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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn’t private schools want the information on social media so it’s available to prospective families applying this year? [/quote]
Why?[/quote]

Maybe some families would infer that the schools with semifinalists have more rigorous curricula?[/quote]
What makes you think that would be a reasonable inference?[/quote]

Doesn’t it make sense that these schools are at the top of the list given how rigorous they are?
Sidwell (11)
GDS (7)
STA (6)
NCS (3)[/quote]

I'm a former NMSF who went to bad public schools and I tend to think the award is not that correlated to school (these kids would have been NMSFs anywhere). The list is interesting bc it indicates where these families like to go, and that probably correlates with rigor.

[b]However Sidwell number is so good I wonder if Sidwell is actually doing something active that helps prepare kids to do their very best on the PSAT[/b].[/quote]
It’s not the schools, it’s the type of parents (in general) whose kids attend these schools. Most kids might start test prep after they get their PSAT result or after one shot at the SAT. But many kids at the schools at the top of these lists have parents who start them on test prep at the beginning of ninth grade. These are parents who are willing to seek out every small opportunity to have their kids distinguish themselves from the pack.[/quote]

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