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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maret is a good school.  Much lower percentage of National Merit Semifinalists (an imperfect metric but one of the only ones to exist) than Sidwell/GDS/Cathedral schools.  Maybe because they let in a higher % of the ultimate graduating class at the lower grades and don't have as many 9th grade admits with very strong test scores?  Not sure.  But, again, a very nice place with good teaching.[/quote]

National Merit Semifinalist is metric that measures the ability of students who are admitted to a school, not the impact of the school on those students.  There is a strong correlation between entrance exam performance and PSAT performance.  Even for students who attend a school a full four years, the PSAT is administered just after the halfway point if the school experience. [/quote]

There is absolutely NO correlation between PSAT performance and entrance exam performance which is based on more an "achievement test" than the PSAT which is a reasoning based exam preapring the student for the upcoming SAT exam.  This is all part of the raging controversy over the value of the PSAT and SAT.  No colleges ever see the PSAT and is only a guide for students to focus on in preparatin for the SAT. [/quote]

This is so wrong it's not even worth trying to parse it out - suffice it say that juniors can take the SAT before the PSAT.[/quote]

Sure, any junior can take the SAT before the SAT as a sophmore or freshman?  The PSAT is offered in October of the junior year..there's only one chance that a junior can take the SAT before the PSAT.  THis is such a ridiculous post is not evne woth responding any further.....[/quote]

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