<p>For those you don’t know, PSAT scores will be available on the CB website “mid-December”. Last year that was earlier than “mid”, and before the HS sent them home.</p>
<p>I thought we needed a code found on the hard copy of the report to access the scores online. I know we we unable to get at them online til the scores were sent home last year for some reason.</p>
<p>The site says…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/psat/quickstart.html?BannerID=ba_190554&AffiliateID=1[/url]”>http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/psat/quickstart.html?BannerID=ba_190554&AffiliateID=1</a></p>
<p>Taken the PSAT before?
"My College QuickStart is a valuable part of your PSAT/NMSQT experience. To access your most recent test results online, you need a College Board website account and the access code printed on your PSAT/NMSQT paper score report. It typically takes less than two minutes to create your FREE account.</p>
<p>It ALSO says…
<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>Taking the PSAT/ NMSQT in November?
“Congratulations on taking an important step towards college and your future career. Your 2009 PSAT/NMSQT results will be online in mid-December.”</p>
<p>“Enter your email address below, and we’ll let you know as soon as your results are available.”</p>
<p>I honestly don’t remember exactly HOW I did it, but I think last year, I had an '07 score report. I probably used that to set up a Quick Start account, and shortly after, the '08 results popped up.</p>
<p>I need to have DS ask his guidance counselor about his score. He is kicking around applying for a summer program with apps due in January which would mean he should be asking for rec letters this week. I think his score will determine whether or not he applies. He had a bad day, and thinks he totally bombed it. If so, taking the January SAT and just reporting that on apps with later due dates would be to his advantage.</p>
<p>We are still waiting for the PSAT scores too</p>
<p>A local hs sent them home on the 2nd…out student gets them tom…</p>
<p>I had hoped we could see them on the college board site…no luck…</p>
<p>ARISAMP–ECs thats too funny!</p>
<p>I was on pins and needles to receive Son’s two years ago because his 10th grade scores had been pretty high. From prior testing, I can tell that my '11 isn’t anywhere in the neighborhood of NMSF, so I have no PSAT anxiety at all!</p>
<p>D2 got her PSAT scores back today, exactly the same total as her Oct SAT, only with more balance between sections. If only she had done the same on the SAT, she wouldn’t have retaken it last weekend. Oh well, we can only hope that she picked up a few new strategies in her month of prep and that this set of questions was more to her liking ;).</p>
<p>D got her PSAT scores today. One point short of the cut-off for our state last year. Let’s see which way the scores fluctuate for this jr. class. Do I understand correctly that the official cut-off won’t be announced until Sept. 2010?</p>
<p>I believe that’s correct, quite a long wait!</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got PSAT scores back, and here’s to hoping that hillbillie’s state cutoff fluctuates down!</p>
<p>Got to hammer home a little life lesson to D1 last night. She was putting in an app for a summer internship. I’ve mentioned to her about the UC servers crashing near the deadline, so she’d told me that she wanted to get her app in early. Her essays were finished well in advance of the deadline. Then life interfered. The night before the app was due, she was apparently up late at night having trouble getting her info to save properly. For whatever reason, the software wasn’t working correctly on the family computers. She sent me a frantic email asking if she could try it on my work laptop. It worked, with a few hours to spare.</p>
<p>There was a parental lecture on how she needed to allow a couple days just in case of technical issues. Better to learn that now then in the heat of next year’s app cycle.</p>
<p>The internship is a longshot, but at least it’s gotten D1 thinking about her essays for next year.</p>
<p>SlitheyTove,</p>
<p>I suggested researching one college a week. Like I mentioned, S was more eager than D. So far, I haven’t seen her do a thing.</p>
<p>With all the snow outside, both were outside playing with the neighbors’ kids - having a snowball fight, making a snowman and now inside playing the Wii. Can’t complain - they should have fun. But a part of me is wondering if this isn’t the best time to catch up on stuff she can’t do typically otherwise!</p>
<p>D1 just texted me that she got her PSAT–OMG, 231!!! Big ramp-up over previous times. Please let me not be jinxing it by posting this here. :)</p>
<p>She’s really happy, which is the best part.</p>
<p>That’s so great, SlitheyTove…to be so far over the cutoff that there are no worries.</p>
<p>Scores are now available on College Quick Start. I had to have the access code from the paper report. Not much change from last year (actually reading was four points lower), but writing increased ten points. That was the section he spent some time practicing.</p>
<p>Great news Slithy, nice to KNOW that she’ll be NM, even in CA! Also bodes well for the SAT if she hasn’t already taken it.</p>
<p>D2 is on the bubble, she’s 2 pts above the state cutoff, which has been the same for 2 years; hope all those 2s are lucky!</p>
<p>Yeah, we noticed that scores were available on the college board website, but that doesn’t do us any good because the school won’t send home the paper scores with the access code. Even though I’m not expecting anything terribly high, it’s a pain to be left wondering.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D SlitheyTove! Has she recently taken the SAT? Wouldn’t that be great if the PSAT translates over to 2310 on the SAT. I just tried to get onto the college board web site, but it is “unavailable” right now. As others have mentioned I think I need the access code anyway.</p>
<p>arisamp, I like the researching one school a week idea.</p>
<p>entomom, bubbles rise to the top, right? 
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<p>mamom, D1’s not taken the SAT I yet. She’s taking the ACT this weekend. The initial game plan was to skip the SAT I if she did well on the ACT, but now she’ll have to take it regardless. Plan is for her to take it in March, with a possible retake in the fall.</p>
<p>It’s been cold, quote unquote, in SoCal, meaning highs in the mid-50’s and lows in the high 30’s. All of you cold weather people, feel free to laugh When I picked up D1 last night, she’d been standing outside for 5 minutes and was complaining about how it was So Cold. It will be interesting to see how this plays into her choices for a school.</p>
<p>I know it’s only December, but my D is starting to get information in the mail about summer programs, and I’d like her to do something other than hang out this summer. She tried to find a job last summer, without success (summer jobs are difficult to find in our area) and especially since this will be the summer before her senior year, I’d like her to do something constructive over the summer. Most of the programs soliciting her were ones I’ve checked out only to find that they’re ok but not particularly highly regarded, and I’d like to find something that may favorably impress college admissions folks. She’s an excellent student, with a passion for history and writing, with some good leadership skills. Pretty vague, I know. Any recommendations?</p>
<p>cooker, take a look around the [Summer</a> Programs - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/summer-programs/]Summer”>Summer Programs - College Confidential Forums) forum. There are more options for science/math/engineering, but there are some humanities options. The big kahuna may well be [Telluride</a> Association: Summer Program for Juniors (TASP)](<a href=“http://www.tellurideassociation.org/programs/high_school_students/tasp/tasp_general_info.html]Telluride”>Telluride Association Summer Seminar (TASS) - Telluride Association). This is an incredibly intense and competitive program, definitely not for all, but the students who are selected and take part cannot say enough good things about it. I wanted D1 to at least try to apply, but she’s not interested. </p>
<p>Even though summer jobs are scarce in your area, could your D find some kind of volunteer or internship opportunity? My impression is that admissions people aren’t necessarily impressed by programs where the only criterion is that you write the big check. Which isn’t to say that your child shouldn’t spend a summer at Brown or volunteering overseas, just that it’s not going to necessarily boost their chances any more than finding something to do close to home. You might want to post separately in the general parents forum to see if non-2011 parents have suggestions.</p>