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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I gotta be honest, this whole thread has been confusing as hell to me... 
I grew up in NYC in the in the (just barely) web era and attended a poorly funded school in a outer borough, and my recollection is that literally nobody - not one single human - gave a flying leap that I was a NMSF...yes, up to and including my very supportive immediate family and teachers. I got some official looking results mailing at home that mentioned that was my designation somewhere, and that was the end of that. 
I think I asked a teacher once if being a semifinalist meant something special and they said: nope, not really... that the only thing that counted was being a finalist - and in retrospect, they're right. 
Am I missing something here - what is this, rural Iowa? why do a few local high school students getting a reasonably decent (but not outstanding) score on a standardized test merit any kind of wide public notice?[/quote]

Because it is so difficult to get a qualifying score in DC. Sounds like it's much easier in NYC so agree, probably not impressive at all.[/quote]

Uh, the best public high schools in NYC are much, much better than the best public high schools in DC. [/quote]

Uh, that is irrelevant to the how the cutoff score for NMSF is set by state.[/quote]

Stuyvesant High School had 173 (!) semifinalists in one year, a couple years ago. Bronx Sci routinely has almost 50. How many did JR have? One? [/quote]

NY cut off is 223, while DC cut off is 225. Why is it easier to become NMSF in NY when it already has so many great schools?
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Because it's a statewide rather than a city-wide designation, so you're averaging the score across some great and some less great school systems.[/quote]

Why is DC so high?[/quote]

Unlike the state cutoffs, the DC cutoff is not based on the students who attend school here. It’s arbitrarily set as equal to the highest state cutoff. [/quote]

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