On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:22:05 -0400, ronsimpson wrote:

I hate to burst any bubbles but, the school with the highest number of National Merit Finalists and highest number of 1600 SATs is a Public High School (Jefferson High in Fairfax, VA)

This probably just means that they have a good SAT cram course. Ditto for the NMS. I've run into people who've done well on the SATs and have been rather underwhelmed. In my opinion it's like MIPS: Meaningless Indicator # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # <cadams@acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY" "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them." --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)