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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]

Yes, I just reviewed the NMSF averages at Sidwell, GDS and others, just as you said 10-15%.  Again, thanks for posting those numbers.

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