<p>“In our rural VT HS they don’t particularly encourage kids to take it, and never tell that big scholarships are riding on the results, and prep classes don’t exist.”</p>
<p>I have to concur with this statement for Maine as well. If I had any idea that large scholarships were available due to PSAT scores I would have encouraged my kids to study for them. I only thought of them as a preperatory test for the all important SATs… The PSAT pamphlet they come home with only mentions $2,500 scholarships.</p>
<p>I think the population of different states may impact the percentage of higher scores?</p>