Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s only 11 schools. Assuming WJ is the missing one?

Ouch. Why the WJ hate?

The person writing the release thought they put it under J when they got to W.

Just typical MCPS comms. Error prone. Although you have to wonder about someone so sloppy that they would leave out a HS with several NMSF.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s only 11 schools. Assuming WJ is the missing one?

Ouch. Why the WJ hate?

The person writing the release thought they put it under J when they got to W.

Anonymous wrote:That’s only 11 schools. Assuming WJ is the missing one?

Ouch. Why the WJ hate?

Anonymous wrote:do semifinalists win any money?

Nope. Neither do finalists. I had read about 50% end up with something, but that didn't seem to be the case in our area. Perhaps because a number of high scorers end up attending universities that don't participate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh Goodie, let's teach the kids that they have to beg from corporations to get college money. Well the thing is after they graduate with debt and no employment they can join the millions of people who will be in college debt and a low wage job for the rest of their lives. God bless Charlie. He taught us that college is a scam but their is no consumer protections for these education scams.

Take your political psychobabble elsewhere. This thread is about kids who are in the top 1% of their state.

Of the kids who TOOK THAT test. Not all at the top take the test. The nmsqt $ has retrictions, fyi.

Well, that's the data we have. How many students who are at the "top" by your estimation are not taking the PSAT? Please cite your source.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh Goodie, let's teach the kids that they have to beg from corporations to get college money. Well the thing is after they graduate with debt and no employment they can join the millions of people who will be in college debt and a low wage job for the rest of their lives. God bless Charlie. He taught us that college is a scam but their is no consumer protections for these education scams.

Take your political psychobabble elsewhere. This thread is about kids who are in the top 1% of their state.

Of the kids who TOOK THAT test. Not all at the top take the test. The nmsqt $ has retrictions, fyi.

do semifinalists win any money?

The names are available via the links posted up thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view

If you believe the link above, which seems fairly legitimate, we have the names already.

Is River Hill HS in Howard County a magnet, or is it just a neighborhood HS in Howard that's now out-performing the once-vaunted W schools in MCPS?

It's an area with affluent white and asian students. old news. Anything else?

Anonymous wrote:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view

If you believe the link above, which seems fairly legitimate, we have the names already.

Is River Hill HS in Howard County a magnet, or is it just a neighborhood HS in Howard that's now out-performing the once-vaunted W schools in MCPS?

Anonymous wrote:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view

If you believe the link above, which seems fairly legitimate, we have the names already.

The National Merit people say the list of semifinalists is distributed to the media. It's likely that someone in the media shared it with MCPS.

"Note: This press release was distributed to news media on September 9 with
a list of Semifinalists to encourage public recognition of these outstanding
students. The release is made available here to provide information about the
National Merit Scholarship Program, however the names of Semifinalists are
not posted on this website."

https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/26_meritsemi.pdf?gid=2&pgid=61&sessionid=29a06782-501e-4046-b9b0-d0d3a4f3e723&cc=1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eH4WYg3mc8FIb9IhZGqvbIbcVIjXziJF/view

If you believe the link above, which seems fairly legitimate, we have the names already.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS- what is up? Tell us the National
Merit Semi-Finalists, per school, please.

Around the time that I stopped being PIO for MCPS (2015), I believe the NMSC stopped providing the list of semi-finalists to school districts. They may have provided them to schools, but the lists were inaccurate. I think that's when MCPS stopped listing semi-finalists and only listed the finalists and winners. I was fine with it, honestly, but not everyone agreed! (Shocking, I know...) Some districts will gather the names and publish them.

Dana Tofig
MCPS Public Information Officer (2009-2015).

Anonymous wrote:Oh Goodie, let's teach the kids that they have to beg from corporations to get college money. Well the thing is after they graduate with debt and no employment they can join the millions of people who will be in college debt and a low wage job for the rest of their lives. God bless Charlie. He taught us that college is a scam but their is no consumer protections for these education scams.

Take your political psychobabble elsewhere. This thread is about kids who are in the top 1% of their state.

Oh Goodie, let's teach the kids that they have to beg from corporations to get college money. Well the thing is after they graduate with debt and no employment they can join the millions of people who will be in college debt and a low wage job for the rest of their lives. God bless Charlie. He taught us that college is a scam but their is no consumer protections for these education scams.