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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NMSFs are the top 1% of PSAT takers.  So having 15% of students as NMSFs seems like a good performance.  I suspect a very high percentage of the class at most of these schools is in the 90th percentile and above.  Also for those of you who have kids this age - the difference between 95 and 99th percentiles on the PSATs can literally be a question or two.

And for you supercritical people - how many of you were NMSFs?  I wasn't and I went to one of the big 3.  In fact 90% of my class wasnt either including many kids who went to ivy league schools.  NMSFs don't seem to be the only predictor of success.[/quote]

I went to an Ivy League school as well, and not only was I never an NMSF, I didn't even know what one was.  All my sisters went to Ivys (neither of parents went to elite colleges), and none of us were NMSFs.

I always take this stuff with a grain of salt.  It's one indicator of academic success.  But as you say, you have no idea how close some of the kids were to making NMSF.  It could be (not saying it is, but just as an example) that TJ has 35% NMSFs and the other 65% are far below the cut off, while at STA 15% are but 50% are within 1 or 2 percentage points of the cutoff.  You really can't go only by that, but I also agree TJ has impressive numbers by most counts, and that I think speaks more about TJ than it does STA.[/quote]

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