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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not a coincidence that each of Langley and McLean has more National Merit Semifinalists this year than all four of the high schools in APS combined. If you want a more challenging pyramid (and many in APS don’t), that is where you should go. [/quote]

Yeah, this definitely has nothing to do with the average household income of McLean vs Arlington/SES/demographics.🙄 I’m not saying that accounts for all of the difference, but it’s not insignificant. [/quote]
Yorktown is very high SES but it has only a handful of NMSF semifinalists. If your hypothesis is right it should be like Mclean [/quote]

Not a direct comparison because of APS's option program. The top kids transfer to WL for IB [/quote]

Wait, wut? We always joke that Mclean, Langley, and Oakton are starting their JV squad because their varsity team tested into TJ...[/quote]

This is less correct than it used to be -- TJ's numbers of national merit semi-finalists dropped in half this year, as the admissions changes that were implemented  ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶d̶u̶c̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶s̶i̶a̶n̶s̶ for equity purposes finally rolled through to the senior class.

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