<p>Your test scores from your PSAT/NMSQT® exam indicate that you have a likelihood for success (achieving a 3 or higher on an AP Exam) in one or more Advanced Placement® courses. We would like to understand how you choose what High School courses you have enrolled in.</p>
<p>Your honest feedback can help us improve the AP Program for you and other students like you. Please take 5 minutes to fill out this survey. This survey is anonymous, and your feedback is very important to us."</p>
<p>What does this mean? How good are my scores? And the results come in December... so how does College Board already know my results?</p>
<p>what?! I didn’t get that email <em>enter panic mood</em>. </p>
<p>But anyway if this email is real all it means is that you scored over a certain school (prob little over than average) and were randomly selected to take such survey</p>
<p>Collegeboard probably sends that email to every student who indicated their email address and scored higher than a marked cutoff score, maybe 180 or 200. I don’t remember if I got that so I can’t tell you.</p>
<p>It’s from <a href="mailto:appotential@collegeboard.com">appotential@collegeboard.com</a> so I can’t say it’s spam. Also, in the survey, they didn’t ask for any contact info,name,etc.</p>
<p>It is very likely that you fit a demographic that they feel is underrepresented in the set of students who take AP exams. Some criteria they may have considered:</p>
<p>(1): A score in a certain range.
(2): A specific ethnic identity.
(3): A set level of income.
(4): People who report high GPAs.
(5): Students satisfying some of the above criteria whose name does not appear in the database associated with any AP tests. </p>
<p>I did not receive such an email so, unless this is a new email as of this year or the last, it cannot be just 1 and/or 4.</p>
<p>I’m pretty confident that it isn’t 2, i’m Indian(Asian)
As you said it’s not 1 or 4. I haven’t taken an AP test yet, so that could be a possibility. And I didn’t specify an income so that wouldn’t be it either.</p>
<p>I think it’s score. I got one too, just now, and I’m fairly certain I did well on the PSAT. </p>
<p>I’m Hispanic (so it’s not race), 3.91 UW GPA, never taken any AP tests. Last year (sophomore year) I got 195 (yikes) and no email. </p>
<p>This year I got ~230 by my estimate, and received an email. I bet it’s a score cutoff. No factors changed for me besides score (I practiced a TON) and age.</p>
<p>Yeah I think you’re right. I don’t know my gap yet because I changed high schools this year.
I didn’t get an email last year, I did pretty bad(180), but I definitely practiced a ton and I think I did pretty well this year.</p>
<p>The email is new this year, but last year they sent out letters to your counselors. I had a 182 or 186 (I know, awful, no studying and I forgot to do the grid-ins) and they said I was qualified to take every AP course there is (except art). Haha, I saw the AP Calc courses and just about died laughing, I’m so bad at math…=P</p>
<p>yeah, it’s probably for noobs (just kidding ;D) who have never taken AP exams. I’m a junior and i received no such email. I’m 100% sure i scored within the 234-240 range, but i’ve also already taken 4 ap exams.</p>