Wow, Unknown High School kicked ass!

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Anonymous wrote:I might be missing something, but I thought this was just a list of student who were national merit finalist, who then decided to take the step of applying for presidential. Is it more or different from that?

Initial candidacy is based on SAT or ACT scores. https://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/about.html

OR arts
OR career and technical
OR (and this is the big one) nomination by the state education head honcho or a sponsoring entity. This is the "it's who the school knows" category and it is how, year to year, this school or that school will get a lot of love from the powers that be in DC.

Anonymous wrote:I might be missing something, but I thought this was just a list of student who were national merit finalist, who then decided to take the step of applying for presidential. Is it more or different from that?

Initial candidacy is based on SAT or ACT scores. https://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/about.html

Nice of them to tell the TJ kids

It's based on the residential address of the student.

*kicked butt omg autocorrect. 🤣

List of candidates, not finalists. Also really weird because if you look through DC, MD, and VA, some schools have candidates in at least two of those categories, like they couldn’t decide exactly where Maret or Holton are. But congrats to MD publics Blair and Whitman, which licked butt. TJ of course blew everyone away.

Totally unrelated to nmf

I might be missing something, but I thought this was just a list of student who were national merit finalist, who then decided to take the step of applying for presidential. Is it more or different from that?

Isn’t that a candidate list? Only about 160 kids actually become Presidential Scholars.

What is this?

Wow - and School Without Walls rocked it too! Congratulations to all the winners!

https://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2023/candidates.pdf

Where is the list? How did Sidwell, GDS, NCS, Jackson-Reed do?

Congratulations to WIS with a record eight Presidential Scholars, besting all area private schools!! Amazing and says something about the high quality students at WIS. Great job!!!