@icantsleep haha I try to be positive 
@maksbow click on view details and then download report. It is on the second page.
Does anyone know what the last years cutoff was for California
Not sure how accurate but PrepScholar cutoffs here…http://blog.prepscholar.com/national-merit-semifinalist
@alltoomuch yeah I guess it can seem hard to believe, I mean my state is 215 and that’s radically different from Alabama. I wouldn’t even be worrying if I was in that state! But hey that’s a good thing for your daughter I guess
Thanks @BunnyBlue for your thoughts on this. I guess we have time to decide if we want to continue in the competion. From what I’ve read, finalist don’t get announced until February of senior year, so it might make little difference from application perspective. I think we’ll concentrate on acing SAT subject tests, and if time permits, perhaps taking SAT in the fall of senior year.
@gettingschooled not seeing any “download report” option on my phone when I click view details…
@loveispancakes…But isn’t 215 the old range…I am looking at these new lower cutoffs…which I assume is based o the 1520 range.
Please someone tell me if a 1480 will qualify me in Texas
@nillupa No one knows. What was your Selection Index. That is what matters. Regardless, we won’t know cut offs until September. We’ll only be able to guess.
@maksbow then add three numbers out of 38 (reading, writing, and math) and double the sum.
Or double R+W (out of 760) add math (out of 760) and then divide the total by 10.
@maksbow - go to your Score Report Page - there are then Headings at the top - on the Right
Score Report for PSAT/NMSQT, Fall 2015 (There are these headings/tabs):
Report Details Test Questions Skills Insight NMSC Selection Index <-- these are clickable - if you click on NMSC
Selection index you will see that SI score.
Ok so a lot of people have been getting 99th percentile on this thread…are that many people receiving that many good scores or are CC users all geniuses
And does 99th percentile guarantee national merit?
How did you all get your Access Codes?
Generally, if you got an index of 220+, there’s really no way you won’t qualify regardless of what state you reside in. I think subtracting 6 pts from the old cut-offs is a better estimate than those of PrepScholar’s.
I think the consensus is that the PrepScholar cutoffs are way too low. I would not rely on those.
@EarlVanDorn, “The number of NMSF from Mississippi shrinks and swells pretty dramatically, because they find if they reduce the cutoff by a point they will be way under one percent and if they raise it a point they will be way over. There is just no way to know how there will resolve these issues.” This is a concern. Now the number of possible qualifying scores is much smaller and so wherever they draw their lines, there will be larger fluctuations from year to year in how many NMSF they have from each state. I wonder how they will be able to keep the numbers of NMSF they say (not even sure how they did this under the old system).
They’ve gone from 61 possible scores under the old system to 24 possible scores in the new system. Any grouping they make will be far larger. When you have roughly 40-50 questions in each section, this also mean that the new scoring system is cheating many kids out of points they earned.
@mtrosemom No scores here either. College Board says the emails with the score ID are being sent out in waves from now until January 9th. You can get the score ID from the HS guidance counselor if you don’t get the email. Unfortunately for S, the report that CB sent to the school is somehow corrupted and they can’t give the students the IDs.
@songmino, According to faitrest.org, the CA cutoff for last year was 223.
http://www.fairtest.org/sites/default/files/NationalMeritSemifinalist2016-scores.pdf
Don’t forget, that as far as I understand, your percentile score is based on your PSAT score, the 1520 scaled score. This one has the half math, half verbal balance. This is NOT your SI percentile. (At least I don’t think it is, has anyone else figured this all out yet?) Your SI percentile will be based on the 1/3 per subject rankings, and can differ. I realized this might be the case after seeing a higher percentile quoted for one SI score, than a higher SI score from another person.