Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St Albans trounces everyone by a mile.

5/71.

Of course STA has the highest NMSF/senior ratio by a mile. It’s a boys school.

NMSFs are disproportionately boys, and that’s especially true in DC, where the cut score for NMSF is sky high: roughly 2/3 of the DC winners this year (and last year, when the cut score was just as high) are boys.

If you add the NCS and STA numbers together, you get 9/141, which is still the best in town but much more in line with the ratios at the gender-balanced Sidwell and the disproportionately-female Walls.

“If you add the NCS and STA numbers together, you get 9/141, which is still the best in town…”

No, that’s not better than Sidwell’s 8/125.

Correct, they’re essentially tied. (And LOL at me making an arithmetic error in this context!)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St Albans trounces everyone by a mile.

5/71.

Of course STA has the highest NMSF/senior ratio by a mile. It’s a boys school.

NMSFs are disproportionately boys, and that’s especially true in DC, where the cut score for NMSF is sky high: roughly 2/3 of the DC winners this year (and last year, when the cut score was just as high) are boys.

If you add the NCS and STA numbers together, you get 9/141, which is still the best in town but much more in line with the ratios at the gender-balanced Sidwell and the disproportionately-female Walls.

“If you add the NCS and STA numbers together, you get 9/141, which is still the best in town…”

No, that’s not better than Sidwell’s 8/125.

Anonymous wrote:why is Walls disproportionately female?

My STA boy did not get into Walls from a DCPS middle school (within the past two years). He was accepted to STA, Sidwell, the Scholars program at St. Johns, Gonzaga, etc. I can think of other boys like this--one is now at Sidwell, one at GDS. They had straight high As in DCPS middle school and were total academic kids (algebra 2 in middle school, etc). None got into Walls.

I don't think my kid would have chosen Walls and he's getting an outstanding education at STA but it's weird that Walls would be turning down highly accomplished boys and yet maintaining a gender imbalance.

Walls has been disproportionately female since long before they dropped the exam. Banneker and Duke are even more disproportionately female. I’d assume it’s some combination of (a) girls being more likely to prefer smaller schools with fewer sports/boys being more likely to prefer larger schools with more sports and (b) families being more likely to spend money to educate their sons.

Also, while I appreciate (and share) your bitterness about the end of the exam, your son’s experience in the post-exam Walls admissions process is irrelevant to these NMSF numbers, which are for the graduating class of 24 — the last class admitted to Walls by exam.

Anonymous wrote:Poor Jackson Reed.

??? It’s the only non private or non application school to have any NMSFs at 3. Sure…I guess BASIS is technically a lottery system.

Honestly…surprising that GDS, Maret and WIS only have 1 each. I guess Burke has 0.

why is Walls disproportionately female?

My STA boy did not get into Walls from a DCPS middle school (within the past two years). He was accepted to STA, Sidwell, the Scholars program at St. Johns, Gonzaga, etc. I can think of other boys like this--one is now at Sidwell, one at GDS. They had straight high As in DCPS middle school and were total academic kids (algebra 2 in middle school, etc). None got into Walls.

I don't think my kid would have chosen Walls and he's getting an outstanding education at STA but it's weird that Walls would be turning down highly accomplished boys and yet maintaining a gender imbalance.

Anonymous wrote:St Albans trounces everyone by a mile.

5/71.

Of course STA has the highest NMSF/senior ratio by a mile. It’s a boys school.

NMSFs are disproportionately boys, and that’s especially true in DC, where the cut score for NMSF is sky high: roughly 2/3 of the DC winners this year (and last year, when the cut score was just as high) are boys.

If you add the NCS and STA numbers together, you get 9/141, which is still the best in town but much more in line with the ratios at the gender-balanced Sidwell and the disproportionately-female Walls.

Poor Jackson Reed.

St Albans trounces everyone by a mile.

5/71.

Anonymous wrote:Walls definitely punches above its weight (class size of 150). Sidwell too.

Walls: ~150 seniors/5 NMSF
Sidwell: ~125 seniors/8 NMSF

Walls definitely punches above its weight (class size of 150). Sidwell too.

you are right - that was the wrong reddit page. But here is the correct one (on the same page as Delaware)!
https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/16kmgsx/delaware_national_merit_2024_2_pages/

It is last year’s list.

There is a reddit post with the list:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/xe83xz/list_of_semifinalists_by_state/

Following

Anyone have any info/list of names?