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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NMSFs are the top 1% of PSAT takers.  ... the difference between 95 and 99th percentiles on the PSATs can literally be a question or two ....[/quote]
... 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.[/quote]
Out of curiosity, I just looked at some Nat'l Merit info. NMSFs are the top 1% of scores (16,000 out of 1.5 million). There is another category of "Commended" students that represent the top 2.3% of scores (34,000 of 1.5 million). I think you're both correct that a school having 15% of its seniors in the top 1% likely has many others in the top 2%. It's certainly a bell-curve of some sort. For example, according to StA (http://www.stalbansschool.org/newsStory.aspx?pageId=60295), although only five 2010 seniors are NMSFs, another 23 are Commended. That would mean that about 35% of the 2010 class scored in the top 2% in the country on the PSAT.

Of course, I suspect a similar bell-curve holds true for other schools as well.[/quote]

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