<p>The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ;)</p>
<p>Our kids are supposed to get theirs tomorrow. Pins & needles here, when I think about it. Trying not to.</p>
<p>I'm just going to practice patience. I'll save my squeak for something that really needs attention. Nothing we can do about those scores now ...</p>
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The most irritating part of that for me is that it presumably took a man to get action on it. Grrrr.
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Without a doubt. My husband is a very large man who looks like a professional wrestler. I'm less than five feet tall and around one hundred pounds. He absolutely does not understand that people treat us differently and that there are circumstances under which he can get action and I can't. It's actually a point of contention in our marriage because he sees it as me dumping stuff on him and I see it as recognition of the fact that he has an advantage in being a big, scary guy that I don't.</p>
<p>zm, I thoroughly agree with you, even though my H is not a big, scary man. ;) Sometimes, actually occasionally, I insist that he make a call or sign a letter because I swear that the schools take things more seriously if the father is involved. It is really irritating.</p>
<p>I agree with all of you - for some reason, people tend to be more responsive when a man requests something - I've seen it happen over and over again. So frustrating!</p>
<p>Ah, zoosermon, I can empathize. I am short and slight and my H is almost as wide as he is tall (and he is not short). I always "dump" certain things on him, even though he is a pussycat and I am a tiger. It is just that when people see him, he doesn't even have to raise his voice, while I am ignored until I start screaming (and then people tend to run in all directions).</p>
<p>Its not just male/female. I'm 5' 9" female and the school administrators at every school my d has attended are scared of me. I try really hard to be freindly and un-scarely, but my d says that just makes it worse. No one ever bugged in when I worked in NY or took tokyo subway. I really don't understand it. </p>
<p>My d has learned to use this at her prep school. She just points out that they might want to make a decision her way, or she will bring in mom. </p>
<p>But I really do appreciate that some people really are ignored.</p>
<p>The schools have all been sitting on the PSAT scores since Thanksgiving. There is no reason for them to be holding them. Go the the school and get them.</p>
<p>RSI and other summer interships have early January Deadlines. Request for teacher recommendations should be to teachers before the Christmas holidays. Therefore parents really do need those PSAT scores in hand to have time to determine which summer internships will fit and which teacher to request recommendations.</p>
<p>I busted my daughter's loose by putting on my black jeans and hiking boots, marching into her prep school college counseling, and just standing there, in the middle of traffic until they handed them over.</p>
<p>toadstool - LOL.</p>
<p>Woo hoo toadstool! That's the way!
I hope all of you still waiting... and waiting.... and waiting... will get PSAT scores <em>soon</em>.</p>
<p>The man thing is so true, but I am really the one they should not want to mess with. H is a rose-colored glasses guy all the way. But one morning 3 years ago I had him go with me before school to talk to D's #%*@^&# Ap Physics teacher. Problem finally improved a bit after that.</p>
<p>Oh, I am always bad cop to dh's good cop. But I'm just not willing to die on the PSAT score hill.</p>
<p>Now, if toadstool wants to take a shot ... :D</p>
<p>I'm the good cop and DH is the Big Bad Cop here...we're quite a tandem!</p>
<p>2nd bell tomorrow is the big PSAT explanation assembly for my son's letter of the alphabet. :D</p>
<p>sheesh.</p>
<p>What can a perfect PSAT score get you beside being in consideration for NMS? Are there colleges out there that would grant admission or offer scholarship upon seeing a perfect PSAT score from a junior?</p>
<p>The PSAT score has to be backed up by an SAT score to get NMSF anyway, so that's more likely what colleges look at.</p>
<p>Once you make over the cutoff, it doesn't really matter what your PSAT score is.</p>
<p>^^^That's true. All NMSF look the same to the schools. As far as I know, colleges get a list with scores by range not by actual score. Unless your score is in you transcript, nobody sees it except you and your school. Even at the local level there was no particular recognition for the only 240 in one of the largest school districts in the country, even though they have no qualms on recognizing who runs the fastest, or jumps the highest. Apparently, the "smartest" is not something you should discuss in polite conversation. On this, you'll have to toot your own horn (but then, that will be bragging, which is OK for grandparents to do, but not parents.....oh, well). :)</p>
<p>S's school handed out PSAT scores on Tuesday in homeroom. S doesn't have a homeroom class, though, so did not get his. As luck would have it, his dad and I were at school that day for a meeting, and I got there early so I could ask the guidance counselor for his scores. </p>
<p>I don't know what would have happened had I not been at school that day.</p>
<p>Today's the day for Son to get his scores. In fact, he's probably in the info meeting as I type.</p>
<p>Daughter actually got her scores from the school yesterday.</p>
<p>Well D got hers. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. She went down hugely from 212-ish to 196. I was fine with it until I looked carefully at the report and saw how many she left out this year after not leaving any out in previous years. I was confused about it and attempting to be supportive in case she struggled, but then she said "I had a headache and I wasn't in the mood?"</p>