<p>I will be a junior next year and am living overseas (I am a US citizen). How do I arrange to take the PSAT next fall? I have emailed the collegeboard several times and I only get a response saying I will receive a response, but then nothing.</p>
<p>And what state would I be compared to for NMF purposes?</p>
<p>I might be wrong but I do not think you can arrange for taking the test. My understanding is that it is a test available only to those attending US high schools and is actually administered by each high school that has it and you have to register through the high school. So unless your particular high school offers it, you cannot take it.</p>
<p>Even though your high school does not offer the PSAT, there might be a testing center close to you. You should find out where people in your area take the SAT, and asking there if they’ll be having a PSAT too.</p>
<p>^That is the issue with the PSAT which leads me to believe OP cannot take it. There are no offical testing centers for it like the SAT. It is given by and in high schools for the strudents in that high school.</p>
<p>According to: [PSAT/NMSQT</a> - For International Students](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/international/psat]PSAT/NMSQT”>International Students and PSAT/NMSQT - SAT Suite)</p>
<p>"In 2009, more than 62,000 students participated in the PSAT/NMSQT at 1,252 secondary schools located in more than 140 countries and territories outside the United States.</p>
<p>Students outside the U.S., whether American citizens or other nationalities, must make arrangements with a local school to register for and take the PSAT/NMSQT."</p>
<p>I read that passage too, unfortunately the local school has no idea how to arrange it either. I guess I’ll just keep emailing collegeboard. </p>
<p>Thanks for the replies!</p>
<p>Are there NO schools in the area where the PSAT is offered? If you’re in Mexico I know for sure of some school systems that offer the PSAT.</p>
<p>UPDATE: For those of you that might be in the same situation, I found the answer. If the PSAT is not offered in your area, but the SAT is, you can contact the National Merit corporation and request an alternate entry. You take the SAT in lieu of the PSAT. As to the specifics of how it is compared as far as scoring I don’t know, but you still have the opportunity to make NMF and semifinalist distinctions. All international students are grouped together for cutoff determination purposes (like how all students in one state have to make a state cutoff). If neither the PSAT nor SAT is offered in your area then I guess you’re just out of luck! </p>
<p>Hope that helps someone in the future!</p>
<p>Just logged in after a long gap</p>
<ul>
<li>there will be schools that will administer the PSAT if one lives outside the US.</li>
<li>you sign up as an external. </li>
<li>results will be sent to you directly instead of to the school as it would usually happen. </li>
</ul>
<p>I have found out a school in my location (bangalore india) from College board and got in touch with the school.
we are citizens overseas…
hope it helps.</p>
<p>thanks, a</p>