Rookie here. I just want to be sure about the writing multiple choice number. It’s not the number correct, is it? It’s the multiple choice score under the total writing score. DS1 got all 49 questions correct January after having taken the PSAT in the fall as a Junior. So his number for the formula should be 80 right? So 710+740+80*10???= 2250, he should be good right?
His essay stunk - only got a 6. It was his first time to take the SAT or any graded essay. And I know his CR is a bit of an outlier. But since he has 2250, should be good? University of Alabama is our front runner right now. He’d like to go to Auburn, but they’re too stingy.
I believe when you look at the SAT score (which only has totals for each section, and raw MC scores), there is something to click on at the bottom of the section regarding “score details” or similar. On that page they have the MC “score” that you use. Your son’s score should be 80 if he did not miss any, but check the score details to get the number from that.
@bmolloy97 My son is interested in Auburn as well due to a good friend singing constant praises about them, but it does look as if package is not as stellar for NMFs as UA does.
Does anyone else on this thread have any experience with NMFs and Auburn? Do they have other scholarships that they may offer as well to help make up the difference and attract NMF students that are gazing toward UA and their generous package?
@4kids2graduate - my son was interested in Auburn as well. We toured the school and looked at their scholarship information. A huge concern was that none of their scholarships covered tuition 100%. It didn’t matter if your son/daughter was a NMF or got a 36 on the ACT. And the even bigger concern was that the scholarship amount was a flat amount. So when tuition goes up (which it does every year) you were responsible for the difference. We were also told that the OOS scholarships were not guaranteed. It is competitive but so far they have always been able to give the scholarships to all the OOS students. My son is a NMF. He chose Alabama and will be a freshman in the fall. He gets 5 years of tuition (if tuition goes up the scholarship will cover it), $3500/year stipend for 4 years, 1 year of housing, $2000 to study abroad, and a choice of either an ipad, Macbook Air, or a Dell Venue tablet. It was a no brainer. We just got our fall bill. It was under $1000. ROLL TIDE!!!
We were disappointed to come to the same conclusions with Auburn. The biggest deterrent is that the scholarship amounts will not increase when tuition does. They gave full tuition and room and board to NMFs about 4 years ago - after they won the National Championship in football. We were told that they are being more “fiscally responsible now” and won’t be doing that again - rather “investing” in faculty and facilities.
When we toured Alabama this past April we were told there were over 600 NMFs on campus at that point. That was an amazing number!
Mississippi State is offering him a similar package except theirs covers room and board for all 4 years as well. I believe the University of Kentucky has a generous package as well.
We didn’t look at Mississippi State and he wasn’t interested in going to Kentucky. We are in Louisiana and he wanted to stay in the south. Ole Miss offers a great NMF scholarship as well but he liked Alabama better. Good luck in your search!
My younger son has a 214 in Florida so fingers crossed. while he did not do as well on SAT, I believe its enough to qualify for finalist - my question is does national merit use the ‘super scores’ like the florida universities do to come up with the qualifying score or does it have to be from one sitting? both will probably qualify, but one would be 2050 and the other 2100. using superscore, it would be 2130. should I call national merit? all else would qualify him - IB student, all A’s thru junior year except for 5 B’s… GPA weighted of 4.7.
Might want to post in the Class of 2016 NMF thread for more replies, @Stanton2016. The qualifying score has been 1960, one sitting. However, they don’t use the full writing score -instead the MCx10. NMSC does not superscore, but I wouldn’t worry. My NMSC calculated score was a 2050 while my PSAT score was 211 and I made NMF just fine. (I’m a class of 2015 student.) As and Bs seem to pass, just not a lot of Cs. Good luck!
@albert69 thanks. I did delete the essay score when calculating and just used the subscore as posted elsewhere times 10 and then the math and reading scores. so, I guess the better of the two ‘one sittings’ would still calculate out at 2100, so should be fine.
I just want to be sure about the writing multiple choice number. It’s not the number correct, is it? It’s the multiple choice score under the total writing score. DS1 got all 49 questions correct January after having taken the PSAT in the fall as a Junior. So his number for the formula should be 80 right? So 710+740+80*10???= 2250, he should be good right?