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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]35 at UVA seems low.  [/quote]

S[b]ome states have considerably lower criteria for NMS -- VA, MD, DC always have very high bars--within the top 5.[/quote][/b]

+1  This.[/quote]

Some schools sponsor winners.  You need to factor that.[/quote]

List of # of NMS in college not sponsoring - NMS are mostly sponsored by college board ($2500). It is an indication of student quality to some degree.

1.(9) MIT 154 [1,136 Freshmen, 13.5%]
2. (8) Harvard 160 [1,644 Freshmen, 9.7%]
3. (13) Yale 127 [1,554 Freshmen, 8%]
4. (14) Princeton 116 [1,497 Freshmen, 7.7%]
5. (12) Stanford 129 [1,733 Freshmen, 7.4%]
6. (10) Penn 147 [2,415 Freshmen, 6%]
7. (16) Duke 94 [1,744 Freshmen, 5.3%]
8. (27) Columbia 75 [1,522 Freshmen, 4.9%]
9. (41) Dartmouth 49 [1,124 Freshmen, 4.4%]
10. (40) Rice 51 [1,201 Freshmen, 4.3%]
11. (29) Brown 69 [1,717 Freshmen, 4%]
12. (28) Northwestern 75 [2,038 Freshmen, 3.7%]
13. (37) Georgetown 56 [1,603 Freshmen, 3.5%]
14. (43) Johns Hopkins 48 [1,406 Freshmen 3.4%]
15. (45) Carnegie Mellon 47 [1,716 Freshmen, 2.7%]
16. (18) Georgia Tech 90 [3,646 Freshmen, 2.5%]
17. (44) UChicago 48 [2,053 Freshmen, 2.3%]
18. (39) Cornell 54 [3,491 Freshmen, 1.5%]
19. (17) UC Berkeley 93 [6,707 Freshmen, 1.4%]
20. (24) UCLA 77 [6,461 Freshmen, 1.2%]
21. (26) Michigan 76 [7,050 Freshmen, 1%]
22. (20) UT Austin 85 [9,109 Freshmen, .9%]
23. (55) UVA 35 [4,020 Freshmen, .9%]
24. (51) UNC 40 [4,689 Freshmen, .8%]
25. (48) NYU 44 [6,184 Freshmen, .7%]
26. (52) Illinois 39 [8,297 Freshmen, .5%]

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