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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think having different cutoffs for different states is bogus.  Why should one kid be a NMSF with a 212 while a kid with a 222 in another state is not?[/quote]

Commended is set at a national level.

Different states have better or worse educational systems.

They want to have the top kids from every state recognized, not just kids from affluent, educated hotbed like Massachusetts and DMV.  Because we are a 50 state nation with colleges all over the place that want top kids.

There is no moral virtue implied by being an NMF.  The criteria is just "top kids from each state based on a state-specific cutoff".  I agree with that.  To do otherwise would smack of opportunity hoarding.

If the cutoff goes up in your state it might mean higher concentrations of smart kids in your state, better school teaching performance, affluence differences, etc.  I hope it means that schools are continuing to recover from Covid learning deficits.  My kid was impacted during the key middle school years (Algebra).  We had to pay for tutoring to get his skills on track to where they should have been.[/quote]

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