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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox[/quote]

For DC it looks like less than 50 kids?

SFS 11
GDS 7
STA 6
Walls 6
NCS 3
Basis 3
WIS 2
St John’s 2
Latin 2
Maret 1
Field 1
JR 1
Gonzaga 1[/quote]

Interesting. At the top end in Texas you have private schools with 20-30% of their graduating class earning NMSF.

I’m guessing the discrepancy has to do with distribution of student bodies among public/private schools among other things. [/quote]

Compare the score cut cutoff for Texas and DC. That’s your answer. [/quote]

That’s definitely a part of it, but not all of it. NMSF is ~top 1% of test takers by state (b/c of the weight/bias given to the  RW section can’t say it is precisely the top 1%). The different cutoff should address some discrepancy.  But not all.  Because they double the RW scores for NMSF you can’t get an exact number, but basically, the cutoff in DC/Va is around 1486 and 1460 in Texas. I don’t think those 26 points are the difference between 10% and 30% of your student body making it. Those are both 99th percentile scores.

But the cutoff does explain some of the discrepancy. Something else going on with enrollment patterns. Where top end private schools in Texas are collecting more 99th percentile kids than the schools in this thread. Not really a big deal, but interesting to compare. [/quote]

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