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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty amazing that you're still saying there is a separate slow track for athletes. What's in this for you? You are beyond annoying. [/quote]

Maret is not transparent about what it has done -- it's good this is coming out, even if it annoys some of the loyal Maret boosters.  It also helps explain the decline in the numbers of National Merit Semifinalists at Maret in the past decade.[/quote]

Right? I mean, having every class listed in a curriculum guide on the website is so opaque. Well, just to you, I guess. If you're such a fan of transparency, please post your name here so maybe the school can contact you to calm your nerves? [/quote]

Lol.  You all are very defensive given that the slow track exists, and that National Merit Semifinalist data is a matter of public record.

NMSF Totals 2010 - 2013

Sidwell: 51 (
St. Albans: 39
GDS: 36
NCS: 24
Maret: 12

As they used to say on Sesame Street, "one of these things is not like the other . . . "

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Not the PP but if 98% of Maret students stay at the school and they only add a few kids in 9th grade ... Are you saying these 3 recruited athletes made the other kids dumber? That is why the Maret lifers are not NMSF? (Which is much different than NMS, btw)[/quote]

Those numbers show that (1) the school is overrated; and (2) that yes, they choose to bring in male athletes in 9th grade as opposed to top academic students.  The other DC schools all have very competitive admissions in 9th grade and get some star students, including National Merit Semifinalists, and Maret chases athletic success in a couple of boys' sports.  [/quote]

So the #15 next to Maret is more impressive than an article in the paper? Sorry but you are clueless how the whole NMSf thing works. Hey did you read in the paper Maret had 15 NMSF students? Crickets....  Hey did your read in the paper about the 3 boys that play basketball at Maret? Oh yea, that was a really nice article, Maret seems like a great school.[/quote]

What's the number 15 reference?

Moving on to what seems to be the substance of your argument, the reason people care about NMSF totals is that they are a proxy for how academically strong the cohort is -- it's not by accident that 33% of the student body at TJ are National Merit Semifinalists.  Not everybody wants a strong academic cohort, but plenty of people do, so that their child is being challenged and stretched intellectually by fellow students as well as by faculty.

Are the PSATs a perfect metric?  No, of course not.  For example, your average Northwest DC kid has lots of test prep before taking the PSAT, and other kids are coming in cold.  And kids at DC schools have the highest NMSF cut-off in the country (which is why it's helpful to compare Maret to the other DC independent schools, which have the same hurdle.)  But generally, at the college level schools with high average SATs (Harvard, MIT) have very bright student bodies, and at the high school level schools with lots of kids with high PSAT scores have very bright student bodies.  [/quote]

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