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Reply to "So why does Wilson not have a single National Merit Semifinalist?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I've been an Ivy League interviewer in this area for 20 years. DC has the highest high cutoff score, so it is difficult to become a semifinalist here. Colleges though, don't look at the PSAT; they just look at your SAT scores. They also know that there is a margin of error around these scores, so that any rating that makes distinctions between someone who got a 222 and someone who got a 223 probably isn't useful. In addition, SAT scores aren't that well correlated with college success. Colleges would rather take a kid with all 750+ scores on the SAT who ran a canned food drive and coaches Little League than a person with all 800s who hasn't accomplished anything else. This is because people who get things done are more successful in life. All this is to say that prepping to squeeze every last point out of the test is not the best use of a high school student's time [/quote]
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