Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

Nobody cares what you think.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

True that no one cares. Not true that it's meaningless bc I got a bunch of scholarship offers as a result.

Nobody gives a shit about being a national merit semifinalist, and I'm speaking from experience. It's the most overrated award out there.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so sad by the lack of information in DC around this -- every other county in the country has announced this on the local news. We just don't have local news anymore?

This feels indicative of some kind of breakdown in the city. No one is watching and no one cares.

Yes, we don't have a local newspaper. Results were once announced by the NW Current and then the DC Patch but neither exist anymore.

I am also sad about this. Maybe Jeff can ask for the results since no one else cares.

Actually not a bad idea. This is the closest thing to local education news now. Jeff, are you reading?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so sad by the lack of information in DC around this -- every other county in the country has announced this on the local news. We just don't have local news anymore?

This feels indicative of some kind of breakdown in the city. No one is watching and no one cares.

Yes, we don't have a local newspaper. Results were once announced by the NW Current and then the DC Patch but neither exist anymore.

I am also sad about this. Maybe Jeff can ask for the results since no one else cares.

My understanding is that results are available upon request to those in the local press (and perhaps are automatically sent if the publication has a history of publishing them).
Then a PDF of the state's results or a full booklet of all the US results are also sent to each high school. When DC results have been made public in recent years (and were posted on DCUM) it's because a Reddit poster had access to the full booklet and took photographs of the pages by state OR someone local knew someone in the administrative office at a high school or central office and got their hands on the DC PDF.

Oh never mind. Apparently principals were not mailed the national book of names this year so there is no chance of the results being leaked on Reddit like it was each of the last 5 years. It's now up to the 1)local media in DC to request the list 2) someone to get their hands on the DC PDF that was sent to your own school.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so sad by the lack of information in DC around this -- every other county in the country has announced this on the local news. We just don't have local news anymore?

This feels indicative of some kind of breakdown in the city. No one is watching and no one cares.

Yes, we don't have a local newspaper. Results were once announced by the NW Current and then the DC Patch but neither exist anymore.

I am also sad about this. Maybe Jeff can ask for the results since no one else cares.

My understanding is that results are available upon request to those in the local press (and perhaps are automatically sent if the publication has a history of publishing them).
Then a PDF of the state's results or a full booklet of all the US results are also sent to each high school. When DC results have been made public in recent years (and were posted on DCUM) it's because a Reddit poster had access to the full booklet and took photographs of the pages by state OR someone local knew someone in the administrative office at a high school or central office and got their hands on the DC PDF.

Anonymous wrote:I'm so sad by the lack of information in DC around this -- every other county in the country has announced this on the local news. We just don't have local news anymore?

This feels indicative of some kind of breakdown in the city. No one is watching and no one cares.

+1 😞
Our public schools students deserve to be celebrated!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so sad by the lack of information in DC around this -- every other county in the country has announced this on the local news. We just don't have local news anymore?

This feels indicative of some kind of breakdown in the city. No one is watching and no one cares.

Yes, we don't have a local newspaper. Results were once announced by the NW Current and then the DC Patch but neither exist anymore.

I am also sad about this. Maybe Jeff can ask for the results since no one else cares.

Anonymous wrote:I'm so sad by the lack of information in DC around this -- every other county in the country has announced this on the local news. We just don't have local news anymore?

This feels indicative of some kind of breakdown in the city. No one is watching and no one cares.

Yes, we don't have a local newspaper. Results were once announced by the NW Current and then the DC Patch but neither exist anymore.

I'm so sad by the lack of information in DC around this -- every other county in the country has announced this on the local news. We just don't have local news anymore?

This feels indicative of some kind of breakdown in the city. No one is watching and no one cares.

Anonymous wrote:Speak for yourself. I'm interested in where the NMSFs amalgamate in the DMV. SWW does the best in DC. Then maybe BASIS. But in the big picture, Sidwell and TJ destroy them all by a long shot.

TJ is NOT a DC public school and by default a STEM high school. Sidwell is a private religious DC school with 60K yearly tuition. You can move to VA and send your kids to TJ or Sidwell and go to the private schools board.

However, this is about DC public schools. Let’s keep it about our schools.

Speak for yourself. I'm interested in where the NMSFs amalgamate in the DMV. SWW does the best in DC. Then maybe BASIS. But in the big picture, Sidwell and TJ destroy them all by a long shot.

Why is there a post debating private vs suburban schools on the DCPS/PCS board? You’re way off topic.

Anonymous wrote:Parents do not send their children to private for one output that you consider “little”. They send their kids to private because of tradition, a rite of passage, for the experience, to be surrounded by peers of similar backgrounds, for classroom management and better academics overall, structure and conformity, to network and PR, and so on and so forth..
it is the public school mindset that addresses things in such a way: If I put X-money in, I have to get one output.

Not buying it. They mostly send their kids to private schools for smaller classes and a cocoon environment, where teens are closely monitored and sheltered. Better academics overall? Better than DCPS and DCPCS, yes. But in the burbs, better academics are mainly found in test-in public magnets (TJ, Montgomery Blair STEM etc.) and IB Diploma programs where students need to clear an academic bar to qualify for Diploma classes (BCC, Washington-Liberty, Fairfax etc.). TJ has more NMSFs than any private school in the area by a long shot. Sidwell will get 8-12% NMSFs while TJ still gets 20-25%, even with the watering down of admission standards 4 or 5 years ago.

Looks like commended was 210 this year? Both Wyoming and North Dakota had 0 commended students but had a 210 cut off. South Dakota had a 212 cut off plus 6 commended students.