<p>Yes @celesteroberts this law is so vaguely worded and leaves out so many specifics especially for the UCF program and how that will be handled. I called our local Senator who is also president of the senate and is on the education committee and received some information. Yes, it can be used at a private university or school that is accredited according to the specification noted but it will only pay the highest COA of a Florida state school toward that private school and I believe that the most expensive school right now is UF at 20,255 estimated COA for 2013-2014. We are really in a quandary as we also will be getting Bright futures and my D had the Florida Pre-paid. When I called financial aid for the state of Florida, they told me the school would use Florida pre-paid,Bright futures and NM first, and then the full COA would be credited to her account. This could be interesting.</p>
<p>@numbersfun (from your June 9 post), Nope! The principal never did call in the top scorers as promised. I’m disappointed that my boy won’t be able to practice his memorization skills. I had asked him to try to remember who was at that meeting, just to satisfy my snoopiness! (He looked at me like I had a Milk Dud stuck on my nose when I suggested that, so I don’t think he would have done it anyway).</p>
<p>@barfly, So sorry your kid didn’t get to work on those memorization skills. Good thing no one is asking me to do that anymore as my memory has been on vacation ever since I had children!<br>
I know you can get around the geographic restrictions fairly easily, but the part about asking someone else to log in went over like a lead weight in my home. Neither of my still at home kids would have wanted anyone else to see their grades even a second before they saw them. They even nixed their older brother who is living in CA right now.
Hoped that one of the more tech savvy people on this post would tell me if the ‘surge’ of students would actually overwhelm college board’s servers.</p>
<p>We had my brother look last year, but he moved so this year S15’s friend from Utah will look for us. :)</p>
<p>Can someone explain the comment about getting around the geographic restriction for accessing AP scores by using a proxy server? I don’t know what that means. Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Google ‘proxy server.’ There a whole bunch of sites that deal in them. Find one that’ll give you one free or a trial for a few days and then follow directions to put in your computer. It isn’t hard. I know because I did this and I’m not techie. It ‘masks’ the computer so other computers think it is in a different location. Get a proxyI(it’s a long list of digits and letters) for the geographical area you want. They list them for many different areas. That’s how I watch Sherlock on BBC before it is available here in USA.</p>
<p>Thanks! That sounds easy enough.</p>
<p>D2 got her first “prospective NMF” college contact yesterday with an e-mail from Univ of Houston Honors program describing their full ride scholarship for NM kids. A little too far away for her to seriously consider attending, but it’s interesting to see that wording starting to show up in some of the mailings/e-mailings. 
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<p>Wolverine86, D also got the U of Houston Honors College email. I wish D was interested in the schools that gave full rides to NMFs, but she is not :(( </p>
<p>mtrosemom…Yes, we’re lucky that D2 is interested in several of the schools that offer great NM packages. We visited several over spring break hoping to nail down some safety schools as a minimum, but it looks like she may have found “the one” among them. Better than we could’ve hoped for!! <:-P </p>
<p>For a 206 in Alabama, the best I could hope for really is Commended, right? 
I’m so disappointed as my score went down from sophomore year to junior year.</p>
<p>@irlandaise - see page one of this thread for historical info on state cutoffs. You are most likely correct in your assumption as the lowest cutoff score for Alabama was 208.</p>
<p>217 in Ohio - above the highest cutoff (215), hoping and praying it’s enough. 2340 on my SAT bodes well if I managed to become a semifinalist.</p>
<p>so, i’m thinking everyone has been diverted to AP scores. Hope your DD & DS have done well. Please come back in Aug/Sept. and let us know what you start hearing about PSAT/NMSQT cutoff scores. Happy Summer! </p>
<p>When do we find out the cutoff per state? August or September?</p>
<p>@eburke73,
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<p>My prediction for Ohio is 214 +/-1 (see post #552 & 553).</p>
<p>For the 2014 grads, the letters were mailed to homeschoolers and principals on 8/27 and the very first report posted here was 8/31 from a homeschooler. It takes awhile to collect enough reports to get everything nailed down, though some years we get lucky and fairtest gets hold of a copy of list and publishes it, or someone else has access to the entire list and posts here. Also the date of mailing can vary. I understand from posts here that the previous year it was 8/21. </p>
<p>Many principals will not release info until the NMSC official news date in mid-September and will pretend not to have received the letter, but others are happy to share with parents/students.</p>
<p>S and I met with a college counselor yesterday to get him enrolled for his math class this fall (dual enrollment). She asked him if he had taken the PSAT and then asked him if he had made the cutoff. We told her we were hoping so (209 in Michigan - totally on the bubble). She said that she was a school teacher during the regular school year and that one of her students already knew she had made it. I tried to tell her it was too early to know but she was insistent… though she did not know what the students score was or what the cut off was. I am thinking she didn’t know what she was talking about and was thinking of commended or maybe a student thought that commended was SF… but it got me wondering if schools already do know???</p>
<p>I think students who score well over their state’s highest recorded cutoff are in the habit of saying they ‘made it’ long before any official news comes out. At least they do so at S’s school. No schools have received any lists of names or cutoff scores yet. Or if they have, that is a really well-guarded secret. I have never heard of anything like that. Anyone else?</p>
<p>I agree with celesteroberts. If a kid scored well above the state cutoff and knows that the school will do their part for qualifying, then there probably not a question for qualifying. My D is in that situation, although she doesn’t go around saying she will be a NMF. However, it does affect how we are looking at the college application process.</p>