Anonymous
09/13/2025 19:05
Subject: National merit 2026?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Found the DC list. https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists My kid missed one question, but it was verbal, so didn’t make the list. He doesn’t care. Hopefully last SAT test tomorrow.
If your kid missed one question, they would have made it.
First of all, that list is from 2017.
Second of all, the minimum verbal score in DC (and Massachusetts and New Jersey) this year was 750. With the new shorter digital test, it is entirely possible to drop from 760 to 740 by missing one question.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 18:45
Subject: National merit 2026?
Anonymous wrote:Found the DC list. https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists My kid missed one question, but it was verbal, so didn’t make the list. He doesn’t care. Hopefully last SAT test tomorrow.
If your kid missed one question, they would have made it.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 16:34
Subject: Re:National merit 2026?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
FCPS and MCPS - Same Cut-Off (MCPS in Bold)
TJ 113
Richard Montgomery 37
Blair 36
Oakton 25
Langley 23
McLean 20
Chantilly 17
Poolesville 17
Marshall 15
Churchill 12
B-CC 11
Whitman 10
Madison 8
Woodson 8
Centreville 7
Walter Johnson 7
Wootton 7
Westfield 6
Fairfax 5
Lake Braddock 5
Springbrook 3
Wheaton 3
Edison 2
Einstein 2
Herndon 2
Northwest 2
West Springfield 2
Falls Church 1
Justice 1
Sherwood 1
South Lakes 1
West Potomac 1
Annandale 0
Blake 0
Clarksburg 0
Damascus 0
Gaithersburg 0
Hayfield 0
Kennedy 0
Lewis 0
Magruder 0
Northwood 0
Mount Vernon 0
Quince Orchard 0
Paint Branch 0
Robinson 0
Rockville 0
Seneca Valley 0
South County 0
Watkins Mill 0
Sometimes Maryland had a higher cutoff than Virginia, but this year it was the same. It looks like FCPS did considerably better than MCPS. One caveat is that TJ is a regional governor's school so it gets kids from outside Fairfax, but even so the FCPS numbers are better. It also looks like about 1/4 of the FCPS high schools had no NMSFs whereas it's more like 1/2 of the MCPS high schools with no NMSFs.
By the numbers, MCPS magnets did better. Roughly 20% of TJ seniors vs. 35% of RMIB and Blair seniors earned NMSF.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 16:08
Subject: Re:National merit 2026?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
FCPS and MCPS - Same Cut-Off (MCPS in Bold)
TJ 113
Richard Montgomery 37
Blair 36
Oakton 25
Langley 23
McLean 20
Chantilly 17
Poolesville 17
Marshall 15
Churchill 12
B-CC 11
Whitman 10
Madison 8
Woodson 8
Centreville 7
Walter Johnson 7
Wootton 7
Westfield 6
Fairfax 5
Lake Braddock 5
Springbrook 3
Wheaton 3
Edison 2
Einstein 2
Herndon 2
Northwest 2
West Springfield 2
Falls Church 1
Justice 1
Sherwood 1
South Lakes 1
West Potomac 1
Annandale 0
Blake 0
Clarksburg 0
Damascus 0
Gaithersburg 0
Hayfield 0
Kennedy 0
Lewis 0
Magruder 0
Northwood 0
Mount Vernon 0
Quince Orchard 0
Paint Branch 0
Robinson 0
Rockville 0
Seneca Valley 0
South County 0
Watkins Mill 0
Sometimes Maryland had a higher cutoff than Virginia, but this year it was the same. It looks like FCPS did considerably better than MCPS. One caveat is that TJ is a regional governor's school so it gets kids from outside Fairfax, but even so the FCPS numbers are better. It also looks like about 1/4 of the FCPS high schools had no NMSFs whereas it's more like 1/2 of the MCPS high schools with no NMSFs.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 14:06
Subject: Re:National merit 2026?
lol me poring over the list like... 
Anonymous
09/12/2025 21:02
Subject: National merit 2026?
Anonymous wrote:Found the DC list. https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists My kid missed one question, but it was verbal, so didn’t make the list. He doesn’t care. Hopefully last SAT test tomorrow.
This is from 2017
Anonymous
09/12/2025 20:36
Subject: National merit 2026?
Anonymous wrote:Found the DC list. https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists My kid missed one question, but it was verbal, so didn’t make the list. He doesn’t care. Hopefully last SAT test tomorrow.
This is from 2017?
Anonymous
09/12/2025 20:15
Subject: National merit 2026?
Found the DC list. https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/36-dc-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists My kid missed one question, but it was verbal, so didn’t make the list. He doesn’t care. Hopefully last SAT test tomorrow.
Anonymous
09/12/2025 16:13
Subject: Re:National merit 2026?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view
Is it just me, or does the MD NMSF list look a chunk smaller this year? Heavily concentrated in the magnet schools, as usual. I think this is the first year in a while that RMIB has more NMSFs than Blair.
Surprised that B-CC has more than most of the W schools. Only Churchill had one more than B-CC.
All the more impressive because BCC is several hundred kids smaller than Walter Johnson and Whitman.
WJ's semifinalist numbers are down significantly this year - from 12 for the class of '25 to 7 for the class of '26