<p>Read the title. Is this a reliable way to see if you've done well on the PSAT?</p>
<p>no .</p>
<p>No, I just asked this on the Parents Forum and everybody says no.</p>
<p>From my experience, colleges pretty much send that email to anyone who puts their email address on the test. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've done well.</p>
<p>no. they get a master list of basically every single student in the country and just sends out the email. getting an email from harvard doesnt mean that you are necessarily qualified.</p>
<p>I second laurstar. Even if you are qualified, don't get your hopes up because of that email from Harvard. Remember, Harvard rejects 80% of 2400-scorers on the SAT.</p>
<p>rockermcr, that statistic is just outright wrong...harvard ACCEPTS over 50% of perfect scorers...let's not make up random statistics.</p>
<p>and- how many of other scorers do they reject? How many do other schools reject? How many do some other schools even get? A 20% acceptance rate to Harvard is pretty good. Perfect score or not. It's just a test.</p>
<p>JyankeesSS2, you're right. I misunderstood something I read before. Sorry about that.</p>
<p>College Emails = Good Score on PSAT </p>
<p>eeks that's a scary thought</p>
<p>i think i did well but i don't get any i haven't gotten before</p>
<p>This really depends what colleges you're getting email from...I received a better score from all of my friends, and I received mail from better colleges (some ivies, stanford, etc.) so if you're receiving mail from top schools, it might be an indicator (I'm not positice that they've graded the tests yet, though...so maybe not)</p>
<p>No, it said on the test that colleges will NOT be able to view your scores, so there you go. No. :P</p>
<p>Colleges are unable to view people's scores, but they are able to view the names of students who scored within a specific range. So yes, if you got a good score, colleges will know.</p>
<p>There's no way to know why you got a particular mailing--but colleges can buy mailing lists from the College Board sorted in all sorts of ways, including by PSAT scores ranges. From the college board site:</p>
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Student Search Service . . . provides you with mailing lists containing your best prospects from nearly three million students who have taken College Board entrance and placement exams — PSAT/NMSQT®, SAT®, and AP®.</p>
<p>Define the students you want to reach by choosing from two dozen variables including geographic location, ethnicity, high school GPA, class ranking, SAT score ranges, religion, intended college major, college preferences, and school and community activities, among others. Then control your Search, from ordering to output, online.
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<p>And although this paragraph doesn't mention it, colleges can also buy lists that sort by PSAT score range. So you could be getting mail because a college bought a mailing list of everyone who took the PSAT in your region, or because they bought one of all the flute-playing, Latinos from Nebraska with PSAT scores between 150 and 200.</p>
<p>At this point it's very unlikely it's based on the results of this year's October PSAT. Give it a few more weeks.</p>
<p>Is a mailed package from MIT with a booklet about college life for "1000 amazing young people like you" something worth noting, or should I not get my hopes up.</p>
<p>Me D has been inundated lately with mailings from various schools. Seems that there have been about 30 a week. Maybe it's just that time of year.</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore this year, and I was sick the day my school administered the PSATs. To be honest, I probably wouldn't have done that well anyway, given my adverse reaction to high-pressure situations and my, ahem, lack of natural test-taking ability, but I think the constant sniffling and cold-medicine-induced stupor made an already bad situation absolutely disastrous. I'm pretty sure I bombed the math. It's going to be bad. Like, worse-than-I-did-on-the-old-SATs-in-seventh-grade bad. And that was already pretty, um, bad.</p>
<p>I took three half-hearted practice tests from various sources, not taking the full two hours and ten minutes, or whatever is, and I scored above last year's Semifinalist cutoff for my state on all three. But on the real thing, I doubt I even broke 200.</p>
<p>So I basically completely freaked out when I found my mailbox flooded with letters from colleges, few of them prestigious. Does this mean I really am a failure at life-- or PSAT testing, whatever-- or am I reading too much into this?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure colleges send mail to lure you into thinking you can get in so you pay their application fee. It's all a trick. In fact, they send extra mail to the low scorers because they are the ones who are more likely to be rused into beliving that they can get in. In fact, the HYPS are the ones behind 9-11 and the government has been putting on a conspiracy coordinated with them so they can eventually develop a breed of super humans to win the war in Iraq.</p>