<p>@FellsMom, thanks for confirming @jbourne’s guess. It is very helpful. :)</p>
<p>@jbourne that is likely what happened. Sorry if I sent people scrambling to computers! I asked my D this morning if she had logged in and looked at the application (got her letter Friday) and she said no; hadn’t had time and probably wouldn’t today. She has been away from home most of the day so I didn’t even think about her logging in when I got the consent email.</p>
<p>Again - my apologies. This process is full of enough angst already and I didn’t mean to add more.</p>
<p>We haven’t yet received the letter so my son hasn’t logged in, but I did confirm with the principal yesterday that my son is a NMSF in Texas with a 219 (as we already knew from this forum). No email from NMSC here.</p>
<p>Yep, the email only comes after the student’s login and password are provided via the official NM letter, either received through US Mail or the school.</p>
<p>D2 is definitely in with 230 but hasn’t heard anything from her boarding school yet, and no parent email. So breathe easy…</p>
<p>We have not received an email. My daughter has been notified about SF status but has not yet received any paperwork from her school so has not logged in to the NMSC website.</p>
<p>We homeschool and received the letter this week. My son logged in a couple of days ago and started his part of the application. I have not received an email.</p>
<p>That’s OK, DiWantsToTravel. Many of us are desperate for info and I know you were trying to be helpful.</p>
<p>greatfallsmom, I can commiserate. My daughter has a 223 in NJ and as you know, the NJ cutoff score last year was at a historic high of 224, the same cutoff as DC and MA. I’ve given up on hearing from her school. My plan is to call the NMSC when they open on Sept 10.</p>
<p>I am encouraged by the across-the-board drops for state cutoffs. I think after last year, many of us were feeling that NMSF would eventually only be for those with perfect scores. So the drop is good news, although with the curve, the cutoff in high-cutoff states does require a near perfect score. I hope NMSC will make the test harder, especially in the math and writing, so that a mis-bubble or 1 careless mistake won’t have such devastating consequences on the selection index score. I really didn’t like that in some cases, two different raw scores earned the same scaled score, for example - missing 1 or 0 on parts of the test gave a score of 80. That doesn’t seem quite right. But I am not making the rules, and College Board is not the NMSC, so their goals are different. </p>
<p>@greatfallsmom, my DS registered w/NMSC via the online portal today and input our home email address (for parental consent), so the only reason we got an NMSC email is because he provided the address (so far as I know). The email came to our home account immediately after DS entered it, so that had to be the trigger. </p>
<p>It’s still “Stay-Strong-Saturday”…but we will need a theme for Sunday…and Monday…and Tuesday.</p>
<p>DS did an initial sign in, but no email as of yet. Thanks for the heads up though, I’ll make sure he adds mine to any list, 
.</p>
<p>I agree with @Barfly about the need for a higher ceiling. My son got a perfect math SAT score YEARS ago, and could have easily scored much higher than 80, given the opportunity (or rather still gotten an 80 on a harder test). Last year (2 years after his 800) he only got a 76 on the PSAT, due to a very careless error. Had he made a similar error this year, he could possibly have missed PA’s moderately high cut. Perfection in the math is fairly common, and minor errors are hit hard.</p>
<p>@GoAskDad…I’m thinking “Semi-sober Sunday”, “Merlot Monday”, and “Tequila Tuesday”. Appropriate escalation as the frustration level increases. :!! </p>
<p>I’m waiting for Tranquilizer Thursday because I can almost guarantee that D won’t have heard anything by then.</p>
<p>@NJMom97 I am really feeling like our 224s will go down to at least 223, but I can’t believe whole states are in the cone of silence! I think if one of our states confirms at 223 or lower, our kids are both in the clear. </p>
<p>I’m thinking “Tuition-Freeze Tuesday” because for the tuition we pay we shouldn’t be getting stonewalled!,</p>
<p>@PAMom21 and @Barfly, it’s my understanding that next year there will be a <em>new</em> PSAT to go along with the redesigned SAT test, we can only hope that the scoring we be adjusted as well. I have two sons that will be under the <em>new</em> tests.</p>
<p>My D16 is currently working on SAT practice tests from the Blue Book to prepare for the Oct PSAT. The first one she she missed one and omitted one in Math and still got an 800, the second test she answered all but missed one in Math and got a 780. So frustrating! </p>
<p>Do any of you have any advise to offer those that will be taking the test next month? For D16 it’s 6 weeks from today!</p>
<p>Here in Georgia my son was verbally told by Guidance Counselor that he made it but no paperwork as of yet. I will be bugging her on the 10th for offical paperwork if he doesn’t have it by then. Hopefully they will be on top of the entire process. Getting transcripts sent from his school is sometimes more time consuming than it needs to be so I am crossing my fingers. It took me over a month to get a parchment request sent out.</p>
<p>The 800 in math requires a perfect score for both the current versions of PSAT and SAT. One wrong and you are down to something in the 750-770 range, depending on the test/version. I’m not sure where you are getting your scoring from @3scoutsmom. The Blue Book only gives ranges, right? If any are wrong, it will not be an 800. (At least for the math and the writing, that does not hold for CR.)</p>
<p>Good luck with the practice! DS practiced last year by taking the actual SAT in early October. It worked well, because he got his one stupid error out of the way.</p>
<p>I haven’t read too much about the changes since they don’t apply to us, though as a math tutor, I’m a little ticked that I have to learn something new. If the new PSAT is on a 160/1600 scale, I’m not sure my son would have made it.</p>
<p>@PAMom21 I was told by the center where my daughter took her SAT prep course that the scoring on each administration of the SAT is curved. That SAT prep center grades the practice tests using the curve that was applied when each practice test was given as a real SAT test. On one practice SAT my daughter got one wrong in Math but still got an 800. When she took the actual SAT she got one wrong and got a 770. So what score you get depends on how well the group of students do on that particular test. Students tend to do best on the Math section and to get a perfect score of 800 you usually need to answer all questions correctly, but sometimes one wrong answer still results in an 800.</p>
<p>I would not rely too much on the old scaling which may suggest one wrong equals 800. There have been no tests administered in the recent past that I know of where people have scored 800 with one wrong in Math.</p>