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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm the PP.  I agree with this also, but I think they did not want NMSQT to include only kids from wealthier/more resourced areas so that's why they did that.  As for why they weigh R/W double, I have no idea why they made that decision.  I want to say it was because boys were scoring better in math, by my DD scored higher in math.[/quote]

It seems to be done to even out the gender disparity.

There is some (older) research evidence that the SATs could be redesigned so that women would score better than they do today at the top end.  But the NMF org. prefers to keep the verbal doubling formula.  For gender balance but probably also because they don't want to have all math geeks (regardless of gender) as NMFs.  They need more of a variety of types for surface validity and to provide to universities as incoming students in a variety of intended majors.  [/quote]

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