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Reply to "DCPS National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists 2017"
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[quote=Anonymous]DCPS is really competing on an uneven playing field here. I'm not sure there is much that DC public schools can do to change these numbers in a system that is rigged against them. Students are scored where they go to school, not where they live. So every student at the top private schools here is competing in DC. DC has the highest cutoff score to qualify as a NM scholar in the nation. As a population, these kids in private school make up a substantial number of high-achieving high school juniors in the District. If there was a northern Virginia cut-off score, or a Manhattan one, or a Boston one, the distribution of those areas might be different. But DC public school students are competing directly with a whole lot of elite private school students in a system where the number of available "slots" is small because DC is a dense, small urban place.[/quote]
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