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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to redefine your idea of 'top college'. How can you have hundreds of thousands of 'top' students across the country not getting into 'top' colleges? There's no logic to thinking all of them SHOULD have gotten in. It's that your idea of what makes a 'top college' is simply wrong.[/quote]

There are not hundreds of thousands of top students. NMF across the country are only 15000 students. They usually have top grades and ACT/SAT scores to become a finalist along with high PSAT scores. These students have been shut out at many of the “top colleges”. Colleges take who they want based on criteria that has nothing to do with merit. [/quote]

If you think NMF is an accurate measurement of a top student then you don’t understand how it’s determined. It’s just ignorant. 
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I assume this poster thinks race is a better indicator of a top student.[/quote]

I think an overall appraisal of a students record is better than NMF. You realize that plenty of NMSF kids don’t bother continuing and that NMSF standards vary by state. You probably have a ton of kids in Maryland who would be NMSF if they lived in West Virginia. It’s just a incredibly stupid way of gauging anything. [/quote]
Yup.  Amazing marketing ploy by College Board!  People are obsessed by the results of the practice test rather than the actual SAT.[/quote]

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