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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]99% nationally might be enough too make the DC cut off, you never know! Definitely sounds like your child will get Commended anyway :) [/quote]

I think you have to be 99.5% and DC is aligned with the highest states so 99% may not do it. [/quote]

I know for a fact that my child did not make the cutoff, but perhaps they might have if they had prepared for the PSAT.  Our private school advised its students not to worry about preparation for the PSAT, but I now know that many students did prepare.  Oh well, at least the actual SAT exam came out very well. I do worry about whether the NMSF status will make the difference when colleges try to decide between two applications from the same school, but one cannot change the past and DC, at least, has put this behind them. [/quote]

There are schools that count up and tout their NMSFs but the most selective schools aren't among them.  This really should not matter -- remember that many of these college counselors have experience on the "other side of the table" as admissions officers so they aren't just making this up.  It is worth prepping for the SAT because not all schools allow super scoring so you want to do your best out of the gate, but prepping for the NMSF isn't necessary unless you're looking at schools that recruit NMSFs.[/quote]

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