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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This list makes no sense if you compare it to previous years. Sidwell has more finalists than it normally would. St. Albans only one. GDS only one. None for Gonzaga (which typically has 5ish). Nothing for Walls.

My kids don't go to any of these schools, but, I wonder what the deal is. This isn't something I'd be bragging about over at Sidwell. I think this list is really weird and possibly incomplete or manipulated in some way.[/quote]

Has anyone considered that the parents of the top public school students transferred them to open private schools during the pandemic and Sidwell got the top crop (maybe because they had more open seats, maybe because they answered the phone calls first, maybe because they were more accommodating).

You'd of course have to ask a Sidwell parent if most of these 16 Semifinalists were transfers but regardless I think this is a job well done and should be celebrated.

Congrats to Sidwell! (And if my pandemic theory is right - they should start poaching star students every year  :lol: )[/quote]

Sidwell US parent here. This transfer theory did not happen. There were no “pandemic openings.”

We are just one data point but our teen was not contacted via email or verbal regarding PSAT/SAT swap. [/quote]

Interesting. So what do you think the cause of the difference was?[/quote]

Well somehow it caught on at Sidwell this year that you could manually submit your SAT score to be in the running for NMSF and many kids did.

If it wasn't the college counseling department at department at Sidwell that suggested kids do this it was 1)savvy parents 2)kids themselves.  I know if my daughter's friends did this, she would want to do this. 
It's not surprising that it became "a thing".  Whereas at other school no one submitted scores.

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We never submitted our DDs score and she would have made the cut off. I had no idea this was a thing.[/quote]

What school?[/quote]

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