DCPS National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists 2017
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Anonymous
| Why is Prep on the list? They're in Bethesda. |
Anonymous
Semifinalist is top 1/2% |
Anonymous
Sorry but why isn't this just taken nationwide instead of state by state? When I was a kid I was one and I took a special free prep class...along with many peers who qualified...doubt that exists here. Interesting to see DCPS compared alongside the likes of Sidwell though. |
Anonymous
Not quite. "Individual states have very different profiles because of the way that Semifinalists are allocated. A state receives an allocation of Semifinalists proportionate to the total number of high school juniors in a class. The number of students taking the PSAT is irrelevant. Utah has the lowest percentage of PSAT takers within its junior class, so it has the highest percentage (2.7%) of “entrants” — PSAT-taking juniors who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents — who received Commended Student or Semifinalist status. At the other end of the spectrum is Connecticut. Almost all of the state’s juniors take the PSAT, so only about 0.6% of students receive National Merit honors." https://www.compassprep.com/national-merit-semifinalists-by-state/ |
Anonymous
It's really Visitation. The original article said "Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School" and it was mis-transcribed. |
Anonymous
Prep is in Rockville plus they "forgot" to add Georgetwon Visitation and GZ |
Anonymous
| I am curious if anybody can post historic date of all the kids from DC that were nominated finalist |
Anonymous
Because half of the country won't get into the semifinals.. I.E. W Virginia, Alabama, Luisiana etc. |
Anonymous
Date or days? This is always hard to get because they only release names to media, and Wash Post rarely covers it. |
Anonymous
The Compass link above seems to have at least some of that data. |