Merit semi-finalists announced

[Anonymous]

When do the commended get notified?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So creepy to announce people's SAT scores publicly like this.

Agree. --a parent with a kid on this list

Congratulations to your student! This list of semi-finalists is always made public.

Another parent, sort of glad for this list since our school still hasn't notified the kids who got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When do the commended get notified?

No one cares about Commended in MoCo.
It's NMSF or bust!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the link it says they took the 2022 test. Is this a typo? Doesn't the list contain current seniors so they would have taken the test junor year or 2023 not 2022?

I think it's:

2023 in oct - juniors take test
2024 in sept - semifinalists are announced and can apply for to be a scholar
2025 - finalists and scholars announced

I think this is why they call it the 2025 program, because any awards are made at that time when the kids are going to college so the program year corresponds to the graduation year.

Don’t they usually take it in sophomore year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the link it says they took the 2022 test. Is this a typo? Doesn't the list contain current seniors so they would have taken the test junor year or 2023 not 2022?

I think it's:

2023 in oct - juniors take test
2024 in sept - semifinalists are announced and can apply for to be a scholar
2025 - finalists and scholars announced

I think this is why they call it the 2025 program, because any awards are made at that time when the kids are going to college so the program year corresponds to the graduation year.

Don’t they usually take it in sophomore year?

only 11th grade scores count towards national merit

[Anonymous]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/0/1227738.page#28336843

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When do the commended get notified?

No one cares about Commended in MoCo.
It's NMSF or bust!

NP. Do you know the answer?

[Anonymous]

You could probably find the date on National Merit Corp's website, but the commended cutoff this year is 208, and it doesn't vary among the states. So anyone with that score will be commended whenever the official notice comes out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When do the commended get notified?

No one cares about Commended in MoCo.
It's NMSF or bust!

NP. Do you know the answer?

Like I said, no one cares about Commended in MoCo.
Nobody bothers to look for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So creepy to announce people's SAT scores publicly like this.

Agree. --a parent with a kid on this list

In my town, in parent times, the NMSF kids always were photographed and put in the local paper.

Today, if newspapers are still around to write the articles, that info will be Googleable and digitally archived.

Going back further, I actually found, in a digitized city newspaper, the perfect weekly spelling test results for a long ago great aunt and cousin from the 1910s.

People have been publicizing this stuff for a long time.

Achieve and get famous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mostly "Asian" names.
Congrats to the lone homeschooler!

There would be more homeschoolers, but lots of kids here don't take the PSAT because their area MCPS high school hassles them about registering. Most of us don't push it for an optional test and save the battles for APs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mostly "Asian" names.
Congrats to the lone homeschooler!

There would be more homeschoolers, but lots of kids here don't take the PSAT because their area MCPS high school hassles them about registering. Most of us don't push it for an optional test and save the battles for APs.

There's always something to contest with mcps. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So creepy to announce people's SAT scores publicly like this.

Agree. --a parent with a kid on this list

In my town, in parent times, the NMSF kids always were photographed and put in the local paper.

Today, if newspapers are still around to write the articles, that info will be Googleable and digitally archived.

Going back further, I actually found, in a digitized city newspaper, the perfect weekly spelling test results for a long ago great aunt and cousin from the 1910s.

People have been publicizing this stuff for a long time.

Achieve and get famous!

Wonder what that aunt and cousin would say of the horrendous spelling these days. And auto correct, online spelling edits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the link it says they took the 2022 test. Is this a typo? Doesn't the list contain current seniors so they would have taken the test junor year or 2023 not 2022?

I think it's:

2023 in oct - juniors take test
2024 in sept - semifinalists are announced and can apply for to be a scholar
2025 - finalists and scholars announced

I think this is why they call it the 2025 program, because any awards are made at that time when the kids are going to college so the program year corresponds to the graduation year.

Don’t they usually take it in sophomore year?

only 11th grade scores count towards national merit

In that case why do all 10th graders take it in MCPS and optional for 11th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the link it says they took the 2022 test. Is this a typo? Doesn't the list contain current seniors so they would have taken the test junor year or 2023 not 2022?

I think it's:

2023 in oct - juniors take test
2024 in sept - semifinalists are announced and can apply for to be a scholar
2025 - finalists and scholars announced

I think this is why they call it the 2025 program, because any awards are made at that time when the kids are going to college so the program year corresponds to the graduation year.

Don’t they usually take it in sophomore year?

only 11th grade scores count towards national merit

In that case why do all 10th graders take it in MCPS and optional for 11th?

Because the PSAT is the prep test for the real thing: the SAT