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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re NMSF -- if "commended" is a nationally normed designation (and I think it is), that would enable you to make a better comparison across schools.  In any event, it's a better measure of what you're trying to capture (i.e. cohort)[/quote]

Not sure why people are getting hung up on the cut-off point about NMSF -- MD, DC, and Virginia are ALL THREE in the top six for cut-offs, along with California, Massachusetts, and New York.  It is really hard to get in any of these states.  But if you really want to be hyper-technical you can look at the mark for "commended," which is the same everywhere (201), which is still a very good score.  To pick two schools at random, last year Potomac had 28 "commended" students and NCS had 32.

I'm not certain why people are so hung up on this, all the top area schools do well.  Here is a table compiled over the last five years of all NMSF winners.  It shows that GDS, Maret, and Georgetown Prep are average or lower among the top schools in terms of percentage of NMSF.  Are we all going to conclude these schools are suddenly not good schools?  Of course not, this is just one piece of information.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnukIDABt_JKdDdZYXlQbnFUQ0VfMHRpTFp1SUIxS2c&hl=en_US#gid=0

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