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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The college admissions officers know the schools and areas they are responsible for and they know full well that DC has plenty of comfortable neighborhoods and they get tons of applications from these neighborhoods.

I had not heard the things about the merit scholarships.  Why is the bar higher for DC kids?[/quote]

Actually for 2012 D.C. shares the same PSAT cutoff score of 223 with MA, NJ, international students and the New England boarding schools.

According to Eileen Artemakis, a spokesperson for the National Merit Corporation notes:

“We want to ensure that we recognize outstanding students from all parts of the United States in the talent pool for the National Merit Program. We designate students on a state representational basis, which means that the number [of student semifinalists] named in each state is proportional to its percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. So the scores will vary from state to state as well as from year to year because of that.”[/quote]

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