<p>Hmm...that's odd. At our school we get our booklet back - if you want to look at the problems I suggest asking if the school has it, or if you could obtain a blank copy somehow.</p>
<p>Still no scores for S. I am beginning to think that his counselor is a mythical creature ... we know he has one, but she has never actually met with him. Guess she's too busy being head counselor (code for too busy to do her job).</p>
<p>I imagine we'll find out online before she bothers to return scores.</p>
<p>kelsmom--at our (public) HS, students have to meet with the counselor every year before registering for classes. I find it odd that your D has never met with hers!</p>
<p>And as another poster pointed out, this time of year the counselors are really busy with seniors & their applications & reccomendations, transcripts, etc. etc. After winter break they'll have more time for the juniors.</p>
<p>At D's hs, the kids have to meet with their counselors at least once a year before registering for classes - just like at mommusic's local hs. </p>
<p>Good luck, kelsmom - you'll be getting those scores one way or another any day now.</p>
<p>Yesterday, D checked her e-mail and found a note from the front office school secretary (not her GC, or even a secretary from the guidance office fore Pete's sake) saying that today (lot of notice!) she was going to forward D's new PSAT scores to the organization handling a summer program D had recently applied to. Said D could come in to see them first if she wanted. Thank God she checked her e-mail last night, or those scores could have gone off today and they might have been worse than last year's. </p>
<p>You know, this is really ticking me off. D got e-mails this week and last from schools and programs saying "Based on your PSAT scores, blah blah blah". So colleges have them, the school secretary has them, everyone has them but her!</p>
<p>Update: D texted me her scores. I'm so disappointed! It dropped by 6 points. With soph. year scores she would have been one point away from NMF in her state. Did this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>TheGFG, yes, it happened to one of my D1s upper classman a few years ago (he is a Soph. in collage now). The young man got 227 as a Soph in HS, but dropped to 212 in his junior year. Our state cut off was 215 for NMS in that year.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>D2 just got her scores back - a substantial improvement from 10th grade, when she didn't even finish the sections. But mysteriously, her booklet was not returned. SHould I be concerned ??<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>The books were not sent back to the testing agency, just the score sheet. So the booklet should still be somewhere on campus, unless it was inadvertently pitched. You don't have to get your own book back. Ask the person who handed out the scores if they could get you a book. We had extras left over after the testing. If they have no extras, have your D ask friends if she can make copy of their booklet.</p>
<p>The 2008 scores are now up on the college board site, but you need an access code from the paper scoresheet! I thought access would be automatic for those who took the test last year and set up an online account. </p>
<p>D will be commended but not semi - her scores actually dropped a bit from sophomore year. I guess it's time to drop those visions of a free college education...</p>
<p>Just another money-making ploy. They'll give them to you over the phone for $12.</p>
<p>I'd like to scream right now. HS has them. Will not give out access numbers until 12/22. Does this mean CB's promise of scores on 12/15 if you give us your email was a sham?!?!?!</p>
<p>See my subsequent post below: Yes, it was a sham.</p>
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<p>My older daughter did that with an even bigger drop, but then did much better on the SAT given a couple of weeks later. Sometimes it's the curve at the higher end. Try not to convey your disappointment to your daughter. My daughter was really hoping to be a semi-finalist, at the time it was a big let down, but it's well in the past a year later.</p>
<p>Just called CB. They will not give the scores to you -- even for money -- without the *$#@ access code from the student's score sheet.</p>
<p>GFG: Six points is two questions out of the entire test. It's just not as forgiving as the SAT in that regard.</p>
<p>I didn't realize you had to have the access code, even if you pay for them. I just heard the $12 price tag and the request to "have your credit card number ready."</p>
<p>I sent an e-mail to son's counselor asking for the number.</p>
<p>If you contact your counseling office and explain that college board posted the score reports, and that you only need the access code, it's kind of hard for them to say no.</p>
<p>That really seems unfair! I haven't checked CB yet - and I haven't received an email telling me the scores are posted either!</p>
<p>We called the guidance office for that very reason and they don't know where the score reports are so we can't have the access code.</p>
<p>FauxNom, I hope you are correct. I haven't heard back though.</p>
<p>I talked to the principal today about it -- not asking for S's scores but just the ridiculous policy that we have to have a presentation about the scores when all of these kids took the PSAT in freshmen and sophomore years and know how to read these scores. It's just silly to hold onto them for more than a month, especially because the "big presentation" is just the PowerPoint on the cb website. I can read that myself, thanks.</p>
<p>Youdon'tsay - I agree with you that if that's the reason they're holding onto the reports, it's very silly. Our school does no presentation on the PSAT scores, and most people figure things out just fine. I guess if you live in an area where the majority of the parents aren't familiar with the standardized tests, it could be helpful to hold such a meeting, but it could surely be held after the scores are distributed, even if it's a month later.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you still waiting.</p>
<p>I'd love to have D's scores, but frankly we're not going to do anything about colleges before January anyway, with all the holiday craziness. So I can just wait till the GC gives them to her in January. Let's have a few weeks of sanity before D starts feeling all the collegecollegecollege pressure again.</p>