<p>I don’t think you can see your PSAT scores on collegeboard unless you’ve already logged in once with the code you got on the paper from your HS.</p>
<p>Hi. Anyone know how a 34 ACT [30 on reading :(, 35/36 on others ] in spring of Sophomore year might expect to do on the PSAT? The Table says: 226, but that seems high based on what I am reading here.<br>
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Thanks.</p>
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<p>If your vocabulary and comprehension skills are strong, a 226 wouldn’t be unlikely.</p>
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<p>My son is a 2013 graduate. He received a 34 on the ACT. His psat score was a 221. However he was a junior when he got the 34.<br>
You will probably score higher than he did on the psat since students usually score higher during their junior year. I am thinking that your ACT score will increase during you junior year if you decide to retake.</p>
<p>I would say the 30 on the reading would mean that his PSAT might be expected to be a bit lower than the chart suggests, since reading is worth more (1/3 rather than 1/4) on the PSAT. But as vryproudmom says, the fact that that was sophomore year and he’ll be a junior when he takes the PSAT should work in his favor. Is he willing to do any prep for the PSAT?</p>
<p>Hi guys im new here to CC (first post but i’ve read alot of good stuff here)… i got a 221 in California… previous cutoffs have been 220 for 2013 and 221 for 2012… i wanna know your opinons on my chances of making the cut off this year</p>
<p>You’ll find out in august or September caliboy.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when and how college board will announce it?</p>
<p>There is no official announcement of cutoffs. The notification of finalists goes to the school.</p>
<p>hahaha i know but the wait’s killing me and i was wondering if anyone had any statistical or analytical insight on how the CA cut off might be this year… even if its just a gut feeling hahaha</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1457466-2012-state-summary-reports-up.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1457466-2012-state-summary-reports-up.html</a></p>
<p>You can dig through here and perhaps make a determination.</p>
<p>My sense is is the cutoffs will be higher californiboy. Welcome to the land of the anxious. Can’t say for Cali per se through.</p>
<p>Sucks for me of the cutoffs higher. 220 in ca</p>
<p>Dude I scored *<em>**ing 220. </em></p>
<p>Looking at California data, I think that it is safe to say that the SF cutoffs will be above the previous year’s. In each category, the number of students scoring between 75-80 and 70-74 in each category (except for math 70-74) has increased. Of course, this could possibly mean that people are getting very good at one particular subject, but in all likelihood, the ones getting 77s on one category are getting 70+ on the other subjects. Although I feel that it will definitely be over 220 in CA, you have to remember that everyone on CC is doing educated speculation (or just plain speculation), and that until the cutoffs are out, you have no concrete proof.</p>
<p>On another note, it will be interesting to see how these cutoffs will play out. I know there hasn’t been a cutoff over ~223 in recent history. However, with these general increases in scores, it may very well get above 223 for boarding and int’l schools.</p>
<p>i hear u guys on the Cali scores. i was talking to a mom from there and since we were discussing scholarships at Northeastern, I brought up my kid had a shot due to NM but I also explained to here that yes, my kid did great but they had no chance of making NM status if we lived in California. Our issue is hard too though as we’re in the mid range states and the state scores are higher than they would otherwise be due to some plum schools in one major city. i’m sure u Cali guys are rolling ur eyes at “our” problems but given what mine did with what is available in our part of the state was truly remarkable. There are less options here for courses, prep etc that can be found in the bigger cities.</p>
<p>Looking at the 2012 scores for NJ, I am wondering if the kid needed a 240 to clear the cutoff. There was a big jump in the number of students in the 75-80 range for reading and writing.</p>
<p>or maybe a 240 won’t cut it… yes, i know that’s the top score. but I hear u… I guess a bunch of braniac kids took the test in 2012. I too was going oh no when I saw the kids in our homestate in the top range esp as my kid has a top border cutoff score… We shall see. Has anybody else been getting the BAMA, OU, and Aggie e-mails? We just started getting them again so I was hoping with the tea leaves of course that this was promising. I know the schools don’t have my kid’s exact scores but maybe College board has the cutoffs now or the colleges are doing some tea leaves on their own. Here’s to hoping. 
of course, what is more likely is they are picking up all the kids that “might” make it too</p>
<p>Those schools are among the many flooding us with email. I don’t know if it means anything, but I doubt that it does.</p>
<p>Seriously, I feel like a jerk saying, “my kid scored 230+, do you think that’s good enough?” But when I look at the state report for 2012 I start to think that the cutoff for NJ could be over 230.</p>
<p>i doubt it would be that high ridethewave. i think 223 was the highest cutoff ever anywhere??? with ur kid having a score over 230, they should be fine with semi-finalist stats. Any schools with big scholarships that appeal to them? wish u and the young one the best with it. right now, UCF and USC are the schools my kid is most interested in with the scholarships and I know USC is only half. But with a lower score, we really needed to develop 2 lists, the will apply regardless list and the will apply or at least seriously consider if they make NMS status. the cost difference between NM and non NM for a # of schools made us have to make those decisions.</p>
<p>I think it will be 225 or 227, at the very least. There were 200 more kids in the top range in writing than in previous years, 300-350 more in reading. And about 2000 fewer juniors took the PSAT last year.</p>
<p>ctl, we are looking at some schools that offer merit aid and some that do not. Not all of the merit aid is tied to being NMF. I agree that cost/value are not to be taken lightly, and I am happy that the kid concurs.</p>