It’s in the report if you log in. If you know her section scores you can calculate it.
(English x 2 + Math)/10
So 720 730 becomes
1440 + 730 = 2170 /10 = 217
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Cross posted!
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It really favors the English kids.
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It sure does. My D25 scored perfect on math. I think her total score was a 1470 or 1480 but still “only” got a 220 index score. Luckily that was enough. Now I have to hope her school does what they’re supposed to do! It’s been a couple of years since we’ve had a NMSF at our school.
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Fantastic! That’s really great. Find out the exact time and when she lists it on the CA add (first student since x)
We are in the highest cut off and even a 224 had us sweating this year.
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Same exact score and breakdown for my kid. Thankfully we’re in TN where the cutoff was 217. Hoping he gets official notice from the school soon so we can get his applications submitted. Congrats to your daughter!
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@dfbdfb Thanks for that detailed response. I am not sure if S25 even took the PSAT. He’s a man of few words 
I know he’s done with his SAT ( 2 attempts and he’s done).
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True—though, as a humanities department professor, I will say that so many resources get poured into STEM opportunities these days that it’s nice for the humanities and fine arts to get a few crumbs here and there.
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I have another Common App question. If he took Spanish 1 and Algebra 1 in middle school and his high school accepted those as prerequisites for the next respective classes, but did not give him credit towards graduation for them, do you list them? Or leave them out with the assumption that colleges will understand he took those to get into the next ones?
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If they’re not on the HS transcript, don’t list them. If they are (which isn’t your case), then you do.
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Both of my kids have left them out, I think the implication is clear.
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Congrats to him! I believe official notice should be on the 11th so if you don’t here then ask.
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Ugh. My kid just got excited about the Occidental 3+2 program w/ Caltech. I really don’t see this happening for him. (for starters, can’t imagine trying to transfer from Oxy to Caltech as a junior. My kid’s smart but Caltech is INTENSE. Husband and sister went there. Both brilliant. Only one made it out w/ a degree.)
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S25 got his first acceptance today! The University of Alabama. I don’t think it’s his first choice, but he likes it well enough that it’s probably top three, so we’re all excited for him, and now the pressure is off!
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Yes though I think it made more sense on the old format. IMO, now that they’ve taken reading comprehension out 50/50 sounds more reasonable.
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“At competitive test-optional colleges this cycle, most students still submitted SAT/ACT scores”
S25 is in the running for the Posse Scholarship, so we’ve been checking out the partner schools for our city. For example, two of the schools he is interested in are Middlebury and Lafayette. According to the Common Data Set for this most recent cycle, Middlebury, 13% acceptance rate, #11 in USNWR SLAC rankings, had 28% of incoming students in the last cycle submitting SATs and 14% submitting ACTs – so, 42% total (at most – the reality may be less because some kids may have submitted both SATs and ACTs). Lafayette, #30 in the same list, acceptance rate 34% (so IDK if you would consider it selective), 31% SATs, 14% ACTs in the last cycle – so the total is again less than half.
Pomona, where his friend is applying, is #4 on that same list, 7% acceptance rate, 45% of first-year students reported scores.
I thought maybe this was just SLACs so I looked at Columbia (random Ivy pick, closest to us geographically), and there, even though in the CDS the test scores are indicated as “very important” (though they are also listed as not required but considered), only 20% submitted SATs and only 7% submitted ACTs. I am obviously not going to go through every university’s CDS, but I would take that particular assertion with a grain of salt.
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Well, S25 got his August SAT scores, and both sections dropped 20 point from his spring test. (It’s still a REALLY good score, but he had hoped to boost his math since he’s applying for engineering schools, and the verbal/written score in April was higher than the math.)
And it looks like he missed the National Merit Scholarship cutoff as well.
Nothing earthshattering, he’ll be just fine and we’ll keep on keeping on with the applications and a pretty intense senior year. Still, not the good news you like to get, either.
Hoping other folks got better results on the SAT that they can be glad they got.
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My daughter increased her SAT by about 30 pts, which put her right at 1410. That 1400 was a hump she really wanted to get over, so we’re pretty happy. The tiny voice in the back of my mind is like, “I wonder what she could’ve gotten had she actually studied…
”, but I know enough to keep my trap shut. She seems to do much better at testing when she has a relaxed attitude, so probably best than she didn’t go into it totally wound up this time.
Can someone please share prevailing wisdom on score submittal? Within the 25th-75th percentile, submit? What if we’re barely over the 25th? What if we’re over the 75th for admission but below the 25th for honors college (looking at you, U of SC). I’ve seen many threads on this, including @EastCoastProf 's last night. I am curious about the current thinking of this group. Thoughts?
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@Tony_PrincetonReview addressed the question of submitting or not in his bootcamp session: CC Bootcamp: The Importance of Standardized Tests - Live Session w/ The Princeton Review on Aug 21 at 7pm ET - #10 by Tony_PrincetonReview
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Pardon my ignorance, but I thought you only list the courses you take in your senior year. They gather everything else from the transcript. That was my understanding.