It is NOT. That test that colleges don’t actually use for admission? That test that has no bearing on post-college life and little on during-college life? That test that most people only take once and promptly put in the past? It’s more important than AP scores, which can demonstrate mastery of material and get you out of the equivalent college classes? More important than the SAT, which is what schools actually use for admission? More important than the MCAT, the LSAT, any other alphabet soup acronym that actually has anything to do with real life?
My commended 211 got me the opportunity to apply for a small 4-year scholarship from my dad’s job. It didn’t get me into any colleges. It didn’t get me any huge awards. It didn’t even guarantee me that scholarship – I got that based on GPA, SAT, essays, recs (the more important stuff). The PSAT is completely useless to anyone who’s not commended or national merit, aka THE MAJORITY of the population.
Interesting choice of gendered insults to describe someone you don’t know and have only heard of anecdotally, anonymously, over the Internet.