A reasonable scenario for the lack of response is that CB is out of the office today (Christmas Eve) and tomorrow (Christmas Day) - as are many professional businesses, admissions offices, etc. Hopefully Plotinus will get a response by Monday 12/28.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!
OK Merry Christmas to D3 as well - she just got the Stanford letter today. So she has that going for her 
To aid in the information gathering: She did NOT take any College Board exam or assessment before the PSAT. That includes AP, SAT, PSAT in previous years, etc. The only outside assessment she’s taken is ACT (scored in top 1% of that).
When are scores coming out >.> My counselors still haven’t said anything.
@SAT4Breakfast Schools will have access to scores starting on January 6. Students will get an email giving them access to their scores on January 7.
@foliontai Thanks
Aren’t TASP and Telluride acceptances such that they do not limit their candidates or participants to merely high-scoring test takers?
The programs require such depth and breadth of scope and range of interest and commitment to discourse, discipline and ability to be challenged beyond that which is able to be quantified that the pool of students are truly diverse across a broad range of characteristics.
@Waiting2exhale Telluride doesn’t require you to send grades or test scores until after the first wave in the application process. They focus a lot on you essays before scrutinizing grades and test scores.
As such, why would students think the Psat standing has any bearing on whether these programs reach out to contact them?
I would think a counselor has recommended a student who is looked at positively as possessing the requirements , and being able to meet the criteria, of the respective programs.
@Waiting2exhale Telluride defininently wants to encourage high-achieving students to their program, mainly so they can have a high-quality applicant pool.
@Waiting2exhale Wow, the counselors must have all gotten together in the last 2 weeks and recommended these students, using the same exact emails they used on the PSAT mind you- to recommend them via a blast email from Telluride. It couldn’t have been the College Board released PSAT scores to Telluride, even though they specifically list that program as a direct recipient of scores in their PSAT materials.
High-achieving in the one measure of being a strong test taker does in no way lend itself to the idea that the students are innovative, creative, concerned thinkers and doers.
I remember reading about both Telluride and TASP years ago (maybe four) and the literature was very clear that the students chosen do not have to be among the highest grade-earners at a high school, and in fact candidates should be culled from those that can be seen to be wide-ranging, community-minded, who weave an astute and aware philosophical bent into a working ethic that can be seen and felt when one is in the presence of the student.
That the test scores are requested only after the essays are reviewed would suggest the strength of the applicants is expected to be found in their individual statements: their voices; their passions, interests, efforts and capacities to imagine how they would contribute to the world.
The discussion regarding Telluride going on in this thread is only in regards to the fact that they are sending out blast invitations to apply. These are just emails targeting high scoring kids (and sometimes non-high scoring kids) so they hear about the program. Anyone can apply anyway- the only reason we are having this discussion is because we KNOW, at this point–after all this investigation and discussion, that CB has released the mid-October PSAT test scores to Telluride, and has not released them to the students who took (and paid for) the test.
No one is discussing the merits, difficulty, criteria etc… of the actual SELECTION of students to the program. This is just about who got the email blast. And thanks to a bunch of posters, we now know that the data used in the email (email addresses and SCORES) came from CB from this years PSAT.
“using the same exact emails they used on the PSAT mind you”
I have no idea what that means, Suzy.
Your snark aside, you are telling me information that I did not have access to before, namely that the Psat makes a statement to the effect of releasing the scores to certain groups and organizations, TASP and Telluride among them. That is something you could have communicated differently.
The encouragement to high-scoring students to apply that univbound101 referred to makes sense in light of that, and must further be understood to be but one measure of how students will be determined to be strong applicants to the program. Where top grades and scores have worked as entry points in the past, such students, if they are one dimensional, may find that even such objective measures do not put them in a stronger light than students who present with other tools under their belts.
@Marmelot
Maybe the holiday is the reason CB has not responded to my tweets asking whether 2015 junior PSAT scores had been released to Telluride Association. However, I sent the tweets all on December 23, the first pretty early in the day, when CB should still have been open.
I will let you know if I hear anything from CB after the weekend.
@waitingtoexhale
College Board has missed its own deadline to release scores to students and schools, but there is circumstantial evidence that CB may have released the scores on time to Telluride Association (although Telluride has denied this to people over the phone). People are angry about scores being sent to a private institution but not to the students or their schools. Students are anxious about their scores. You can read about the whole situation in more detail if you go back some pages in the thread.
@suzyQ7 Are you suggesting that only the mid-October scores were sent to TASP? What about the late October ones (when I took it)?
Thanks @plotinus. It is strange that they didn’t get back to you on the 23rd if you contacted them in the morning but within the realm of possibilities given the (most likely) high volume of social media commentary and the upcoming holiday. No excuses though beginning next week.
Forgive me because I don’t recall this from the conversation - did someone getting one of those Stanford or Brown letters contact College Board? I may do so next week. I’m flummoxed as to why D3’s letter took so long compared to everyone else’s but guessing that it went out in batches. Perhaps they began with the 1%'ers first and worked their way down to the bottom of the cut-off. If so she’ll be lucky to get Commended. Fingers crossed!
No, not saying that at all. It appears from various posts that CB has sent PSAT scores… I’m sure if they sent scores, it would have been both sittings in October.
@Mamelot Way back on page 26, post #376, a student who took the PSAT for the first time this year called Stanford and was told that the letter was sent to the top 5% of scorers on the PSAT.
Did any one else have more than 1 kid take the PSAT and both use the same email address? and if so did they both receive mail? My 11th and 9th grader both used my email. The 11th grader has received the emails/letters from Brown,Stanford,Princeton and a whole bunch more(not telliride) but my 9th grader hasn’t received anything… and honestly I think there is a possibility the 9th grader did better than the 11th grader on the test…so I’m wondering how accurate all this email stuff really is…
@foliontai I know, but I think Commended and up has been the top 4% hasn’t it? If so and she’s at the 95th instead of 96th she’ll miss commended. Pooh. Oh well - something else to worry about.
BTW she got the Brown e-mail as well but it’s hard to say this is due to her PSAT score because I’m pretty sure we were signed up to receive Brown Pre-College program info. anyway. Was there special wording or something to suggest it was anything but a general mail blast?