<p>that sux; my counselor will not release the score until we finish our finals (next week)…lol</p>
<p>how sad, i still need to suffer for one week plus have to prepare for finals</p>
<p>I got a 600 (critical reading), 730 math, and 670(writing skills) = 2000. 96 th percentile. Hopefully, I will be commended.</p>
<p>I got my PSAT scores today: 64 CR, 80 Math, 80 Writing --99 Percentile, 224 Selection index… do u guys think it’s high enough for semifinalist standing in Massachusetts this year? i hope so…</p>
<p>hey zxchen06, where are you from in massachusetts?</p>
<p>Boston… I go to Boston Latin School.</p>
<p>My school opened 364 years after the establishment of the Boston Latin School.</p>
<p>1999…that’s very old…half a decade ago…wow!</p>
<p>Woot! Only one more week until I get my scores! Sigh…</p>
<p>Did any one have their scores go down from their sophomore year? I got a 218 last year (216 was NMSF qualifying), but I’m nervous I won’t qualify for NMSF this year, which would be horribly embarrassing and frustrating. I know I got a 73 in math 
which is worse than my 77 last year, and I don’t know how I did in the other two sections. So, juniors who have already received your scores, have any of them been worse than your sophomore year?</p>
<p>Got 70 math 73 writing 71 CR. 214=commended? tied for 2nd in a class of like 45 in a jewish school. Gah, math curve is horrible as usual, and everyones mistakes on it are careless.</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten my scores yet, but yeah, I’m also afraid mine are going to be lower than my scores in sophomore year. -_-. Ah well, I’m just going to have to wait and see…</p>
<p>Anyway, (belatedly) good luck to all the people who have yet to see their scores!</p>
<p>i did better than i did last year. sophomore: 210, junior: 224. Keep your hopes up! The writing curve is sweet! Try not to worry about making careless mistakes in math. CR was hard for me because I was guessing half the time but ur all smart.</p>
<p>I got a 73 in math, a 79 in critical reading, and an 80 in writing. I know a 232 will advance me to semifinalist standing. My question pertains to the requirements for becoming a finalist. I am homeschooled and will have a high school GPA around 3.85. I am taking Algebra 2 this year. Though I haven’t always focused on my studies, I am currently taking English and History for dual credit at the local college and have straight As this semeter. Am I likely to advance to Finalist standing? Also, do they allow you to send extra documents, like reading lists, to give them more insight into your calibre as a student? I think if I could submit a reading list that would really help (Great Expectations, Paradise Lost, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life etc.).</p>
<p>Aw, you cute lil juniors. I’m a nat’l merit semi-finalist, but my sophomore year I bombed the PSAT. So don’t despair! Okay, well I didn’t bomb, but I didn’t qualify for Nat’l Merit. Junior year I qualified pretty easily, so things change. It’s pretty much a crap shoot just like everything else to do with the whole college admissions process.</p>
<p>Okay, wow, now I am feeling really old and wise being able to give you guys this empty advice. Haha thanks for humoring me. I really have no idea what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>Taoigh ~ In general to advance to Finalist the CB is looking for a very solid SAT I score (people on CC have said higher than 1350, but I can’t verify this myself), plus a “good” GPA, plus no record of trouble with the law, plus a high-school transcript (which your parents can prepare). Based on your post, I would expect that you will have no trouble with any of these requirements. The reading list is great, but I doubt you will need it on this one…still, I suppose it can’t hurt.</p>
<p>for some strange reason I got an 80math 80verbal 80writing</p>
<p>that’s nuts</p>
<p>i didn’t do too well.</p>
<p>Criticial Reading: 71, Math 67, Writing 61 (down from a 70 last year, lol)</p>
<p>Announcement at my school today “all juniors who wish to see their psat scores may stop by after school to pick up their tests…on monday”</p>
<p>GAH! That curve is horrible. I am now even more mad at myself for misreading a problem that stated ‘x-axis’ and thinking it was ‘y-axis.’ That, and the equilateral triangle problem in which I found the side and proceeded to fill in the bubbles rather than then figure out the perimeter. I missed a question on the math last year completely and got a 77; I knew how to do all the math this year and got a 73. Go figure. <em>bangs head against wall</em></p>
<p>Critical Reading I did fairly well on, 45 out of 48, although two of the ones I got wrong were most foolish mistakes. I looked at it and thought, “What was I thinking!?” How does ‘contemporary’ come even close to being the antynom of significant? The curve was harsh though and I got a 73 for that.</p>
<p>The writing I could’ve done better on, missed four but should’ve missed less than that I got a 74 there. So I got a 220 in all, could’ve easily been a 227 if I had used those six extra minutes after each math section to check my work more thoroughly. The curve is hideous. Three down from last year. I doubt I’ll make national merit semifinalist status…if the curves are hideous though, does that mean the cutoffs get lower?</p>