Just curious for those that are seeing scores - where are you seeing these? On the college board website? My son doesn’t have any account to sign into yet that I’m aware of. We signed up for the psat through a special link that our high school sent us so he hasn’t created an account yet. I’m not sure how I would even sign in to try and see scores. I know with my older daughter they just handed the tests back at school and that was how we got her scores. I don’t remember seeing them online, but that was a few years ago so things may have changed.
You’ll need to create a College Board account if you want to see scores online. They’ll eventually show up in the mail. I can’t imagine waiting that long, though.
@me29034 It was the College Board website.
@me29034 I think S19 got his scores at school last year in late January (maybe juniors get them earlier?) You should be able to get them online in December 11-13 even if your son has to make a new account.
I just missed the window yesterday. I don’t know why I even care considering there is no way S19 got a 222/223 for National Merit in our state and he already took the SAT! I can’t believe the ACT is coming up next weekend already. If he doesn’t upload a photo by Friday, I guess he won’t take it. I keep reminding him but he keeps saying he’ll do it “later” - he swears he’ll finally look at a practice test sometime this coming weekend.
S19’s picture is from 8th grade. :)) I meant to take a new photo of him past week but I forgot again.
You can upload one from 7th year to his horror.
I tried while people were posting about it and I couldn’t see them even though I followed the steps. Oh well. Probably better because I have a feeling she missed it just barely (reading and grammar are the hold backs) and knowing that before her SAT this Saturday probably would undermine her confidence.
@payn4ward Too funny! My son looked about 11 years old in 8th grade so I don’t know if I could get away with that.
S19 also has his 8th grade photo on his SAT ticket. It’s only this year that he’s started looking different but I’m too lazy to enter another photo and he’s only got one more sitting left to take SAT 2s so the eighth grade photo it is!
Two of S19’s friends got their PSAT scores and they both got a 1500 and now S19 is stressed. I absolutely hate that these boys discuss scores and grades. I don’t even care if he’s NMF but he does. We won’t be using the big scholarships that it could bring so it would just be an “honor” on his app.
Last night, S19 went off the deep end because his best friend’s APUSH teacher curves all tests and his does not. All classes take the same tests. The other teacher also gives extra credit and his does not. His friends in that other class are sailing through with high As while S19 and his classmates are spending tons of time on the class and eeking out their As. Same goes for AP Lang. One teacher gives no writing assignments at all. S19 has these analysis assignments every other week that take him 4-5 hours. He’s asked around and that’s how much time other kids in his class are spending as well. I keep telling him that he’s getting more out of his classes but that’s starting to not be enough advice as he’s getting tired of all of the homework. The talk of it not being “fair” is getting old though. He has to just move on and do the work.
Thanksgiving break was good but I think Christmas break will be so much better since semester finals will be over and he’ll have a real break from the work!
He won’t be hating his APUSH teacher as much when his class gets 5s and the other class gets 4s. But yeah, it’s hard to get kids that age to think long term. Our semester ends in January so there will probably be some work over the break, but there are NO REHEARSALS OR PLAYS FOR THREE WHOLE WEEKS and I have no idea what the kid will do for all that glorious time.
I guess D19 hangs out with a lot of smart kids, because I asked her if anyone else at school got their PSATs. She said “everyone” did better than her. I tried to correct her, saying her score is plenty high, and she said that she only asked people who she thought did well. If she knows someone isn’t a good student, she didn’t ask them.
Her school had over 20 national merit semifinalists last year, one of the highest in the Houston area, so I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising that a lot of people did better than D19. And it’s not bumming her out because she did a lot better than she thought she would. Now she’s just going to be doing a practice ACT section every day until her test in 11 days to hopefully prepare her.
@gusmahler, your D19 goes to Lake Wobegon High School? 
Lol, I guess hanging out with people smarter than her is having a good effect. When we were doing college tours, she told some of the student guides that she was retaking her 98th percentile ACT to try to get 99th percentile, they seemed shocked and just said, “you’ll do well here.”
@gusmahler where in Houston? We are in The Woodlands.
Hi everyone, hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. I had a short list of things for the kids to do over break, not one thing got done. :(( D19 was supposed to finally look at her ACT book and do a practice test, make a Raise me profile and make a Christmas list. I forgot to remind her about Raise Me, she never looked at the book but she did do a lot of online shopping for clothes for Christmas so I guess that was halfway done! She also had some homework that I encouraged her to do early but of course found her Sunday night finishing it up. D21 was supposed to do her online driver permit tests but that did not get done either (although she does;t need it done until early January, we just thought she would take advantage of a week off and get it out of the way.) Then again I did not do the things on my list either - researching summer ideas for D19 and building her new bed. At least I had a good excuse, I was cooking and cleaning for 4 days,
I did not see PSAT scores but I am not concerned, we will not be in the running for NMF so they don’t mean much. I did get D to finally take a picture for the ACT last night, now I have to work on getting her to do some practice for the test.
son19 is taking the SAT this weekend and the ACT the following weekend. They will be good barometers. I would’ve liked to have seen the PSAT scores out of curiosity.
I’ve become less worried and stressed out about his college search. He has a couple of schools on his list that he likes and he should get into, and they meet most of his needs/wants. Unless his test scores are atrocious I’d say he should be set for admission to those. If he somehow gets a super high test score on either the SAT?ACT then maybe he stands a chance at a reach or two. He’d still have to get recruited for a sport to get into one of his reach schools I think, so really there is not much pressure. He either gets it or he doesn’t.
Son19 had a nice break over Thanksgiving, but he’s right back into crazy mode this week with track starting up. NHS portfolios to do, Robotics is kicking in, and school work is getting more intense again. 3 1/2 weeks of craziness and then he’s off for xmas break.
Hi all! I have taken a long break from CC, mainly because I think we have a college decision! Okay, maybe not a final decision, but I’m done with the visits and the agonizing…my daughter fell in love with our two in-state options in Indiana. The biggest shock of all is that my beloved alma mater is her #1 choice! I’m done worrying about all of this for now. She has four solid choices, is an admission match for two, a safety for one and a reach for the fourth. The other two are our Maryland state schools. I’m confident that she will get in and I’m confident that I will be able to pay for it (barring any craziness with my employment). In addition to the four top choices, she’ll apply to another four that are of interest and could turn out to be affordable.
I’m over the AP’s (she may graduate with one if she’s lucky; our school is just not set up for that based on her areas of strength and one C from freshman year), so now we focus on maintaining grades, getting the SAT or ACT scores where we want it to get scholarships and maintaining and enjoying extra-curricular activities. I am also very committed to maintaining her mental and physical health, which requires plenty of sleep and exercise, along with a little balance. Maybe I’ll be back to freaking out after seeing her PSAT scores, but I don’t plan on it. Right now, I’m just happy to have a good, not perfect, student with great choices for her personality, major and my bank account. If you saw my crazy spreadsheet and the notes I’ve been keeping since she was 11 years old, you would appreciate how groundbreaking my new mindset is!
That’s great @DeltaMom2019!
I think we are most likely set as well. My d has a great, solid choice that is a financial and admission almost a guarantee. She has some other possibles that are either financial or admission reaches, but since she is happy with her likely, it doesn’t feel very high pressure. It’s nice!
Lol. S19 does look about 11 years old in the SAT ticket photo, while he now looks 20 years old.
While checking into a hotel with him (college visit), the hotel clerk asked S19 to fill in his name as well mentioning that they require all the adults (above 18) to fill their info card.
Us: Umm.
Clerk: How old are you?
Son: 15.
:))
Then we went to a restaurant for dinner and it was very crowded.
Me: Why don’t we sit at the bar and eat? ( Not realizing S19 is very very minor )
Waiter: No, you can’t sit there. Three more years.
Son: Yeah, right, three years till my drinking age.
:))
that’s great @DeltaMom2019 and @mom2twogirls that you think you are mostly done looking! That must be a relief.
I think we might be done until next Fall if he gets invited for some OV’s for sports. We’ll have to wait and see how he does on the SAT/ACT until we look any further. The only thing we have to be concerned with is that son19 has a friend group that will be considering top colleges and prestige, and son19 likes to keep up with the Jone’s a bit. His friends are more skewed towards liberal arts and business students vs his engineering interests, so their college lists are different from son19’s.
My d had some friends who are going to want a bit more prestige but she tends to be more practical. It’s why she didn’t want to tour with friends. She already had been practicing her response to them asking her SAT score and good thing, because she did have to use it (“I got a good score, I might see if I can get it a little higher, but I’m not going to share it because I don’t want to feel bad if someone gets higher and I don’t want anyone to feel bad if they get lower.”)