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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MA, which typically has a slightly higher cut-off score than DC, or the same cut-off. My school was not an application HS and was in a predominantly working-class community. My siblings were also semifinalists, as was my spouse and his sibling. We all attended Ivies on full Pell Grants. No way we can be impressed with DC public's embarrassing results in this game. 
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Same, never higher. You don't need to be impressed. You clearly come from a family of great test takers. However, your family's success on this one test however many years ago is not a benchmark for anyone.

Typically, fewer than 4% of all test takers are even commended, and about 1% are NMSF, which means that an even tinier fraction of a percentage make the top cut of DC/MA/NJ/International, so it is ridiculous of you to pretend that soooo many more kids should be achieving this score in this one city. There were only 39 finalists in the whole city this year, public or private, and there are rarely more than 50 in this city any year. [/quote]

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