@Ynotgo @gettingschooled
I just called the the National Merit office and asked about how the new PSAT scores were going to be evaluated and was told they are still working with the College Board on that but if he had to guess, he said they were just going to take the total score weighting both sections the same. The official word will be printed in the Student’s Guide the SAT that will be available from the student’s GC’s office in late September or early October (yes, I did remind him that the test is in mid October!) I wonder how far in advance they have to go to print on an order that size?
I also verified that the PSAT is on a 1520 scale, please accept my apology for posting information stating it is on the 1600 scale. Since Prepscholar’s blog incorrectly lists that the PSAT is on the 1600 scale their predicted cut off are likely incorrect as well. @chengallen you might want to correct that!