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[b]They're taking spots that would go to DC kids.[/b] The way NMS works is they select kids based on where they go to school, not where they live.

Presidential Scholars are based on where they live and much more broadly distributed within DC. [/quote]

MD/VA students are not taking spots away from DC students.  DC is set to the highest cutoff in the country, but gets double the representation of other states (~1% vs. ~0.5%).  40% of the Sidwell students listed above live in DC, and (hopefully) 100% of the DCPS/DCPCS students above do.  [b]I'm would bet that &gt;50% of the 39 2020 semifinalists live in DC, so DC residents are proportionally represented[/b] (I know that we are not use to that).[/quote]

[b]I'm just not buying that half the private school semifinalists don't live in DC.  I'd wager it's more like 25%.[/b]  People who live in DC simply don't have high-caliber public high schools to send their children to, like residents of NYC, Chicago, Boston etc..  In the DC burbs, even the wealthy clamor to get their children into top programs like TJ.  In the District, those with the dough to ignore public schools generally do after elementary.  Affirmative-action based admissions to Walls and honors for all at Wilson is the best we can do as a City.  See the results in the paucity of DC public school semifinalists year after year.  They're staring you in the face.[/quote]

I have access to the NCS directory. 
Of the 5 NCS semifinalists, [b]only 1 lives in DC-[/b]--so 20%.   (1 is from Arlington, 1 from Mclean, 1 from Gaithersburg and 1 from Chevy Chase MD). 
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