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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well - they did “drop” if walls kids stayed the same but other kids on average now score higher.  Apparently in past DC cut score roughly results in top 1 percent in DC getting NMSF.  Wondering if that also happened this year - higher cut score - but even so  1 percent achieved it.[/quote]

No, it’s like 0.5% this year. Because the total is only what, 37? But there are about 9,000 PSAT/NMSQT takers in DC.

In theory, there could be zero NMSFs in DC. In theory, every kid in DC could be an NMSF. [b]Because the cut score is unrelated to the local population.[/b] [/quote]

This is the crux of the NMSF problem in DC. It's totally unrelated to DC itself. [/quote]

Except that it is. Posted a few pages back that there were 230 commended scholars in DC this year. This is more than Wisconsin (population 6M), and many times over the numbers of commended scholars in small states with much lower cut scores for NMSF. 37 semi-finalists also compares positively to the small state numbers (again, with lower cut scores).

DC has an inordinately high number of high scorers.[/quote]

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