<p>He’s fine. Your son’s PSAT score has nothing to do with his SAT score. His SAT is high enough. </p>
<p>There is NO COMPARISON of PSAT to SAT at all.</p>
<p>Thank you for your quick reply! He is a National Merit Semifinalist and had to take the SAT to confirm his PSAT performance. He actually did better overall in the composite score, but his individual math score was not as good. So I am wondering how they evaluate whether he will qualify for finalist.</p>
<p>Mom2CK has posted the formula in another thread, but here goes:</p>
<p>Math+CR=x
multiple choice subscore on writing portionX10=y
x+y=z
z must equal 1960+ according to a call I placed to NM corp. </p>
<p>If I missed something, I am sure it will be corrected by others!</p>
<p>That is the formula, all right. DD2’s NMF adjusted SAT score actually went DOWN 20 points but was still well above the threshhold. I didn’t know she was such an awesome writer (especially since she HATES english)!</p>
<p>Thanks for this info! So I am guessing he is fine, the decline in the math score won’t be an issue since his SAT composite is 2190, and won’t need to retake the test.</p>
<p>According to [Understanding</a> Your SAT Scores](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>Understanding SAT Scores – SAT Suite | College Board), “The multiple-choice writing section counts for approximately 70 percent…of your total raw score.” So would we have to multiply our total writing score by 0.7 to figure out the “y” added to our CR+Math?</p>
<p>I don’t understand how Scout0’s son only lost 40 points from his total writing score. If the above is correct, I would have lost 186 points from my total writing score of 620 and earned only a score of 1804 to be confirmed with the National Merit Organization.</p>
<p>An overall SAT score of 1990 is definitely not enough, right?</p>
<p>I used Aggie84’s method above. He got a 750 for the Writing score. He got a 79 for the multiple choice subscore. Multiplied by 10= 790 for the corrected writing score they use. This is for National Merit Semifinalist qualification, not just in determining the SAT score.</p>
<p>D has combined reading and math SAT score of 1350. 71 in PSAT writing. So 2060 for NMF?</p>
<p>Spackler, the Writing MC score comes from the SAT, not the PSAT. Her SAT Writing score should be broken down into an essay score and a multiple-choice score. Take that MC score (not the PSAT one), multiply it by 10, and add it to the CR+M score. You got it almost right. :)</p>
<p>Gottcha, anything over a 34 x 10 gets it on writing. Thanks. Any one see NMSF list for Pa?</p>
<p>Wow, I am shocked at how many GC’s don’t know what’s going on with National Merit!! I’m so glad those of you on here took initiative!</p>
<p>Does anyone know which boarding schools are included int eh New England pool? Is it only the “elite” schools, or all that are geographically in New England?</p>
<p>Does anyone know what the deadline is to update your #1 college choice? I’m still undecided so I left it blank, but I definitely want to put in one of my top two choices. I just want to wait until I hear back my scholarship options so I know which one to choose.</p>
<p>You can update it all the way to May. Usually you list the one that you are considering which has a major NMF scholarship as part of the admission. Lots of people use University of Alabama.</p>
<p>My kid had listed USC until May when it was changed to the college currently attending.</p>
<p>I believe Northeastern’s date is April 13th.</p>
<p>Hi all,
I don’t know if this is the right thread to post, but I searched for National Merit and this thread popped up. So apologies if it is not the right place.
My question is how much weightage being a National Merit SemiFinalist carries, for an application to the Ivy League schools? If you are not a NMSF, are your chances drastically reduced of getting into the ivies? Many thanks for your answers.</p>
<p>^ Ivies probably get 5-6k applications from NMSFs if not more. None of them give a scholarship for it and so other than just an honor, it does not hold extra weight.</p>
<p>Here is the address of the whole forum of discussions so you can see a lot of different threads on this:</p>
<p>[National</a> Merit Scholarships - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/]National”>National Merit Scholarships - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>And here is a thread from within this forum that specifically discusses your query.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1391468-does-nmsf-matter-top-tiers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1391468-does-nmsf-matter-top-tiers.html</a></p>
<p>Guys…quit worrying about PSATs or SATs…I only got a 209 and still got accepted to Harvard. No Lie.</p>
<p>congratulation @Dragonoh! any specials you consider about yourself? would you like to share? thank you</p>