<p>^i know what you mean. I feel the same for math.</p>
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<li>Disappointed. Kinda unfair that there’s more English than math.</li>
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<p>Silverturtle (or others), I have a question. If the PSAT folks change an answer after a successful protest, how does it impact cut-off scores for national merit status? From my perspective, either the cut-off scores would rise or they would need to allow more folks to attain NMSF status.</p>
<p>Which of these do you think would happen (or am I missing something)?</p>
<p>Eh I disagree, Jerrry4445.</p>
<p>Critical Reading and Writing are different enough that I wouldn’t simply classify them collectively as English. One is essentially your vocabulary and literary understanding, while the other is (albeit less importantly) your fluency in proper sentence structure.</p>
<p>Colleges want not only skills in reading and math, but skills in writing, and in my opinion its pretty fair to have these 3… Plus I can’t really think of another math to add in. Haha. I kinda hate to say this, but the critical reading and math invariably serve as checks and balances to keep foreigners who get perfect math scores from getting into all of the top schools. If that were the case, there would be a bunch of literarily ■■■■■■■■ math and engineering majors in the Ivy league</p>
<p>Interesting stat at my high school:</p>
<p>NMSF-Class of 2009: 1 (no 230+ scores)
NMSF- Class of 2010: 4 (no 230+ scores)
NMSF- Class of 2011: 16 (at least) (5 230+ scores)</p>
<p>^Natacion: Wow, that’s impressive. How large is your school?</p>
<p>Mine is 400 and we essentially have about 1 semifinalist/finalist per year… In fact I don’t think we’ve deviated from that in awhile, haha</p>
<p>My school has about 1000 students and we only get 1-3 semi-finalists per year, with, I assume, no 230+ scores.</p>
<p>BTW, has anyone in Colorado received their scores yet? I asked one counselor and she said that they hadn’t received them and I asked another and she said that they had come in, but she couldn’t find them.</p>
<p>Hm… enough for semifinalist (highest virginia’s cutoff has every been is 219, and I don’t think it will change this year), but not as good as I thought lol.</p>
<p>70CR/79M/70CW = 219 Composite</p>
<p>Missed a pretty simple math problem…</p>
<p>My school has about 3,000 students, and we sometimes get one semifinalist. Not every year. Just sometimes.</p>
<p>My school has 2500-3000 people and we get about 40 semifinalists a year. No joke.</p>
<p>I have not yet received my score, but I did receive an invitation in the mail from a student ambassador program called “People to People” </p>
<p>[People</a> To People](<a href=“http://www.peopletopeople.com/Pages/default.aspx]People”>http://www.peopletopeople.com/Pages/default.aspx) </p>
<p>which mentioned that it sent me an invite based on my PSAT score. I was wondering if anyone else received this invite and what their score was… it might indicate my score.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>“Silverturtle (or others), I have a question. If the PSAT folks change an answer after a successful protest, how does it impact cut-off scores for national merit status? From my perspective, either the cut-off scores would rise or they would need to allow more folks to attain NMSF status.”</p>
<p>I am not sure.</p>
<p>my school in MA usually has 17-20 finalists each year, with usually 1 person getting a 240. i don’t know how many 230+, but this year that includes me.</p>
<p>Anyone know if there’s a website that explains how many people got each grade, nationally or on the state level? I got a 240 (in MA), and I’m curious as to how many other people got this grade. </p>
<p>Also, does anyone know how much emphasis is placed on class grades as opposed to the PSAT/SAT/ACT? I only have an A- average in most of my classes, up from B+ in freshman year and B+/A- in sophomore year, and due to the fact that most AP classes are only for seniors at my school, I’m only enrolled in one AP course. I don’t want to be one of the 6.25% of semifinalists who don’t make finalist status. :/</p>
<p>PSAT/NMSQT Data & Reports</p>
<p>[PSAT/NMSQT</a> Data Reports](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/psat]PSAT/NMSQT”>SAT Suite of Assessments – Reports | College Board)</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m looking for actual numbers of students who got specific grades, though, not percentiles.</p>
<p>still waiting for my scores…</p>
<p>Mm.
I just realized that my school has a really high NMSQT Finalist distribution. Weird.</p>
<p>5-8 each year out of classes of 120. (SC magnet school in an inner city area).
The thing is that we only send 1 kid to an ivy each year and maybe 2 at most to Top 20 colleges. o_0.</p>
<p>Can someone do the following:</p>
<p>If you had Form W and have access to the online quickstart program, can you please post the question, answer choices, and correct answer to the math problem that involved the numbers from 1 to 900?</p>
<p>I really need to take a look at the actual problem and answer choices</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I’m mad about my psat score but this article stresses a more important issue:</p>
<p>"HOW MUCH DAMAGE HAS HUMAN FISHING DONE TO THE OCEAN? We thought we could fish forever, because the sea was a limitless protein mine. But dawning now is a realization that we were wrong about that. But how naive were we? And what price will be paid? Ocean life is dying back in unexpected ways: although there are fewer fish and other sea animals, more of them are starving, while waves of ‘sickness’ spread as primitive microbes gain the upper hand. Symptoms include spreading ‘dead zones,’ harmful algae blooms and a diminished presence of sea animal life in general. Is fishing implicated in all of this? This website challenges accepted views of how the ocean works and suggests an new interpretation of today’s trends: failing ocean fertility induced by fishing. (Also challenged is Canada’s decision to ignore seal diseases. Nov 9/06: Brief to MPs)</p>
<p>Starving the “Codmother” - the high price paid for writing this website - Disabled ex-nurse loses benefits over CBC television appearance - December 5, 2009 </p>
<p>Atlantic Canada reveals what is probably the clearest evidence anywhere of the ecosystem-effects of persistent human fishing. The early 1990’s crash of the once great Canadian cod stock is held up as a global cautionary tale against fisheries mismanagement, against greedy human ‘overfishing.’ But less well known is that the story is not that simple, that, at the level of scientific detail, so much has gone severely and unexpectedly wrong in Atlantic Canada…that the most basic assumptions underlying the ‘science of overfishing/sustainable fishing’ must now be questioned.</p>
<p>Zooplankton were unexpectedly and inexplicably lost along with Canadian fish stocks. If, as seems likely, this is part of the ecosystem impact of fishing, then this finding has global significance.</p>
<p>This website chronicles my observations, the evolution of my ideas about what is happening to ocean life, and my attempts to draw attention to politically undesirable information about changes in the natural world."</p>