<p>On the website for NCSSM it states:
“By legislative mandate, NCSSM accepts only students from North Carolina and does so equally across all 13 congressional districts. The School’s alumni also represent all 100 counties, with around 90 counties represented in the student body at any time.”</p>
<p>There are about 325 juniors and 340 seniors at the school.
There are 13 districts.
Does that mean exactly 25 people are accepted from each district? Or is it flexible? What if less than 25 people or no people apply from a district?</p>
<p>I asked that exact question last year. This is what I was told and appeared to be how it worked out:</p>
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<li>All applicants are ranked within their district, independent of their high school.</li>
<li>A line is drawn either ~25 down or when applicants are not competitive enough to be successful at NCSSM, whichever comes first. The numbers of males/females are also taken into consideration due to dorm limitations.</li>
<li>When districts do not have ~25 competitive applicants, the “extra” slots are moved to a district where there are far too many qualified applicants for the number of allocated slots.</li>
</ol>
<p>Makes sense, so the really competitive district pick up some extra slots and all districts are represented by qualified applicants. Again, this is what I was told, I am not an Admissions Officer, but seemed to be what happened last year.</p>