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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's MD and VA 2026 NMSF courtesy of reddit (if these lists are fakes, they're definitely elaborate ones.)  No DC posted unfortunately.  The number of public school magnet students (TJ, Blair etc.) on these lists is incredible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1ndby41/lists_of_semifinalists_by_state_2026/

Maryland 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Virginia 2026
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xCdjpoXII9oTmu_hWYFqeWl5XWmTblSu/view[/quote]
Wow TJ! [/quote]

Despite those rockin' numbers, TJ is significantly behind where they were a few years ago, despite having a much larger class size. FCPS rejiggered admissions to cap high performing feeder schools and removed testing. This is why the other FCPS high schools are now posting such big numbers -- Oakton managed 25. Under the old admissions system, most of those kids would have been at TJ. [/quote]
Further indication that parsing school results from year to year is silly — it’s not the schools, it’s the kids, and they’d likely be stellar students whether they are in public, magnet, or private. [/quote]

Of course - it’s still pretty interesting to see the current relative concentrations of high-achieving kids.[/quote]

I wish they also would give numbers for Commended, which doesn't change on a state-by-state basis and is less streaky, since it's looking at the top 3%, not the tippity top less than 1%.

This is modulo the SAT not being as strong at test as it used to be - more subject to practice effects, less able to distinguish top performers from each other, switching to calculators, dropping free response and analogies, etc.

[/quote] I don't think that's how you use the word "modulo". [/quote]

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