Announcing National Merit Semi-Finalists

[Anonymous]

Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:POST THE LIST!!!

GO FIND IT!

LMGTFY--here's the results for DC privates. Other DCUM fora (college, DCPS, MCPS, FCPS) have active discussions on this topic and lists by state.

https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists

Sidwell-11
GDS-8
St Albans-7
NCS-4
Maret-2
Georgetown Visitation-1
St John's-1

NP. What do the three-digit numbers before each student’s name in those lists in the Patch article mean?

It means nothing because they have been out of college for 2 year now.

I realize it’s an old list, I was just wondering the meaning of the numbers in general. There seems to be no explanation for them in the article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:POST THE LIST!!!

GO FIND IT!

LMGTFY--here's the results for DC privates. Other DCUM fora (college, DCPS, MCPS, FCPS) have active discussions on this topic and lists by state.

https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists

Sidwell-11
GDS-8
St Albans-7
NCS-4
Maret-2
Georgetown Visitation-1
St John's-1

NP. What do the three-digit numbers before each student’s name in those lists in the Patch article mean?

It means nothing because they have been out of college for 2 year now.

I realize it’s an old list, I was just wondering the meaning of the numbers in general. There seems to be no explanation for them in the article.

I believe it’s a code for intended major. It’s just something they used to have kids bubble in on the PSAT before they started.

[Anonymous]

Why does it always take so long to get DC's list. I know that Georgetown Patch used to publish it in previous years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

It's the top 1% of scorers per state. Except for DC which gets screwed where students have to earn the score of whatever the top scoring state is (225 in NJ and MA this year).

[Anonymous]

Blair 36
TJ 113

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

It's the top 1% of scorers per state. Except for DC which gets screwed where students have to earn the score of whatever the top scoring state is (225 in NJ and MA this year).

I meant what percentages of entire class are NMSF ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

It's the top 1% of scorers per state. Except for DC which gets screwed where students have to earn the score of whatever the top scoring state is (225 in NJ and MA this year).

I meant what percentages of entire class are NMSF ?

What are you talking about? Which school's entire class? Read the lists and you can see. As PP mentioned, it's 1% of the top scorers per state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your school announce the names of National Merit Semi-Finalists on its website or in a press release or social media? MCPS posts the list of names on its website. What do private schools normally do? Do they prefer not to post since NMSF isn’t as big of an accomplishment in a private school setting?

Apparently this year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation decided not to publicly announce the names as they normally do and schools have to tell the kids themselves. The schools were notified by snail mail, which they may have missed. Also the list was sent to the press. It sounds like it was poorly handled. Especially for a city like DC where we really don't have any local paper that would normally announce something like this.

You are incorrect. This year's process is no different from prior years' (at least the last several). The NMSC has always left it up to schools to notify commended and semi finalist students and they have never published the list of names, but have always sent the list to the press.

The snail mail for commended students is separate from the mail for finalists. I know this because my kid was commended-level but was not notified. I knew his score and that he should have been. The school had no record of receiving it, even though they publicized the 1 finalist. I asked the Principal to check, they got a replacement letter or update, and then they recognized 5 kids as commended. We only have 1-2 finalists a year. Sometimes zero. So it's unfortunate when they can't recognize the achievers they do have due to mail getting lost. It definitely was not deliberately withheld. Expectations were so low, nobody thought it unusual there were no commended students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:POST THE LIST!!!

GO FIND IT!

LMGTFY--here's the results for DC privates. Other DCUM fora (college, DCPS, MCPS, FCPS) have active discussions on this topic and lists by state.

https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists

Sidwell-11
GDS-8
St Albans-7
NCS-4
Maret-2
Georgetown Visitation-1
St John's-1

NP. What do the three-digit numbers before each student’s name in those lists in the Patch article mean?

It means nothing because they have been out of college for 2 year now.

I realize it’s an old list, I was just wondering the meaning of the numbers in general. There seems to be no explanation for them in the article.

I believe it’s a code for intended major. It’s just something they used to have kids bubble in on the PSAT before they started.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

For Holton Arms, it’s 12 percent of graduating class. Don’t know about the other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

It's the top 1% of scorers per state. Except for DC which gets screwed where students have to earn the score of whatever the top scoring state is (225 in NJ and MA this year).

I meant what percentages of entire class are NMSF ?

What are you talking about? Which school's entire class? Read the lists and you can see. As PP mentioned, it's 1% of the top scorers per state.

Take the number of winners (numerator) and divide it by the number of kids in that year’s 11th grade class (denominator).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

It's the top 1% of scorers per state. Except for DC which gets screwed where students have to earn the score of whatever the top scoring state is (225 in NJ and MA this year).

I meant what percentages of entire class are NMSF ?

What are you talking about? Which school's entire class? Read the lists and you can see. As PP mentioned, it's 1% of the top scorers per state.

Smh! 🤦‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.) No DC posted unfortunately. The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view

What is it in percentage of the entire class?

For Holton Arms, it’s 12 percent of graduating class. Don’t know about the other schools.

Holton is doing well this year!