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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school forum posters are beyond  weird. What kind of accomplishment is NMS anyways? Majority of my DS's public HS senior class have SAT in the 1500's but neither the school held the PSAT nor the SAT route to NMS was promoted.

The school did arrange for SAT for 11th graders and that was that. 37 of the 250 current seniors are semifinalists now.  But around 40 more students would have made it as semifinalists if they had registered.   They were not interested/paying attention and neither were their parents.  I wish the counselors would have made these students register for the alternate route and asked them to get their scores send to NMSC also.

I am also amused at the narrative on this thread that PSAT is tougher than SAT.  Not true. They are exactly the same exam but SAT has more content.  Seriously.

For a lot of student that are commended or semifinalists through taking PSAT, they are lucky that so many high performing students were unable to take the PSAT and the qualifying scores thus dropped.

NMSC should automatically swoop up all students who take SAT and PSAT and evaluate them to make it more equitable.  No one should be required to register. Maybe some Sidwell parent can sue NMSC. [/quote]

You are jealous and it shows.[/quote]

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