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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very interesting, highly alarming!  With under 80 students in each graduating class, exorbitant resources (both at school and home), this is the result?[/quote]
I guess it all depends on how you look at the numbers. Like I said though, setting aside TJ & Blair magnets, StA and a few other DC schools with similar percentages all lead the DC pack by a fairly significant margin. And the StA percentage is about the same as what you'd find at well-known boarding schools (e.g., Andover). So the take-home message is that most really well-respected schools in the country seem to average about 15%, and StA is right there with them. So maybe it's legitimate to ask whether StA (with all the resources available to it) should be producing a higher percentage of NMSFs, but it's not as if anyone has many better practical options available.

I think a better question is to ask how TJ and Blair manage to produce such high percentages. I know they pull huge numbers of highly-caliber students from relatively affluent areas, and they do a good job teaching them. However, the same could be said for plenty of other public magnets. Yet TJ/Blair seem to produce more NMSFs than anywhere else. I'm impressed every time I look at the numbers.[/quote]

There is a difference between public magnet and public exam schools.  Note the word exam- test scores are a driving force in admissions.   Now what about the approx 25% of the other NMSF in FX who are not at TJ?   Did they also apply and NOT get in yet placed higher in the PSAT than TJ students who get commendation or no NM level of recognition?  [/quote]

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