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[quote=Anonymous]As recommended above, this is a useful article on this subject:
https://www.compassprep.com/national-merit-semifinalist-cutoffs/.  There are many caveats to this test and NMSF criteria.  I think it is important to understand the qualifiers as laid out well in this article.

The PSAT by itself is just one of several indicators of academic excellence.  The fact that there is this national recognition conferred --  NMSF -- which is based on relative state-based rankings, creates misunderstanding.  In short, there are probably a respectable number of DC students getting into the 99 percentile nationally, who simply are not getting recognized as such because the NMSF is a relative ranking within individual states rather than based on national rankings.

Perhaps they should change the name to "STATE Merit Semi-Finalist" which would go a long way to clarify the misunderstanding.

A better assessment would be to see the % of DCPS students in the top 1% and 5%.  It would be very interesting to see our relative representation there.

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