<p>Right - to clarify: NMSC does not include the SAT essay as part of the confirming score since there is not an essay on the PSAT.</p>
<p>@Eaglessoar, did you or your S complain to College Board about the buzzing clock? I believe if you do so in a timely manner, there is some compensation such as a make up test. A local school had a fire alarm set off due to some construction that was going on in a different section of the building while an SAT was being administered. If you notified CB right away, something could be done, but if you waited for grades to be sent out, they did nothing.</p>
<p>Can you believe that? They were evacuated and everything!</p>
<p>I wish I had known that! It is too late now - he took it back in June. Hopefully, his score will be okay to move on to finalist. He can retest in Nov. if he has to.</p>
<p>I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before, but,</p>
<p>1) Is it okay to send an SAT score report for October? I’m taking subject tests next week, and I really don’t want to spend money to mail reports if College Board is going to give me four free ones anyway that report both subject tests and SAT I scores. Would sending the October report be considered “late” even though I took the SAT I in June?</p>
<p>2) Do I have to send SAT score reports separately to both National Achievement AND National Merit if I’m applying for both?</p>
<p>3) Is it okay to use the same essay for National Achievement and National Merit? Or is it frowned upon…?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>1) Yes…send the Oct score.</p>
<p>2) The NMCorp code is 0085 for NMF. If it’s the same for NH, then you probably only have to send it once since there’s no indication for one or the other.</p>
<p>3) I think it’s fine to send the same/similar essay. You might want to include something a bit different in the NA one…so maybe tweak a bit.</p>
<p>Got a 218 in NY. A few weeks before they gave me extra time. ■■■. But oh well, doubt it will be the difference between getting into a school or not.</p>
<p>Oh, nevermind.</p>
<p>I, like most of you in this thread, am a national merit semi-finalist (I was called in by my principal for congratulations), but have not yet received any of the necessary paperwork in order to become a NMF. Should I be worried? </p>
<p>Anyone else in IL not received their letter yet?</p>
<p>When you say that the essay portion is not used in qualifying, how is the writing score adjusted to reflect the omission of the essay?</p>
<p>Northern NH dad, if you look at your childs SAT scores - online or the mailed report, the writing section will have 3 numbers the actual score (200-800), the essay score (2-12) and the multiple choice score (80 or less). We understood it to mean to add a zero to the multiple choice score. If you go to the “MY SAT: MY SCORE REPORT” page, and click on the “Writing” tab, that page will show your score and then your MC and Essay components separately. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Thank you mommafrog.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if NMSC will take the highest SAT scores if multiple are sent - or do they just take the first ones sent? My son already took the SAT but is retaking in October to try to improve score. Should we send in the original results (which are over 2000), or wait to see how he does in October?</p>
<p>If he has over 2000, new scores are irrelevant.</p>
<p>Do the varying cutoff scores for each state represent the top 1% of scores for each state for that particular test sitting?</p>
<p>Northen…it makes no difference…once a score is over the minimum req’d, NMCorp doens’t care.</p>
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As far as I know, all states are allocated NMSF slots in the same way – according to their share of the nation’s HS graduates in any year (range in 2007-2008: 56% in DC to 89.6% in WI). Considered on a national basis this is about 1% of all test-takers (or about 0.5% share of all HS graduates and about 0.4% of the entire age group), but high-graduation rate states claim more slots than this and low-graduation rate states fewer. </p>
<p>HS graduation rates by state <a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010341.pdf[/url]”>http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010341.pdf</a></p>
<p>mumto3 - The allocation is made based on number of graduating seniors in a state as a percentage of nation’s graduating seniors. The test itself may be taken by only 20% or as many as 80% of the graduating seniors. So if a state has a low number taking the test, there may be a large number of test takers (someone said 5% in some states) get NMSF while a state like Mass may only have 0.2% of test takers.</p>
<p>By my quick estimates, UT, a state with a very low PSAT participation rate (about 16% of graduates), has about 3% of its test takers receive NMSF status. MA, a state with a very high participation rate (around 80% of graduates) has about 0.65% of its testers so identified. (Since there is no source for total NMSF’s allocated by state I have had to derive the numbers based on HS graduates per state).</p>
<p>Note that the number of NMSF slots is a fixed quantity - there are about the same 16,000 to be distributed each year regardless of test participation levels. So if UT’s participation rate were to increase it would still receive the same number of slots and the percentage of its graduates receiving NMSF designation would remain unchanged.</p>
<p>Descartesz: if you look at page 9 of the National Merit Annual report at: <a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf</a> it lists how many NMSF’s there are from each state. And try as I might, I can not find archived versions of these annual reports to see how the numbers change from state to state each year.</p>
<p>You can call NM and they will give you the numbers. I do know that LA has 198 NMSF this year and last year they had 186.</p>