<p>NoVa</p>
<p>I think we can all agree on that</p>
<p>hatersunite, you actually are an idiot if you say DC has no character. And I guess me calling you that is pretentious and boring? As is everything else in my life. Maybe I should just move to any other place in the country since this area sucks. </p>
<p>And tons of areas of preplanned…most are in modern times…Stop throwing around the word pretentious when you don’t know what it means.</p>
<p>
Charles…</p>
<p>I think Fairfax county, Va. On a more broad scale Northern Va and the DC area.</p>
<p>[2009</a> top high schools by National Merit Semifinalists | GetListy!!!](<a href=“http://www.getlisty.com/preview/2009-top-high-schools-by-national-merit-semi-finalists/]2009”>http://www.getlisty.com/preview/2009-top-high-schools-by-national-merit-semi-finalists/)</p>
<p>Get rid of magnet/private/special schools because they attract top students from a wide area.</p>
<ol>
<li>Lynbrook HS CA — 58 (Fremont Union High School District, CA)</li>
<li>Mission San Jose HS CA — 54 (Fremont Union High School District, CA)</li>
<li>Monta Vista HS CA — 53 (Fremont Union High School District, CA)</li>
<li>Palo Alto HS CA — 46 (Palo Alto Unified School District, CA)</li>
<li>Henry M. Gunn HS CA — 42 (Palo Alto Unified School District, CA)</li>
<li>Bellaire HS TX — 37 (Houston Independent School District, TX)</li>
<li>Conestoga HS PA — 37 (Tredyffrin/Easttown School District, PA)</li>
<li>Palos Verdes Peninsula HS CA — 36 (Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District, CA)</li>
<li>Northview HS GA — 35 (Fulton County Schools, GA)</li>
<li>Plano HS TX — 35 (Plano Independent School District, TX)</li>
<li>Westwood HS TX — 35 (Round Rock Independent School District, TX)</li>
<li>Carmel HS IN — 34 (Carmel Clay School District, IN)</li>
<li>Plano West HS TX — 32 (Plano Independent School District, TX)</li>
<li>Westlake HS TX — 32 (Eanes Independent School District, TX)</li>
<li>Pioneer HS MI — 32 (Ann Arbor School District, MI)</li>
</ol>
<p>Yes, I messed up those numbers.</p>
<p>So the top districts are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Fremont Union High School District, CA</li>
<li>Palo Alto Unified School District, CA
3 (tie). Houston Independent School District, TX
3 (tie). Tredyffrin/Easttown School District, PA</li>
<li>Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District, CA</li>
<li>Plano Independent School District, TX
7 (tie). Fulton County Schools, GA
7 (tie). Round Rock Independent School District, TX</li>
<li>Carmel Clay School District, IN
10 (tie). Eanes Independent School District, TX
10 (tie). Ann Arbor School District, MI</li>
</ol>
<p>Yes, I spent WAY too much time putting that together.</p>
<ol>
<li>Henry M. Gunn HS CA — 42 (Palo Alto Unified School District, CA)</li>
</ol>
<p>Sigh…</p>
<p>You go there?</p>
<p>why a sigh?
is it because it wasn’t good enough?
If that’s the case, it’s understandable i guess cuz Gunn is hella good</p>
<p>No… I’m a parent in No Cal, and there are just so many suicides there.</p>
<p>^^^^That isn’t really the best way to measure school districts…</p>
<p>Yeah smaller schools won’t have any chance regardless of academic quality</p>
<p>Qualifying scores for NMS (semi-finalist) by state.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/696125-psat-scores-national-merit-semifinalists-2009-h-s-class-2010-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/696125-psat-scores-national-merit-semifinalists-2009-h-s-class-2010-a.html</a></p>
<p>It is a good way… Smaller schools don’t need a shot. If a school has 6 students and 1 is a NMSF, is it really a high achieving area? The question isn’t what areas have the smartest students on average.</p>
<p>It’s not a good way. if you have a high school with 6,000 students, 5,940 of them can be crap and they would still be the top of the list. and areas with lots of small towns and high schools wont have a lot of nmsf’s each, but together they would have a lot…</p>
<p>“It’s not a good way. if you have a high school with 6,000 students, 5,940 of them can be crap and they would still be the top of the list. and areas with lots of small towns and high schools wont have a lot of nmsf’s each, but together they would have a lot…”</p>
<p>That’s why I did it by school district, not school.</p>
<p>However, I did not previously realize it varied by state. That would make it a bad methodology.</p>
<p>Montana
Texas
Alabama
Kansas
Oklahoma
Alaska.
Colorado
Louisiana
Missouri
Mississippi</p>
<p>New Jersey/Connecticut/Massachusetts/New York usually have very high achieving students.</p>
<p>National Merit is an awful method of ranking.</p>