National Merit Semifinalist 2018

[Anonymous]

Washington, DC: PSAT Index Score Cutoff (223)

https://patch.com/district-columbia/georgetown/s/g8enk/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists

Georgetown Day School (8)

Abraham Atwood
Thomas N. Brooks
Evan J. Brown
Levi H. Freedman
Isabel L. Kirsch
Samson B. Mostashari
Benjamin G. Stern
Karen U. Thomas


Georgetown Visitation Prep School (1):

Mary T. Kolesar

Maret School (2):

Julius M. Ball-Heldman
Kendall Matsumoto

National Cathedral School (4):

Alex J. Giannattasio
Anna May Mott
Brett E. Pearson
Paulina Q. Song

School Without Walls (2):

Ella S. Buring
Sophia E. Diggs-Galligan

Sidwell Friends School (11):

Tala M. Anderson
Sarah K. Brodnax
William D. Chen
Rahul V. Gupta
William R. Keto
Nicole J. Kislovskiy
Ana Mundaca
Sofia Neaher
Ella C. Stark
Elen Stepanyan
Alexandra Zhang

St. Albans School (7):

William Busching
Trevor R. Child
John A. Klingler
Jonathan E. Rufino
Jayram M. Sastry
Gabriel Schneider
Griffin T. Shapiro

St. John's College (1):

Camille M. Jefferson

Woodrow Wilson (1):

Samuel A. Himmelfarb

[Anonymous]

I am interested in the gender breakdown.

Obviously at NCS it is 4 girls, at Visi it is 1 girl, and at STA it is 7 boys.

St. John's is 1 girl, and at School Without Walls it is 2 girls.

Woodrow Wilson is 1 boy.

Maret is 2 boys, I think.

GDS has 6 boys and 2 girls, whereas Sidwell has 8 girls and 3 boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am interested in the gender breakdown.

Obviously at NCS it is 4 girls, at Visi it is 1 girl, and at STA it is 7 boys.

St. John's is 1 girl, and at School Without Walls it is 2 girls.

Woodrow Wilson is 1 boy.

Maret is 2 boys, I think.

GDS has 6 boys and 2 girls, whereas Sidwell has 8 girls and 3 boys.

I wouldn't put too much stock in the gender breakdown - this kind of thing, and number of semifinalists from each school - varies from year to year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Washington, DC: PSAT Index Score Cutoff (223)

https://patch.com/district-columbia/georgetown/s/g8enk/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists

Georgetown Day School (8)

Abraham Atwood
Thomas N. Brooks
Evan J. Brown
Levi H. Freedman
Isabel L. Kirsch
Samson B. Mostashari
Benjamin G. Sternh
Karen U. Thomas


Georgetown Visitation Prep School (1):

Mary T. Kolesar

Maret School (2):

Julius M. Ball-Heldman
Kendall Matsumoto

National Cathedral School (4):

Alex J. Giannattasio
Anna May Mott
Brett E. Pearson
Paulina Q. Song

School Without Walls (2):

Ella S. Buring
Sophia E. Diggs-Galligan

Sidwell Friends School (11):

Tala M. Anderson
Sarah K. Brodnax
William D. Chen
Rahul V. Gupta
William R. Keto
Nicole J. Kislovskiy
Ana Mundaca
Sofia Neaher
Ella C. Stark
Elen Stepanyan
Alexandra Zhang

St. Albans School (7):

William Busching
Trevor R. Child
John A. Klingler
Jonathan E. Rufino
Jayram M. Sastry
Gabriel Schneider
Griffin T. Shapiro

St. John's College (1):

Camille M. Jefferson

Woodrow Wilson (1):

Samuel A. Himmelfarb

Ummm...you realize someone had posted this link 6 hours before you did? Did you even bother keeping up with the thread?

[Anonymous]

The link was posted, but not the individual students, as had been done for the students elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=6102&type=&startYear=&pageNumber=&mode=

Here's the link for Montgomery County by school. My daughter's public had 16.

[Anonymous]

The MCPS semifinalists come from 13 high schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Montgomery Blair, Winston Churchill, Clarksburg, Walter Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Richard Montgomery, Poolesville, Rockville, Sherwood, Wheaton, Walt Whitman and Thomas S. Wootton.

The schools with the most finalists are Montgomery Blair (46), Richard Montgomery (33) and Poolesville (16).

[Anonymous]

Montgomery County does not list the NMSF students, only the School numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County does not list the NMSF students, only the School numbers.

Which I think is better. We don't need to know their identities.

[Anonymous]

Full Maryland list:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/k-12/bal-list-national-merit-scholarship-honorees-20170918-htmlstory.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County does not list the NMSF students, only the School numbers.

Which I think is better. We don't need to know their identities.

Why not? I think it's great that the kids get more public recognition. Last year MCPS included the link to the listing for the State. I imagine they just forgot this year.

[Anonymous]

It's there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would say that it appears to be a fairly even result for the Big 3 (Georgetown Day School, National Cathedral School/St. Albans School, and Sidwell Friends School) this year. I continue to believe that these are all terrific schools (as are the other private schools) which attract very strong students.

Considering how much larger the population at GDS you would have thougt it would have more students.

BTW, Big 3 is a stupid and outdated term - and GDS was never a Big 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say that it appears to be a fairly even result for the Big 3 (Georgetown Day School, National Cathedral School/St. Albans School, and Sidwell Friends School) this year. I continue to believe that these are all terrific schools (as are the other private schools) which attract very strong students.

Considering how much larger the population at GDS you would have thougt it would have more students.

BTW, Big 3 is a stupid and outdated term - and GDS was never a Big 3.

The three schools are comparable in size, or combined class size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County does not list the NMSF students, only the School numbers.

Which I think is better. We don't need to know their identities.

Why not? I read the names of the football team's quarterback or the soccer team's goalie in our local or school pages several times during the season.