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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the list of Presidential Scholar candidates is purely a matter of having perfect/near perfect SAT/ACT scores. The fact that DC's threshold is considerably lower than DC or Maryland's gives a huge boost to the DC private schools.  ... [/quote]
I'm not so sure you're correct about DC's threshold being lower.  I haven't seen much direct data on this point, but you might be able to get a rough sense by looking at the state SAT reports:
CA - https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/CA_14_03_03_01.pdf
DC - https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/DC_14_03_03_01.pdf
MD - https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/MD_14_03_03_01.pdf
VA - https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/VA_14_03_03_01.pdf

I don't have time right now to dig into all the numbers, but I just did a little quick math to see what % of students in CA and DC scored in the top section (700-800) on the sub-tests.  A quick glance suggests about the same % of DC students as CA students are in that top range (although it might bear checking closely because I see some big swings in some of the sub-tests).

Perhaps others have better ideas on the best methodology to approach this problem in light of the limited data we have.[/quote]

Making a rough calculation, there were 44 Presidential Scholar candidates in DC out of 348 students who scored in the 700-800 range on CR. That's a ratio of almost 13%. In contrast, there were 101:3356 in Virginia (3%) and 69:2446 (2.8%) in Maryland. While it is possible that the difference is due to a a higher proportion of perfect scoring Washingtonians, it is more likely that the threshold is lower than MD and VA.  Since the the threshold is calculated using the the top 20 scores by gender, it makes sense that a small jurisdiction would have a lower threshold than a much larger one. [/quote]

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