Why is a 99th Percentile PSAT Not Even Commended?

class0f2017
Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:46:20 +0000

I knew chances for NMSF were slim, but I thought I had commended in the bag. With a 1400(206 SI) and a 99th percentile score, I thought commended was pretty much guaranteed. Wasn’t commended top 3% in previous years? Why is it so selective now? Or is it just because my breakdown was math heavy, so I had a lower end SI for my composite score?