If you’re happy with your junior-year SAT score, does it even matter what your PSAT scores look like? The Dean investigates. https://www.collegeconfidential.com/articles/my-11th-grader-did-well-on-the-sat-does-anyone-care-about-his-psat-scores-now/
The answer is National Merit scholarships.
"If you’re happy with your junior-year SAT score, does it even matter what your PSAT scores look like? "
In this day and age when so many CC parents and students are trying to figure out how to find the $$ to pay for college, how could a CC editor NOT know about the National Merit Scholarship Foundation, which , along with it’s hundreds of sponsoring members, offer scholarships to qualifying students whose PSAT scores were in the top %?
https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/interior.aspx?sid=1758&gid=2&pgid=424
@menloparkmom “how could a CC editor NOT know about the National Merit Scholarship Foundation, which , along with it’s hundreds of sponsoring members, offer scholarships to qualifying students whose PSAT scores were in the top %?”
The editor knows. That is why she cited the article that she did, which discussed the National Merit Scholarship.
For some students, there may be one additional reason to care about the PSAT: the National Hispanic Recognition Program.
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt-psat-10/scholarships-and-recognition/national-hispanic-recognition-program
PSAT scores are used in Colorado as a criteria for the full ride Boettcher Scholars.
Many universities count National Merit Finalist as a NATIONAL award, so be sure to list that on every college application.
Nobody cares about the PSAT except those who are National Merit Scholars.
Not only it matters for merit money but NMS lists as a national level academic award on your resume. Unless you are URM, athlete or some special case with full aid or have money for full pay, it would matter.
You are in Montana, for someone with good SAT and GPA, making cut shouldn’t be difficult, unless SAT was a fluke.