braddock 9
Madison 9
South Lakes 6
Woodson 6
Marshall 5
Fairfax 4
Robinson 4
Centreville 3
Westfield 3
West Springfield 3
Edison 2
Hayfield 1
Herndon 1
West Potomac 1
Annandale 0
Falls Church 0
Justice 0
Lewis 0
Mount Vernon 0
South County 0

The number of TJ NMSF was apparently down by over half from last year (from 165 to 81), and the number of NMSFs from other schools only went up by 16 (from 99 to 115). Good luck to Reid trying to spin this as a success story.

I only see 3 for South Lakes.

Right you are:

TJ 81
Langley 19
McLean 16
Oakton 11
Chantilly 10
Lake Braddock 9
Madison 9
Woodson 6
Marshall 5
Fairfax 4
Robinson 4
Centreville 3
South Lakes 3
Westfield 3
West Springfield 3
Edison 2
Hayfield 1
Herndon 1
West Potomac 1
Annandale 0
Falls Church 0
Justice 0
Lewis 0
Mount Vernon 0
South County 0

[Anonymous]

This looks like a FCPS fail not just TJ. Maybe 1/2 of those 16 students from other schools might have been admitted to TJ. In general, the quality of FCPS education has gone down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This looks like a FCPS fail not just TJ. Maybe 1/2 of those 16 students from other schools might have been admitted to TJ. In general, the quality of FCPS education has gone down.

But if you look at the private school list, those don't seem to be particularly amazing either.

It has historically only been TJ that really stuck out.

[Anonymous]

I see it as a TJ fail. The other schools in fcps didn't see their number decreased, only Tj and by half.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This looks like a FCPS fail not just TJ. Maybe 1/2 of those 16 students from other schools might have been admitted to TJ. In general, the quality of FCPS education has gone down.

Nah, the pandemic took a toll but things will eventually return to normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see it as a TJ fail. The other schools in fcps didn't see their number decreased, only Tj and by half.

That's odd since TJ is doing orders of magnitude better than these other schools. You seem confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see it as a TJ fail. The other schools in fcps didn't see their number decreased, only Tj and by half.

But the schools in stronger areas *should* have had a much larger number of kids capable of making NMSF, since the switch in TJ admissions w/ its geographic quotas. If the base school numbers didn't go up by a lot, it does suggest a county-wide problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see it as a TJ fail. The other schools in fcps didn't see their number decreased, only Tj and by half.

But the schools in stronger areas *should* have had a much larger number of kids capable of making NMSF, since the switch in TJ admissions w/ its geographic quotas. If the base school numbers didn't go up by a lot, it does suggest a county-wide problem.

The base school numbers went up slightly but the TJ numbers plummeted = big net decline for FCPS.

We told you this was coming. This school board and its predecessor have made a hash of everything.

[Anonymous]

They also had a very low cutoff score last year.