@Mamelot @CA1543 Thank you! It’s been a great feeling that I’m doing at least something right and all of the hard work has paid off. I never even thought I would be able to qualify.
@Mamelot Yes, thank you for clearing that up. Edit: You are right, NM included it in the Official Guide that under rare circumstances where you miss the PSAT you are allowed to send in an SAT score. You still have to meet the cutoff and are evaluated the same, it’s just a means of Alternate Entry following an emergency or some other crisis. So yes, totally allowed, just not widely known by many, but it is there in the Guide. 
May be they should get rid of PSAT and use one SAT or ACT score from junior year to determine NMSFs.
All this conversation about a 228 PSAT-equivalent brings up an important question which may have been hashed out before but perhaps it’ll be fun to do so again - and the newbies joining this thread might have additional information - hopefully! [-O<
So here it is: how many other 228’s do we know of?
Addendum: What’s the highest score we do know of and how many?
@Mamelot I know of a girl on the kids thread who said she got a 228. We’d corresponded about another topic. Just checked and she hasn’t logged on in a couple weeks. She is in NorCal.
I think I saw about 4 postings on CC about students who either got or knew someone who got a 228 when the scores were released.
Don’t know how stable things are over the many years, but for the class of 1983, there were about 10 perfect 240 scores in California. My school let me look over the book they received.
in our school I believe highest is 1 226.
Adieu until tomorrow - surely we are now at 90%+ probability for some results on Saturday. [-O<
My son here in Massachusetts got a 228, will be interesting to see how many get one this year. He took the PSAT in his sophomore year too and nearly got a perfect score (237/240), so his status doesn’t help an awful lot about relative difficulty.
congrats to your son @m139pl – truly impressive!!
214 in florida, am praying somehow the cutoff manages to get in my favor despite being 99% sure my score is too low.
The alternate entry rules have been around for quite some time. My husband (boyfriend then) was in the hospital with a football injury and missed the test. They let him take the SAT instead, but he had to drive 2 hours to a location that offered it. That was over 30 years ago.
Thanks CA1543, and appreciate all your input to this thread which has been interesting.
I was wondering how many got perfact scores on the past tests, had seen 100 each year mentioned but I find that hard to believe (too low I think, based on number of perfect one sitting SAT scores there are)
Wait a minute . . . @Ynotgo #5744 you had access to a book with everyone’s PSAT score?
@PAMom21 is this the same kind of book you saw a few years ago?
Holy Cow if so - any principal of any school can easily figure out cut-offs.
Our school had 50+ commended and one 228.
@Mamelot Yes, but in 1982… It had name, score, school, and city. I think it was national, but it may have just been California. I only remember looking at California, and only down as far as my score.
The book I have (class of 2015) lists every semifinalist in the country, by state, town, and school, but no actual scores.
OK they must have eliminated the score column sometime after 1982. I was wondering if The Book was the source for any accurate “predictions”. Sounds like the answer is “no”.
You’d have to know a lot of people to determine cut scores with the book I have. That guy who posted last year must have had insider information. My school only gave me our book, because my son was the only one. I could have had quite the fan club if they’d given it to me day one, but it was like 3 weeks after the fact. Still, it’s a nice little memento for class of 2015.
That guy had cut-offs by state (100% spot on), and full names of the semi-finalists. It was eerie. But . . . sure reduced the wait-time!!!
Someone reported on Art’s blog that a 215 made it in Kentucky.