2024_NSMF
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Anonymous
I think that these numbers are really impressive! |
Anonymous
Fluke year because many students did not know you could send in an SAT score and given that you could take that multiple times if you are wealthy and can afford it I would expect some private schools that heavily advertised this to do better than others. https://www.milton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Alternate-Entry-2022-NMSP.pdf Still a great outcome in other years. |
Anonymous
| What happened with GDS? Only 1? |
Anonymous
While this is true, most kids at Sidwell in class of 2022 actually took the PSAT on site at Sidwell. My kid did and is one of the 16. If you took it on site at Sidwell, alternate entry did not apply. I am embarrassed to admit we did not know about alternate entry at the time. It was a strong class IMHO. |
Anonymous
| SJC had 2. |
Anonymous
What college your kid attends? |
Anonymous
Correction: Sidwell’s class of 2022 had 16 NMSF. https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/2022-national-merit-semifinalists-named-washington-dc |
Anonymous
| 2022, the year with the asterisk. |
Anonymous
How did the other DC private schools do in 2022? Glad you asked. In the “year with the asterisk” GDS, Maret, NCS, and STA did not have 16 NMSF COMBINED. But I’m sure you have an excuse for that too. Sidwell gets hated on everyday in this forum. |
Anonymous
I wasn't hating on anyone. 2022 was different. |
Anonymous
More likely because each of these areas is so small, they would be allotted an unfairly small number of semifinalists under the general formula. They distribute semifinalists proportionally to states based on the number of graduating students in the state. California gets 13% of the 16,000 semifinalists because it produces approximately 13% of high school graduates nationally. CA is allotted the highest number of semifinalists., not because they did better, but because they have more high school seniors. https://www.compassprep.com/psat-national-merit-faq/ DC's percentage of national graduates is usually ~0.1%, which would allot them only a tiny fraction of the 16,000 NMSFs, about 16-22 students. By using the highest state's cut off, DC usually ends up with 30-50+ semifinalists. The fact that using the highest state cut off gives DC more semi-finalists than 0.1% of 16,000 suggests that DC's actual cut off would be higher than it is if it were based on the cut score they would have to use to limit it to only 16 semifinalists. An alternative could have been to use the commended score (lowest score of the top 50,000 students), which is the minimum selection score. No state can have a lower semifinalist cut score (four states have this as the semifinalist score this year, even if that means they won't get their full allotment of semifinalists). But DC would have much too large of a percentage of semifinalists for its size if the commended score were used, because usually DC has around 150-200 commended students (1.25% of the 16,000 instead of the 0.1% under the formula). Also, to the PP who said "it's not because this cohort of DC testers personally scored as the highest in the country," you are correct about the "because" part, but this cohort in fact did personally score the highest in the country, and they do every year. Otherwise, they couldn't be semifinalists. |
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Anonymous
Looks like Potomac and Sidwell are the clear winners here....nobody else even close...their student sizes aren't that much differnet with the exception of maybe Basis |
Anonymous
STA and Sidwell are tied. STA: 5/70 = 6% Sidwell: 8/125 = 6% Potomac doesn't count because the cut-off in VA is so much lower. It's like getting an extra 10 questions wrong. |
Anonymous
You shouldn’t compare VA & MD privates to DC privates. They both have a lower cutoff score than DC. |