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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had no idea what this letter meant! Figured it was to say DD would at least be NM commended - she’s got 222 index in MD and is on the cusp for semi finalist. Why would any college care that’s she’s in the top 10% of her high school class? Is this for kids who don’t make commended to have something to put in the honors section?  [/quote]

Exactly. For top kids this is superfluous and meaningless. [/quote]

As I noted above, some of us have kids going to schools where more than 10 percent of students are NM commended (in our case about 60 commended out of 360, plus 10-15 semifinalists), so to be in the top 10 percent at our school is actually a further differentiation. [/quote]

But you can qualify based on 2 AP scores of 3+ which could be nearly all kids at top performing schools...colleges won't know by which criteria your kid qualified. Seems like a meaningless award at schools that send many to T20[/quote]

I don’t think most kids at our school have 2 APs before junior year. We don’t have AP Precal and no AP sciences are permitted until you’ve taken the intro level. So most kids only have APUSH by the end of 10th grade. But maybe some also have computer science. Not sure about that. [/quote]

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