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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year's national merit semifinalist list:
http://georgetown.patch.com/groups/schools/p/national-merit-scholarship-semifinalists-include-56-dc-students

The "super smart and talented" kids at GDS had fewer than St. Albans although the class at GDS is over 60% bigger and less than 50% of the total number of semifinalists at Sidwell (although the classes are the same size).

Some years GDS does better than this year.  This is just to say that whomever keeps asserting that GDS automatically has the best college matriculation isn't tying it to any facts.[/quote]
Similarly, if you want to compare Presidential Scholar Candidates -- the number who scored top SATs  in 2014 ...

Sidwell, 1 out if every 12 seniors
NCS, 1 out if every 19 seniors
Maret, 1 out if every 19 seniors
GDS, 1 out if every 29 seniors
STA, 1 out if every 38 seniors
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Although one does have to recognize that with such small sample sizes there can be big swings from year to year.  For example, GDS had three times as many Presidential Scholar candidates in 2013 (9) as in 2014 (3).  St. Albans had more than four times as many Presidential Scholar Candidates in 2013 (9) than in 2014.  (Using the prior poster's metric, that's 1 in every 8 STA students who was a Presidential Scholar candidate in 2013 and 1 in every 14 GDS students in 2013.  You really need to look at trends (and to be fair, looking at trends it is clear that, as is the case with National Merit Semifinalists, Sidwell does very well year in and year out in terms of having a lot of high scoring students).[/quote]

Probably the dumbest thread in DCUM.  What is the hypotheses here? That PSAT tests taken at the beginning of Junior year are a proxy for college matriculation?  High school excellence?  None if the Ivy caliber schools even give recognition to NMSF finalists.  [/quote]

Congrats, you get the prize for dumbest post on the dumbest thread. Of COURSE colleges the most selective colleges care about SATs. The higher the SAT the better (and over 2200 is pretty much de rigeur). Which means - wait for it - that they take scads of NMSSFs (you forgot the second "S").

Also, PP is absolutely correct to point out the volatility in high schools' NMSSF numbers. It would be wrong to draw conclusions from just one year of data. This is why high schools (the ones that publish) and matriculationstats.org often publish multi-year results.[/quote]

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