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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arguing that a school's number of NMSFs is any indicator of a school's quality is really ridiculous.

The PSAT is an exceedingly prepable test. My kid who agreed to do test prep the summer before 11th grade went from a 1200 to a 1550 by fall of junior year on the SAT, rocked the PSAT and became a NMSF.  My other two went in cold and got a 1200 on the PSAT and then studied in the months after the test. By spring on junior year they were getting 1550s on the SAT.  Sure, there are kids who take the PSAT cold and score very high but in my experience this is very few out of high scorers. There are about a million test-prep operations that offer PSAT tutoring in the greater DMV and SAT tutoring that is done the summer before the junior year covers the exact same material as well.  Someone is taking all those courses and using all those tutors. Plus it doesn't take much studying to really jump your score.  My kids never had a professional tutor--they simply took about 4 full tests on the weekends, reviewed a study guide and voila--a jump of 200-300 points. Had they done this before taking the PSAT you all would be saying "oh my gosh, their school really prepped them and deserves so much credit." Total bs. 
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And yet it somehow doesnt seem random that Thomas Jefferson routinely has 100+ semifinalists. [/quote]

I don't follow your argument. The TJ crowd lives and breathes by test prep. Half those kids were in Russian Math school since the age of 5. And have you been to an C2 Tutoring Center or similar on the weekend in Fairfax County?  I have. It's literally overrun by TJ students.  AND at the time of the PSAT the TJ kids will only have been at TJ for 2 years so it's not like they've been molded and created by TJ.  [/quote]

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