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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Note:  1% of PSAT takers nationwide become NMSS.

At Wilson, roughly .2% of the juniors cleared the bar this year.

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NMSF is aimed at the top .5% per state.[/quote]

I thought DC is automatically assigned the cut off of the highest state (usually NJ) without regard to the number of DC students.

11th graders in DC schools last year:

DCPS:2717
PCS: 1266
Private:1437 (est. from 21 private schools with high school grades in DC)

So roughly 5420 eleventh graders in DC schools last year (no data on how many took the test though). So the top .5% would have allowed DC 271 NMSF, but since we are locked with the score of the top state, we only got 39 which is only the top .007%. [/quote]

1% of 5420 is 54, half that is 27.  By using the cutoff of the top state, we get more NMSF.[/quote]

oops, well, I didn't even take the PSAT, so ...  :lol: [/quote]

How do we get more NMSF? Don't we get fewer? Why are we at the highest level?[/quote]

You mean why is our cut-off score the highest, or among the highest of the states (along with NJ, MA and NYC most years)?  That's because a minority of DC juniors takes the PSAT, and most are private school students. The top 1% of the PSAT takers in the city are knocking it out of the park on the PSAT.  In a state, far more not-so-academic kids are in the pool.
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