School didn't notify NMSF or Commended students

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@novamom2014

Wow…how big are your graduating classes?

I am curious what you attribute this “success” to? Does the school prep students for the exam? Is PSAT tutoring the norm? Is the school system so incredible that the cumulative education just lends itself to high scores by junior year? Is the school district just full of gifted students?

At our HS with average graduating classes of 375 we have maybe one SF or commended a year, some years nothing. I can’t wrap my head around having too many commended students to name…again, wow.

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A boy who I was a nanny for was a NMF. There were 12 (or maybe 16?) NMF in his class of about 100-120. Five of them, including my guy, had been going to school together since K, and went on to Yale together. Everyone agreed this was a fluke and a very special class. No way to really explain it or try to repeat it.

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Not uncommon. Regarding NMSF, I cannot understand why they insist on notifying the GC/school before directly notifying the kid at the same time. Not sure what they do for commended… but there are issues every single year here where a GC drops the ball, and a kid is scrambling to meet the NMF requirements because they didn’t even know they were NMSF and what the next steps are.

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If my BIL hadn’t heard about my nephew’s NMSF that had appeared in a local newsapaper from another parent on the sidelines of a soccer game, they probably never would have known. NM letter was still sitting unopened in the Principal’s office with very little time left to get the app in (a few days at most). My sis turned on her fury (!) and that school DID what it needed to do to get the app in (this was a few years ago). My nephew got a full-tuition scholarship, which was really important to them financially.

I knew my C was NMSF (this year), thanks to CC, and while I waited not-so patiently past the public press release day, I had to contact our school twice before my son got the letter. I think NMSC should be sending letters directly to the students and followup with an email to the school with the information/links that they need.

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^This.