<p>Does anyone know how many words the essay has to be?</p>
<p>The form does not say how many words the essay should be, just to “Use your own words and limit your response to the space below. Print your essay and affix securely or write legibly in ink on this form. Material exceeding this space cannot be used.”</p>
<p>The space measures approximately 8.5" x 6"</p>
<p>any word on louisiana?</p>
<p>Does anyone know - when schools receive the info do they give the packets to the semi finalists? Or do they want for the announcement day to tell them? What’s the SOP on this? Anyone?</p>
<p>KansasGirl, I understand that the schools are supposed to give the letters to the semi finalists right away, some don’t either because they are just to busy with school starting etc that they don’t get to it, some schools in the past have also misread the instructions and thought they weren’t supposed to give the letters to the semifinalists untill the public announcement in mid sept. When they do this it give the semifinalists very little time to complete the paperwork to advance to finalist (as most do).</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>What is the date you must get the application in by?</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten mine and I doubt I will for a while - we don’t even have a school calender yet due to the teacher’s union issues. I doubt they will strike but I can’t see me getting mine till at least mid Septmber regardless…</p>
<p>pualalala, the letter says 10/14 but it also says you can request a short extension.</p>
<p>Are you kidding me??? Washington has the highest score average so far? Bloody hell. I would have qualifies EVERYWHERE else! I hate this!</p>
<p>that stinks</p>
<p>but it’s still not enough to make me want to move to alabama!</p>
<p>alabama doesnt have even close to the lowest cut off…try MS</p>
<p>Alabama and Georgia fought a war once over the water in the Chattahoochee River. </p>
<p>The Alabamians threw hand grenades at our valiant Georgia soldiers.</p>
<p>Then the Georgians pulled out the pins and threw them back.</p>
<p>Actually if you look at the listing above, the cutoff for Alabama is 205 and the cutoff for Mississippi is 212. Of course we Georgians are way smarter.</p>
<p>^I am not from either of the two states, but I do have to say that the cutoffs are not set yet. If you look at the list, its <= 212 and <=205, so it might very well be that MS’s cutoff is lower than 205.</p>
<p>That is actually my concern. My score was the cutoff score from my state for the last 2 years. Since very few people actually got the score, I probably will not know if I got NMSF just from just website…Ill have to either get my letter or know exactly my state’s cutoff. The <= won’t be helpful unless someone posts a <= that is my score…as Im either 1 point off NMSF or just made it.</p>
<p>Quite true.</p>
<p>I hope you make it. Good luck!</p>
<p>No. Emmatoo. You’re simply wrong. The cutoff is 208 for Alabama. We had a lot of 208s and 207s at my school. 208s got it. 207 didn’t. Assuming rational behavior on NMSC’s part, what would those statistics suggest? That 205 got it magically but 207 didn’t. Gee that’s interesting.</p>
<p>I have a question. I got a letter earlier saying I was one of the top 50,000 but since then I have moved schools. Is the only way for me to find out my status through my old school. If so, should I call them and ask if they have received anything.</p>
<p>Emmatoo-
Sidebar- the battle over the water in the Chattahoochie river is still being waged with GA, ALA and FL</p>
<p>Based on RPizzle’s post #394, Alabama’s cutoff is 208, so should we change that <= to just = ? </p>
<p>Alabama 208 (posts 328 and 294)
Arizona <=212 (post 315)
Georgia <=214 (366)
Florida<=211 (post 327)
Illinois <=217 (Post 340)
Kansas <=212 (post 317)
Kentucky <= 209 (post 309)
Maryland <=234 (post 308)
Michigan <=209 (post 331)
Mississippi <= 212 (post 357)
Missouri <= 216 (post 294)
Nebraska <= 211 (post 292)
Ohio <=215 (post 311)
South Dakota <=205 (post 320) - received word from GC (packets with letters to be distributed Monday)
Tennessee <= 213 (post 350)
Texas <= 216 (post 319)
Washington <=218 (post 313)</p>
<p>Ghost117, if you would have qualified everywhere else, then you must have scored 117 (since that is the current Illinois <= score). (Ah ha! That would explain the name “Ghost117”). So you still have a great shot of getting semifinalist. So far, only one person has written in to say they qualified with 118 in Washington, so we only know the cutoff is <= 118. Since last year Washington was 117, and the year before I think it was 115, there is an excellent chance it will be 117 or lower, I think. Good luck!</p>
<p>Barfly, it looks like you got your numbers mixed up. 117 would not be a qualifying PSAT score in any state.</p>
<p>Oops. Yep, add 100 to my numbers. Sorry!</p>