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[quote=Anonymous]I know this was a huge subject on the Virginia public school and FCPS forums last year, and a lot of people calling the "commended" a "participation trophy"- but is your student putting the commended status on college applications? My kid doesn't have a lot of other awards. His score is 214 and he goes to a Prince William county public school. FWIW, the entire county (13 public high schools) only had TWO NM Semi Finalists last year--so it's nothing like TJ or other high performing FCPS high schools.) He is applying to mostly out of state schools where the cut off is much lower than Virginias--in some of those states his 214 would have been high enough to be a semi finalist.[/quote]
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