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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I

Um, no.  In 2014, NCS had four NMSF and Maret had 1.  http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1310966/d-c-semifinalists-in-2015-national-merit.pdf.  Potomac had seven.  http://www.potomacschool.org/news/index.aspx.

Also, when the Washingtonian surveyed educational consultants, it came up with a list of six Academic All-Stars:  Sidwell, NCS, St. Albans, GDS, Potomac.  http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/work-education/a-private-school-for-every-student/

It's fine to have an opinion, but if you are going to assert facts you shouldn't just make them up.
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And Potomac had a great number of Presidential Scholars this year:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/443889.page

Quick review and counting looks like, with each school's multi-year average in (parentheses):

STA 10 (average 5) 
NCS 6 (7) 
Potomac 6 (2) 
Maret 6 (6) 
SFS 7 (11) 
GDS 11 (6) 
Holton 1 (2) 
Landon 1 (1)

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Not sure where this data is coming from, but Holton had 6 National Merit finalists this year. (And that is typical; I am certain the average is not two.) One way that data gets skewed on this is that the students appear on a list based on their state of residence, not the state that the school is in. So a school that draws from DC, MD and VA will have students on three different lists, fwiw.[/quote]

This data appears to be quite old and was copied from an old thread on DCUM.  The compiled spreadsheet that someone submitted above, which appears to be accurate, also lists H-A as having six NMSF in 2014.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnukIDABt_JKdDdZYXlQbnFUQ0VfMHRpTFp1SUIxS2c&hl=en_US#gid=0

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Reading comprehension, people.  The list above is not NMSF, but Presidential Scholars.  IIRC it is the highest SAT scores in each state (I think something like top 20 boys and girls, including all who scored at the lowest qualifying score -- so there are more than 20 in many states).  And the thread it is copied from is only "old" if you consider a month and a half ago "old" (you crazy kids).[/quote]

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