Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2022, the year with the asterisk.

How did the other DC private schools do in 2022?

Glad you asked. In the “year with the asterisk” GDS, Maret, NCS, and STA did not have 16 NMSF COMBINED. But I’m sure you have an excuse for that too.

Sidwell gets hated on everyday in this forum.

My kids are at one of the above schools (not Sidwell) and the college counselors do not really encourage or even mention trying it do well on the PSAT or any mention of the NSMF. Point being my child and others are not striving for it. In fact my child did better on SAT than two kids that received the award. My child’s score went up after PSAT as they were sick and I don’t even know if they submitted it.

Point being for whatever reason some of the top students are not focusing on this anymore. I don’t know why.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Looks like Potomac and Sidwell are the clear winners here....nobody else even close...their student sizes aren't that much differnet with the exception of maybe Basis

STA and Sidwell are tied.
STA: 5/70 = 6%
Sidwell: 8/125 = 6%

Potomac doesn't count because the cut-off in VA is so much lower. It's like getting an extra 10 questions wrong.

Compare to about 40 percent of the Blair magnet (yes, I know MD cutoff was 221)

MD is allotted ~300 NMSF, while DC is allotted only ~30. The MD schools will always have more by design.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Can you please post a link to where these NMSF semifinalists and schools are listed?

You can google it. The list is on reddit by state

Anonymous wrote:This is BS that there is a huge divide between a 219 and 223 Selection Index. It is certainly not 10 questions!!

Also, who is to say the kids in VA didn’t get a high selection index? My kid had a 224 in a VA public and would have qualified by DC standards. You have no idea how much the VA kids could have been over the cutoff index.

The lower the cutoff, the easier it is to qualify. Your kid is a genius but that doesn’t change the facts.

Anonymous wrote:This is BS that there is a huge divide between a 219 and 223 Selection Index. It is certainly not 10 questions!!

Also, who is to say the kids in VA didn’t get a high selection index? My kid had a 224 in a VA public and would have qualified by DC standards. You have no idea how much the VA kids could have been over the cutoff index.

no, it's definitely about 10 questions.

This is BS that there is a huge divide between a 219 and 223 Selection Index. It is certainly not 10 questions!!

Also, who is to say the kids in VA didn’t get a high selection index? My kid had a 224 in a VA public and would have qualified by DC standards. You have no idea how much the VA kids could have been over the cutoff index.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Looks like Potomac and Sidwell are the clear winners here....nobody else even close...their student sizes aren't that much differnet with the exception of maybe Basis

STA and Sidwell are tied.
STA: 5/70 = 6%
Sidwell: 8/125 = 6%

Potomac doesn't count because the cut-off in VA is so much lower. It's like getting an extra 10 questions wrong.

Compare to about 40 percent of the Blair magnet (yes, I know MD cutoff was 221)

Why do you keep posting this everywhere? Blair has nearly 800 kids per class. So its actually about the same percentage as the top privates, about 5%.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Looks like Potomac and Sidwell are the clear winners here....nobody else even close...their student sizes aren't that much differnet with the exception of maybe Basis

STA and Sidwell are tied.
STA: 5/70 = 6%
Sidwell: 8/125 = 6%

Potomac doesn't count because the cut-off in VA is so much lower. It's like getting an extra 10 questions wrong.

Compare to about 40 percent of the Blair magnet (yes, I know MD cutoff was 221)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Wow these are pathetic numbers compare to some of the public schools in FX/MoCo.

VA has a cut off of 219 vs DC's 223. That's like the difference between getting 2 questions wrong total vs 10.

it's light years easier to get NMSF in VA.

Whaaaaaagghhhh!

I don’t think kids/schools prepare for the PSAT now that almost every college is test optional. And that also means the NMSF designation will become even less relevant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Looks like Potomac and Sidwell are the clear winners here....nobody else even close...their student sizes aren't that much differnet with the exception of maybe Basis

You shouldn’t compare VA & MD privates to DC privates. They both have a lower cutoff score than DC.

That's not even the point. The cut score isn't really the metric for states, though it is for DC. The states get a set % of the 16,000, no matter the score. so roughly the same number of kids in each state will be NMSF every year. The cut score is whatever that last kid in the list gets.

DC kids have to meet the highest national cut score, and the number who do it will vary year to year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Looks like Potomac and Sidwell are the clear winners here....nobody else even close...their student sizes aren't that much differnet with the exception of maybe Basis

What is wrong with you?

Anonymous wrote:DC
St. Alban’s 5
NCS 2
GDS 1
Sidwell 8
Gonzaga 1
St. Anselm’s Abbey 1
Maret 1
WIS 1

Maryland
Holton 5
Landon 1
Heights 1
Stone Ridge 1
Bullis 2

Virginia
Potomac School 7
St. Stephens/St. Agnes 1
Basis McLean 3
Madeira 1

Can you please post a link to where these NMSF semifinalists and schools are listed?

Anonymous wrote:Ideaventions in Reston: 3

This is impressive. That’s like 25% of the class. I toured tha school and it is very rigorous, too rigorous for my daughter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell had 16 for class of 2022. It was a very strong cohort.

Class of 2022 was the class year when most students couldn't take the PSAT at all, and so they allowed, but did not well-publicize, an alternate entry option.

While this is true, most kids at Sidwell in class of 2022 actually took the PSAT on site at Sidwell. My kid did and is one of the 16. If you took it on site at Sidwell, alternate entry did not apply. I am embarrassed to admit we did not know about alternate entry at the time. It was a strong class IMHO.

What college your kid attends?

Class of 2022 was a strong class. Unfortunatly, they were also a victim of Covid so did not do as well as they should have. There were too many spillovers for kids who took gap years so it was an espeically hard year to apply to college.