Hello from OH! Just getting started on this site, although S18 and I have been thinking about the college admissions process for a while now. Can’t wait for these PSAT scores to come out! I was contemplating calling the GC to see if she would let me in on the score before Monday, but I must not be the only one at S18’s school with that thought. School sent an email today reminding parents that scores will be available online on 12/12, but otherwise you have to wait until JANUARY to get the hard copy score report from the school.
Hi! Welcome to the club @wustl93.
FYI, I’m almost positive that some schools must be set for automatic upload. D18 attends a school where they are refusing to share the scores, claiming they don’t have them yet, and sent an email saying access will be Monday. I’m pretty sure they don’t realize the scores are on Naviance (which is precisely how I accessed them). Hopefully other parents on this forum may have access too. Good luck!
@go2mom , Thank you so much for your insight about the pressure cooker/high stress consideration. We are visiting Johns Hopkins today and UPenn is D18’s reach. She definitely has the aptitude but I’m unconvinced that her personality is best suited for the competitive atmosphere. My youngest daughter could handle it fine. Important to remember these things so thanks for the reminder.
emailing your school can pay off. D class of 2018 got a 223 selection index and were pretty proud.She only posted 201 last year and we were expecting close to cut line for NMSF. Our state cut last year was 217, so we all have smiles today. As my daughter put it MWAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Watching some of the 2017 kids on here get their ED acceptances/rejections/deferrals is making me nervous for a year from now!
Same @odannyboySF. It feels like I just went through this with my D15.
@sekere62, congratulations to your D!
Checked Naviance - nothing. So I guess we wait until next week. Oh well.
Welcome to the new comers.
Wow, there are some crazy high PSAT scores being reported!
Anyone else with a S/D taking the ACT tomorrow? S has been doing well on practice exams so I am cautiously optimistic. I have read that the ACT, particularly the Math and Science, has gotten much harder though so I don’t know if his practice scores are reliable.
DD came home with her score papers, SI 222. our state jumped up by five points last year, hoping it won’t happen again this year.
Yep, the 2017 thread is on fire and probably set to explode by the end of next week!
S’s PSAT score is not on Naviance, but I guess I can hold out until Monday. Congrats to all the high scorers!
Is the SI on the paper, or do we just calculate it?
I’m sorry, but I’ve read a few threads on this, and I feel like the info is conflicting on how to calculate the SI. I have a poor RW but very good M student, so it is frustrating for us that he is essentially penalized.
And my next after him is female, but SHE is very good in math too so she will also be penalized!
@rhandco do you know the individual section scores? if so just add them together and double it
for example Reading 38 Writing 36 Math 36.5 = 110.5 x 2 = 221
if you only know the EBRW score and Math score you can estimate (math may be off by a point) by dropping the zero from the EBRW and dividing the math by 5 and adding them together
for example EBRW 740 Math 730 74+146 =220 The estimated way is a point lower because the math was a fraction
When the scores go live on the College Board they should list the SI for you.
Waiting patiently (or not so patiently) to be spoon fed D18’s PSAT score. Seriously, why does the school need to have them a week before the kids? It’s not like that do anything special with the score like call the kid in to review it…it is just plain silly.
I’m right there with you @labegg. Our school does nothing by knowing the scores early also.
“if you only know the EBRW score and Math score you can estimate (math may be off by a point) by dropping the zero from the EBRW and dividing the math by 5 and adding them together
for example EBRW 740 Math 730 74+146 =220 The estimated way is a point lower because the math was a fraction”
The SI is the same whether you have the section scores or just the EBRW and Math. Your example is a point lower because you switched the double to math. EBRW 740 Math 730 = 2*74 + 73 = 221.
Does anyone think the College Board could do something dramatic and raise SI thresholds drastically? The reason I’m wondering is bc of all talk about new SAT scores being inflated.
One college admissions counselor at a respectable school told me that many schools are deducting 100 points from SAT score to make the new scores concordant with old ones. I hope we don’t see bombshell cutoffs in this PSAT rebound year.
Thoughts?
Correction: Do you think the National Merit committee could do something dramatic. I believe they are who sets the cutoffs, not the College Board.
National Merit will do what it needs to do to get the numbers they need. The want a set number of NMF from each state based on the number of students graduating in the previous year. They will adjust the cut off score to target that number and then uses grades to ‘fine tune’ that number, some years in some states a single C grade will rule you out in one state and not others.
So the question is, did significantly more people score higher in your state than last year and did your state have a population shift. States with large populations don’t tend to shift cut off as much as smaller states.
The top states are already at 222 of 228 so there’s not as much wiggle room in the cut off as there was when the highest score was 240.
Second @3scoutsmom above, and also want to add that with this being the second year of the new test I’d suspect there’s not going to be a big shock. From posts I’ve seen on CC and from what my S passed on to me from him and his friends, the test wasn’t significantly different in difficulty level from last year overall. Also regarding SAT, most of our class of 2018 kids will have only the new SAT to submit to colleges, since most students don’t take their first SAT until junior year. So colleges won’t have to add or subtract anything from the vast majority of SAT scores they receive because they’ll all be on a level playing field. The transition year was tough but by the time our C18s are applying to schools the new system should be established.