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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other school districts announce, but crickets from DCPS... Likely because most are not from DCPS schools. [/quote]

That's always the case though.  Smart kids from throughout the region come to the region's best private schools, which are in the District, and take most of the DC NMSF slots.[/quote]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Walls typically has a handful, and BASIS and JR and Latin and DCI have a few.

With the high school ecosystem changing so rapidly I'm curious to see if there are any changes. Like, was the MIT acceptee from McKinley a NMSF and bring them into the list this year? Will Banneker have any? Etc.[/quote]

This was last year.

Public:

Walls (6)
BASIS (3)
Latin (2)
DCI (2)
J-R (1)

Private:

Sidwell (11)
GDS (7)
STA (6)
NCS (3)
WIS (2)
SJC (2)
Maret (1)
Field (1)
Gonzaga (1)

Some public, some private, just as I said.

[b]The point I was making was that DC is a very competitive state as students come in from VA and MD who normally would be in competition there and make DC harder to get NMSF in.[/b]

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That's not how it works. Rather than setting the score at the top 1% of all DC test takers, the DC score is set equal to the highest state score. It does not matter how well, or not well, students in DC schools do, the cut off score is pegged to the highest test score of a state. So this year, NJ and MA had the highest scores at 225. Therefore, DC's cut off score is 225.

It's absolutely ridiculous, imo. If Wyoming and Vermont can have their own state scores, there's no reason why DC can't.[/quote]

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