National Merit Cutoff Predictions Class of 2017

National merit corporation did tell me personally that SI will be no higher than 209

How is this number converted to SI. What is 80/20 split

Correction 650/800 split

650 Verbal and 800 Maths.
Since Verbal is counted double, this split produces the lowest SI for 1450.

Someone please clarify. My daughter gave the old SAT According to the national merit corporation this will be converted to the new SAT score. This is done by converter on the college board website she converts to math 730 and writing 720 for total of 1450. What will be her SI

I get an SI of 217 for those scores. She should be fine.

How did we get this number

(Writing/10)*2 + (Math/10)

Blargh, still waiting. Even though the GC assured me she’d let me know as soon as she heard anything. Apparently she’s deaf…

We ā€œheardā€ the good news today from school - it was in the principal’s weekly e-newsletter. A friend happened to text me a pic from it, otherwise we (daughter included) would have missed it. I am happy they recognized her in the newsletter, but it strikes me as odd that they haven’t said anything to her in person…

^^That is crazy. It would have been nice if they told the students first.

My son was finally told today by his GC who gave him his letter. Finally, at long last, official confirmation. Thank goodness for smART’s site.

My son is still waiting to hear from his school as well. He met with his GC last friday, but she said she hadn’t heard anything. A little strange. (The Principal is brand new and came from a Middle School. Maybe he is being cautious of the ā€œDon’t not release the info until XX Date.ā€

What to do with someone already in college? Do you think it is worth to proceed with nmf even the college has no money for nmf?

We have not heard anything from the high school. Do you think we’ll be notified after graduation?

Sorry if I’m repeating old news but this year the confirming SAT score will be a Selection Index. Multiple parents have confirmed this news and there is a pretty good discussion on a couple of the smART sites.

I’ve posted information on the following CC thread:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1917728-sat-confirming-score-will-be-a-selection-index.html#latest

Still waiting in TX. Think D’s school subscribes to the we-will-not-release-ANY-information-until-press-release-date philosophy. It is really quite frustrating, as it would be nice to finally receive official notification, and it would be helpful to be able to start the next phase of the qualifying process. Thank you to those of you who have received and shared information, as it is currently the only way some others of us are even aware of anything at this stage. At least the wait will finally be over in a few days!

We are also still waiting in Ohio. It is surprising because our school usually has 2 or 3. Last year there were not any. This year I only know about my son, but have not asked anyone else.

If someone has old sat score is this first supposed to be converted to the new sat for calculating selection index

That is a good question @crazydad. I don’t know if they will convert the ā€œoldā€ SAT to the ā€œnewā€ SAT score and then calculate SI or calculate an SI from the ā€œoldā€ SAT and then come up with a number that will factor in the SIs of old and new.

Seems like calculating an SI from the old SAT should basically just be dividing by 10, since it already double-weighted the reading/writing portion. Oh, and using the multiple choice score for writing instead of the full score that included the essay.

It will be interesting to see what NM decides to do. It would seem calculating an SI should basically just be dividing by 10 but conversion/ non-conversation adds in a component that will result in dramatically different results.

For example, the historical confirming SAT score is 1960. For illustration purposes, I’m going with 1950. The SAT subscores are: 650 Math, 650 Reading and 650 (writing MC subscore). If you simply divide by 10, that is an SI of 195.

Place the ā€œoldā€ SAT scores of 650 math, 650 reading and 650 writing MC into the SAT converter and the converter comes up with 700 reading/ writing and 670 math. To get the SI of this ā€œconvertedā€ score, you get 700*2 + 670 = 2070 and a SI of 207.

I have no idea but it will be interesting.