<p>@onlythebest13 The students may just be lurking and not posting. Or, like my daughter, they might have the perspicacity to go out in the sunshine and leave the worrying to Mom and Dad 
It’s just diabolical that NM Corp doesn’t make the information available via portal, the way every other single test score is nowadays.</p>
<p>@pasoccermom: The high SAT score sort of makes the PSATs less important, at least in my naive view. It’s stressful because of course we all want our children to succeed, but this is only one narrow definition. </p>
<p>Regarding whether to post “Commended” on an application, I think I would and would then indicate the percentage if it is higer than the commended cutoff (99% nationally for us). My daughter will likely disagree.</p>
<p>@pasoccermom
I guess that it would also depend on the nature of your other awards because in the Common App, you only have a certain number of slots for awards/honors. </p>
<p>hopefully, we’ll have some states in by the end of today, because as Vernon Dursley knows, there’s no post on Sundays</p>
<p>@onlythebest13 *Dursley lol!</p>
<p>Just keep breathing, everybody! Go sort the recycling. It’s a good way to stay occupied.</p>
<p>@pasoccermom Nice catch! </p>
<p>Ugh. I just realized that I have been thinking about this backward. Because our state’s population of juniors taking the test has gone down, we will have fewer, not more, NMSFs, and thus the score will not be lower, but higher (though last year was unusually high). Right?! </p>
<p>Why would anyone not put NM Commended down on their college apps? Since when did being in the top 3.3-ish% of your peer group in ANYTHING become equivalent to “watering down” a resume? I don’t think there’s an AdCom out there at any school that would look unfavorably at a NM Commended designation, regardless of that student’s SAT score. :-/ </p>
<p>@grammargal Isn’t that assuming that students had roughly the same score as last year though? I heard that our PSAT test was a little harder than it usually is. </p>
<p>True. I have no idea how this is done. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>@Wolverine86 For some students it’s not a matter of watering down the resume, but of choosing the awards/honors that will best reflect their application. For example, some students in Academic Decathlon or Science Olympiad can wrack up many awards, and I would argue that being #2 academic decathlon team in the state is more prestigious than commended status. Of course if you can, you should write both of them, but sometimes, if you’re out of space in the application, you have to choose one or the other. </p>
<p>@onlythebest13…If a student has limited space to list Academic Achievements and has others that they might consider to be more prestigious, then that’s different…and an awesome situation to be in. The question that @golf1688 asked was whether listing NM Commended would “cheapen” an app if the student had achieved a higher SAT score, and I’d again say absolutely not!!</p>
<p>Nothing in Oklahoma mail today.</p>
<p>@Wolverine86 Good point. When golf1688 asked if NM Commended would “cheapen” an application, I thought they were worried about choosing between two academic honors. </p>
<p>I stayed up really late last night so I slept in and then did a 1/2 hour workout on my treadmill and rower. So I figured enough time had passed that maybe there was some news on CC. What’s that saying . . . “misery loves company”? I guess I wouldn’t call this misery (who can complain about having a child who MAY be a NMSF?) but it is comforting to know that other parents are as obsessed about this as I am. Hoping for at least a 1 point drop in Texas!</p>
<p>I’m with you, @lessismoremom. A 1 point drop in Texas puts my daughter in!</p>
<p>No letter today in PA…and the long weekend begins…</p>
<p>I’m with the Texas folks praying for a drop…D got a 219 and I’ve been hoping and praying since April that the level would not go up! I contacted the school counselor this week and they held firm on the mid-September announcement. </p>
<p>Also - this is my first post and I want to thank everyone for their exhaustive research and information. This thread is a sanity saver!</p>
<p>@DiWantsToTravel I thought that school counselors can tell you who made NMSF, but they cannot release the information publicly until September 10th? I talked to the NMSF people and they told me that I could find out the news as soon as my principal/counseling staff received the list of names. </p>