| "In our case, the GC certainly found out his scores. It was a good thing. Then S told the teachers, senior year, where he had a relationship and they were cheering him on anyway. The ones who wrote his recommendations were obviously in this group."
Scores are automatically sent to the school. That doesn't mean that the GC --particularly of juniors-- will look at them or that teachers will know.
When we had a conference with older S's teachers fall of senior year (because older S had major senioritis), the teachers were surprised to hear that S's PSAT qualified him for NM commended.
S was getting a "D" in AP English, and was 99th percentile SAT in that. S was getting a D in part because S wasn't doing assignments that required him to look up any words that he didn't know in reading assignments. Truth was, S's vocabulary was extraordinary, so he didn't have much to look up.
S was getting a D in his math class, and his math teacher had heard that S was talented verbally, and thought that S just wasn't that talented in math. Meanwhile, S's SAT math scores were among the highest in his IB program. S just wasn't bothering to do math assignments or study.
Anyway, our sharing S's scores with the teachers helped them correctly view him as a smart, lazy student, instead of treating him like a student who was trying, but wasn't bright enough to do better. |