E.L. Haynes tops list of Presidential Scholar candidates

[Anonymous]

The 2018 list of Presidential Scholar candidates is out. Among schools with DC students, EL Haynes tops the list with 8 candidates.

E.L. Haynes Public Charter School 8
Georgetown Day School 7
School Without Walls 6
Sidwell Friends School 6
National Cathedral School 5
St. Alban's School 5
Edmund Burke School 4
Maret School 4
Woodrow Wilson Senior High School 3
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School 2
Friendship Public Charter School: Collegiate Academy 2
KIPP DC College Preparatory 2
Benjamin Banneker Academic High School 1
Bullis School 1
Friendship Technology Preparatory Academy 1
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School 1
Gonzaga College High School 1
Hebrew Academy Grtr Washington 1
Howard D Woodson Sr High Sch 1
Roosevelt Evening High School 1
Roosevelt High School 1
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart 1
Washington Math & Science Tech 1
Washington Waldorf School H S 1


Complete list is at:
https://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2018/candidates.pdf

[Anonymous]

This is being discussed in the private school thread. Each state department of education gets to nominate students. Jenny Niles the head of ours in DC and was deeply involved with E.L. Haynes. I believe, that ff a student is nominated, they don't have to meet the test criteria.

[Anonymous]

^^sorry for the typos.