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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bummer, not a great showing for DC public, and that's putting it mildly.

In 2017, Walls had five semifinalists, and there have been years when Wilson had several.[/quote]

DCPS and public charters, with a combined enrollment of nearly 100,000 students, has four semifinalists.

Sidwell, with 1140 K-12 students, has thirteen. [/quote]

yes, there the ratio is higher at Sidwell.  But the Sidwell kids come from MD and VA too.  So they're not all coming from the pool of DC students.  In fact none of the ones
I know on that list are DC residents.  
Plus scoring well on the PSAT these days is often about prepping.  Back in our day, no one would prep prior to the PSAT.  Today some kids don't and others 
do prep for months if not years.  It's a different playing field.     [/quote]

They're taking spots that would go to DC kids. The way NMS works is they select kids based on where they go to school, not where they live.

Presidential Scholars are based on where they live and much more broadly distributed within DC. [/quote]

NMS is just not that big a deal; the scholarship is worth very little anymore. The way DC was treated was established decades ago; did you just figure this out now?

I'm sorry your kid wasn't named a finalist, but they will be just fine in college admissions, merit aid and life without it. Promise.[/quote]

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