hi
With regards to the TASP emails: I scored a 209 on the PSAT last year as a sophomore and a 2400 on the November SAT this year. I was very confident that I had done very well on the PSAT this year but have not received any emails
That’s a huge increase, how did you prep?
Just as an update, I have never participated or asked for information from the RSI or USABO programs before.
In relation to the college letters and emails, I received a large packet from Columbia dated Fall 2015. My address is extremely long and can be abbreviated. On last year’s PSAT I did not abbreviate the street name but on this year’s PSAT I did. This packet used the abbreviated street name, as I abbreviated it on the test.
I don’t think the email address or postal address changing means much of anything. If you change your email or postal address with college board (or any company) they update their database and change it. Your old scores won’t stay tied to your old email address, they are only going to save and use one. So if they sell a list that includes your old scores it will use the new email address, just like with any company that uses email marketing. My son changed his email address with the act last year and he can’t login with the old one anymore, and the new account shows his scores on both his tests, regardless of which email he used.
@caroldanvers I did not update my information with the college board account. I just checked and the information for my college board account has the full address, no abbreviations. I only ever inputted the abbreviated address on the 2015 PSAT test.
@DuelingGloves I am sure College Board is going to only have 1 account for you, they don’t have 2 separate accounts with 2 separate addresses. They have plenty of information to tell you are the same person. So all your information is merged, whether you can see it or not yet. So the address they use doesn’t tell you anything about your PSAT scores, and the address they use when information is sold is more a function of timing than anything you can read into it about your scores.
for any worried juniors who don’t feel like reading through all 62+ pages of this thread, rest assured: there is no proof that an email from Telluride/Stanford/Harvard etc. indicates a particular score.
and to everyone else (parents, namely)- chill. college board is doing the best they can.
So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done.
“college board is doing the best they can”
If this is the best it can do, the best is pretty bad.
DS is a sophomore this year and he just got the Stanford letter. He used a nickname for the PSAT this year (that’s reason that CB originally said they had no record of him even taking the PSAT this year) and the letter was addressed using his nickname.
So I am choosing to believe since he’s getting this invite as a sophomore and they used a the nickname he used on his PSAT (only other CB tests were 8th grade PSAT and one 9th grade AP where he used his full legal name, he did not take the PSAT in 9th grade and has yet to take either SAT or ACT) that this is a sign that he did well on the PSAT.
Still, January 7th is so far away…
I know that we don’t have definitive proof that CB sold our scores to these programs already, but it is definitely looking pretty likely. We’ll find out for sure on January 7th whether these letters actually connected to our scores, but I for one wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
Tinfoil hat. Turned inside out.
In other news, Steve Harvey was just hired as a consultant for CB.
Can we wear the Tinfoil hats for New Year’s as well? I’m just getting used to mine.
I’m so out of the loop with pop culture, the only Harvey that came to mind was Harvey the invisible rabbit! http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/62645/Harvey-Original-Trailer-.html
I had to google Steve Harvey and think I’d rather the invisible rabbit as a CB consultant!
I got an email for the Harvard Summer Scholars and I was wondering if this means anything. I didn’t get anything from Columbia or TASP though. I’m nervous for my score 
@3scouts: It is funny to me that you had to give a link, but I get it.
I think Steve Harvey was feeling a bit of a need to harness the powers of invisibility for a while there.
??? Steve Harvey? Two sided tin hats??? I’m lost.
Ah Harvey - the pooka. I remember that story.
Steve Harvey is a perfect match for the Coleman College Board.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/host-steve-harvey-crowns-wrong-miss-universe/story?id=35880292