Anonymous wrote:Published list (on September 13, 2017) of every single 2018 National Merit Semifinalist in the entire State of California from the Mercury News.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/13/national-merit-scholarships-2018-semifinalists-named/

But still nothing for the District of Columbia. I suppose it is too much trouble.

Call the Georgetown Patch. They are the news outlet that usually publishes the DC list.

Published list (on September 13, 2017) of every single 2018 National Merit Semifinalist in the entire State of California from the Mercury News.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/13/national-merit-scholarships-2018-semifinalists-named/

But still nothing for the District of Columbia. I suppose it is too much trouble.

State of Virginia: PSAT Index Score Cutoff (222)

Alexandria Public Schools

http://www.acpsk12.org/news/?p=6908

T.C. Williams High School (1): Madeline Waldhoff

State of Virginia: PSAT Index Score Cutoff (222)

Arlington County Public Schools:

https://www.apsva.us/post/2018-national-merit-scholarship-semifinalists-named/

Washington-Lee High School (7):
Christopher-Thomas Cordero; Johnston French; Jack Horton; Jayaprakash Kambhampaty; Benjamin McCracken; Kerry Meade; Lillian Wieland

Yorktown High School (4):
Reagan Briere; Cassius Close; Elizabeth Discenza; William Golovaha-Hicks

I think it is perfectly nice to have the names listed, especially since it is being done for all the schools. School numbers alone are nothing more than competitive bragging rights, whereas names recognize the achievements of individuals.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy crap! Back in fall 1991, the qualifying PSAT score for MD was 204. Makes you wonder how much of this is (1) the test getting easier vs. (2) kids becoming better coached for it.

It doesn't really matter - the qualifying score is set so that it captures the top 1/2% of test takers in each state.

Is this true? That seems like a really small cohort to me. I received a national merit scholarship 30 years ago ($2000 per year, IIRC), but so did my brother, and his scores were substantially better than mine. I would have guessed that it was top 5% or so.

Top 5% is nothing anymore, you have to be in the top 0.5% of higher even. That's not a good use of someone's time. My DD got a 98 percentile without a prep class or paying for pricey tutoring . She spent her summer working a meaningful job instead of taking an intense summer prep class or prepping herself which was a much better idea for her future. And now she's just taking the ACT, no SAT. I'm okay with that.

The PSAT seems less honorable now and more about adding to the standardized testing money machine. Our friend's kid was one of the smartest kids around and was accepted at all ivies and we never heard anything about nms. I'm sure he got one - right? - but it's not a big deal anymore. They should find a way to make it more of a meaningful honor and less of a rich people prep class kind of thing, though maybe that's impossible .

I'm sure that the 145 semifinalists at TJ all took a rich kids prep class to et the honor. You sound very bitter. How about recognizing there may be a lot of very bright kids who are being recognized?

Anonymous wrote:National Cathedral School (4):

Alex Giannattasio, Anna May Mott, Brett Pearson, and Paulina Song

https://twitter.com/NatCathedralSch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://ncs.cathedral.org/page/news-detail?pk=1122755

So weird to write kids names down!

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Anonymous wrote:Holy crap! Back in fall 1991, the qualifying PSAT score for MD was 204. Makes you wonder how much of this is (1) the test getting easier vs. (2) kids becoming better coached for it.

It doesn't really matter - the qualifying score is set so that it captures the top 1/2% of test takers in each state.

Is this true? That seems like a really small cohort to me. I received a national merit scholarship 30 years ago ($2000 per year, IIRC), but so did my brother, and his scores were substantially better than mine. I would have guessed that it was top 5% or so.

Top 5% is nothing anymore, you have to be in the top 0.5% of higher even. That's not a good use of someone's time. My DD got a 98 percentile without a prep class or paying for pricey tutoring . She spent her summer working a meaningful job instead of taking an intense summer prep class or prepping herself which was a much better idea for her future. And now she's just taking the ACT, no SAT. I'm okay with that.

The PSAT seems less honorable now and more about adding to the standardized testing money machine. Our friend's kid was one of the smartest kids around and was accepted at all ivies and we never heard anything about nms. I'm sure he got one - right? - but it's not a big deal anymore. They should find a way to make it more of a meaningful honor and less of a rich people prep class kind of thing, though maybe that's impossible .

National Cathedral School (4):

Alex Giannattasio, Anna May Mott, Brett Pearson, and Paulina Song

https://twitter.com/NatCathedralSch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://ncs.cathedral.org/page/news-detail?pk=1122755

Anonymous wrote:Here you go for FCPS; TJ 145.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/two-hundred-twenty-three-fcps-students-named-2018-national-merit-semifinalists

Chantilly High School: Adam Batori, Alvin Cao, Peter Liu, Benton Pelczynski, and Eli Rothleder.

Centreville High School: Andrew Dettmer, Nathan Kim, Andrew Lee, Jenny Lee, and Christine Yu.

Fairfax High School: David Fried.

Herndon High School: Michael Barth.

Lake Braddock Secondary School: Sinclaire Jones, Amanda Nguyen, Elizabeth Smith, and Eric Smith.

Langley High School: Matthew Angles, Jordan Bell, Jean Cho, Shayan Golshani, Karina Holbrook, Dong Kim, Torrey Snyder, Sophia Song, Chenming Wang, Justin Yoo and Ashley Zhang.

James Madison High School: Sudharsan Balasubramani, Claire Hogan, Allison Janowski, Revati Joshi, Samantha Lane, Benjamin Liu, Lauren McCormick and Shankar Radhakrishnan.

George C. Marshall High School: Oliver Church, Donald Daniel, Mikayla Huffman, Isaac Karachunsky, Grant Martin, Holly Waters and Shaun Yu.

McLean High School: Hannah Alexander, Royce Kang, Bradley Kim, Justin Kim, Keerthi Medicherla, Careniena Opem, Jillian Pincus, Siddarth Shankar, Philena Sun, Eli Wassertzug and Richard Yu.

Oakton High School: Bruce Bui, Kira Buttrey, Maggie Chen, Ethan Huang, Courtney Tern and Jessie Yu.

Robinson Secondary School: Siddharth Bhatnagar, William Taft, and Julia Van Dyke.

South Lakes High School: Rohan Chandra and Eshaan Sarup.

Stuart High School: Vivian Tran.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Anjam Alam, Nadia Ali, Bharath Alladi, Seungwon Baek, Naman Baraya, Nicholas Begotka, Matthew Bergman, Saiteja Bevara, Saket Bikmal, Karthik Budharaju, My-Linh Budzien, Vincent Carter, Shreya Chappidi, Nathan Chen, Kelly Cho, Philip Cho, Soren Christensen, Quinn Ciccoretti, Margaret Covey, Rounak Das, Eric Deng, Leo Desruelle, Wonwook Do, Adelia Du, Katherine Du, William Gao, Kyle Gatesman, Joanna Goykhberg, Juhi Gudavalli, Kevin Guo, Tanvi Haldankar, Timothy Han, Caroline Hatcher, Emily He, William Hoganson, Grant Hollinger, Natalie Homnyom, Charles Huang, Minyoung Hwang, Amiti Jain, Paarth Jain, Sachin Jain, Christopher Jiang, Olivia Johann, Max Judish, Akshaj Kadaveru, Ajith Kanuri, Claude Karaki, Harriet Khang, Brandon Kim, Clara Kim, Hannah Kim, John Kim, Joseph Kim, Dylan Klapper, Kavya Kopparapu, Aneesh Kotnana, John Krause-Steinrauf, Srinidhi Krishnan, Minna Kuriakose, Justin Lasker, Kevin Le, Joshua Lee, Mia Lei, Robert Lei, Michael Li, Renee Li, Eric Lin, Linda Lin, Ethan Liu, Timothy Liu, Maxwell Lord, Anna Lulushi, Jessica Ly, Rachel Ma, Matthew Maribojoc, Madeleine Min, Jainam Modh, Varun Mosur, Anthony Murphy-Neilson, William Musk, Henna Nam, Liam Nolan, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, Wassim Omais, Richard Pan, Mihir Patel, Ashwin Pathi, Alex Peng, Jiaxuan Qin, Emily Quan, Rahul Rajan, Soham Ray, Akhil Rekulapelli, Uzma Rentia, Joshua Sahaya Arul, Varun Saraswathula, Nikhil Sardana, Aditya Sarkar, Nikita Saxena, Maxina Sheft, Edward Shen, Arpitha Shenoy, Aaditya Singh, Kamron Soldozy, William Spencer, Arvind Srinivasan, Tarunikha Sriram, Michael Stepniczka, Vandana Subramanian, William Sun, Sadhana Suri, Sarkis Ter Martirosyan, Neil Thistlethwaite, Frank Tian, Rohan Valluri, Niharika Vattikonda, Artemis Veizi, Keely Wan, Andrew Wang, Emily Wang, Franklyn Wang, Jade Wang, Lilian Wang, Yuyang Wang, Millan Weiman, James Xiao, Sherry Xie, Ruiran Xun, David Yan, Pranav Yanambakkam, Daniel Yang, Katherine Yang, Michael Yang, Wendy Yin, Lydia You, Grace Young, Anna Zhang, Charles Zhang, Dean Zhang, Justin Zhang, Christine Zhao, Naitian Zhou, Brian Zhu and Kevin Zou.

West Springfield High School: Genieva Beckstrand and Jonathon Ranieri.

Westfield High School: Celi Johnson, Mason Joiner, Aditi Mittal, and Hayley Shankle.

Woodson High School: Hyung Chang, Andrew Huh, Diego Pedulla-Smith, Kelly Ruffner, Morgan Ruffner, Kate Schneider, and Rachel Zhang.

Here you go for FCPS; TJ 145.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/two-hundred-twenty-three-fcps-students-named-2018-national-merit-semifinalists

State of Virginia: PSAT Index Score Cutoff (222)

There are numerous northern Virginia public schools National Merit Semifinalists in the link provides above. Congratulations to all those northern Virginia public schools NMSF students who in truth overwhelmingly dominate the list and are therefore far too many to name here. Well done!

As is the Private Schools Forum I will go ahead and list those northern Virginia private schools and students.

Northern Virginia Private Schools National Merit Semifinalists:

Bishop Ireton (1): Braden Hoagland

Madeira (1): Raegan Thornton

Potomac (3): Madeline Cunnion, Tracey Miles, Jasmine Terrones

Saint Stephens and Saint Agnes (2): John Dewhurst, Charlotte Fontham

Haven't found a link yet, but Montgomery Blair High School posted on Twitter about having 46 Nat'l Merit Semifinalists -- the most in Md.

This article includes a link that takes you to the list of all the semifinalists in VA: https://pwcs.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=340225&pageId=9675217

If anyone finds one for MD or DC, please share!