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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a big kerfuffle a few years back because they didn't notify commended students.  The whole TJ admissions drama was involved because TJs PSAT scores dropped like 120 points and someone said that they didn't want the kids who didn't get commendations to stand out.  I think they notified the semifinalists.[/quote]

I think you have the timeline mixed up. The first class admitted without the test are now seniors, so we'll see what the damage is in terms of number of National Merit semi-finalists and commended students in a few weeks. (It will probably be pretty bad.)[/quote]

Here are the

In the admissions test era, a super-majority of TJHSST students got either NMSF or Commended, so there's some speculation that they were withholding announcements of Commended to soften the blow for kids who didn't get anything.[/quote]

Here are the 2022-2023 PSAT test scores (on the last 3 or 4 pages)
The old cohort were 11th graders and the new cohort were 10th graders
The mean PSAT scores were 1257 for 10th graders and 1435 for 11th graders
https://fcta.org/FxCo/Schools/2023_fcps_CollegeBdRpt.pdf

In 2021-2022 the PSAT scores were 1381 for 10th graders and 1443 for 11th graders
https://fcta.org/FxCo/Schools/2022_fcps_CollegeBdRpt.pdf
That is a pretty large drop off.

Scores were slightly higher before the pandmemic

These are from this web page:
https://fcta.org/
These guys seem to drift libertarian/conservative but the college board reports seem legit
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