@Studious99: Yes, the difference in score ranges per group has not closed significantly enough to close what has, historically, been a wide gap.
@nw2this: The schools have the options of folding the criteria of the National Achievement Scholarship program into the criteria of any of their new or existing sources of merit scholarships, but will absolutely not be able to award any funds under that title. As all the monies awarded under that title came from the entities which funded the scholarship, there are no funds which exist in that incarnation.
I am sending you a PM.
Hi, I know this is kinda intrusive and digressing from the topics being discussed above, but does anyone know how to tackle the History passages on the reading section of this new SAT?
Those History passages that are from the 1800’s or earlier use such archaic language that I can’t comprehend ANYTHING in the passage, so I literally end up missing half of the questions (I use Khan Academy’s passages, so they’re as close to the actual test you can get at the moment).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can understand what the passage is saying, or how to like translate it into plain/modern English? Especially those old Federalist Papers passages.
Thanks in advance.
Steven
Well, if the test reflects aptitude, effort, and long term commitment to doing well in academics then the Asians will continue to excel at these tests, followed by whites …then others. If these qualities are what make for successful college students, then colleges will select these students for scholarships. Unfortunately, many times these Asian students have no childhood or life outside of academic pursuits-weekend and holiday test prep as well as tutors and academic summer programs lasting 7-9 weeks. What kind of young adult does this produce?
I hate how if I get above average scores people would believe I have no life and that I’m a test taking drone. Not all Asians fall into that category. Most that I know don’t either. Maybe this is more prevalent at top high schools in the country, but I doubt the majority of Asians are like this.
@ThatSpellingGuy111 : Pick an older piece of literature and deeply invest time in becoming familiar with the difference in terms, the difference in the way we speak now and how it was said then, the difference in, say, cultural aspects of how we lived and work in the past, and how we do so now.
Read Dickens’ Great Expectations, and Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, or for more simple reading, try Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes.
Make a list of the things that are absolutely unfamiliar to you. Write the list of items out by hand to improve your mind’s chances of making the information your own.
AThatSpellingGuy111 I’d also recommend reading some original source old documents like the US Constitutions and Bill of Rights as well as famous things the The Gettysburg Address so you are familiar with the style.
@ThatSpellingGuy111 I agree with the above two posts. Also, read a variety of 19th century UK and US authors (Austen, Bronte, Melville, Hawthorne, Cooper) plus poets such as Poe, Longfellow, Whitman, etc. The more you read, the better you will do in the CR part of the SAT.
Jane Austen seems to be very popular with the writers of the new SAT.
For non-fiction, I would recommend The Federalist Papers, Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, and de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
Received an actual letter in the mail from TASP today, I did receive the email as well.
Also received another Stanford mailing concerning summer programs today. I hope it means I did well.
I received the TASP mail today. Has anyone considered the possibility that TASP used both last year and this year’s PSAT score, so they wouldn’t 'be lying if they said that they used last year’s?
Just curious, when received letters or materials or emails from different universities or academic summer programs, what do you do with them? Do you share with your DC immediately or keep them for future references or throw them away/delete them? My DD’18 has received many universities materials (I don’t know why) and I just throw away most of them without even mentioning to her (universities that won’t be on our lists), and for those schools that I’m interested to seek her opinion, she has no interests to explore further. Her reason is she is sophomore and she doesn’t know yet. I don’t even know if she received TASP mail.
@jjkmom My kids just throw them away. We learned with our older kids and now the younger ones don’t check the box to have their info shared. I’m not sure how many trees worth of mailings my older kids received, but it was annoying. They would get mail inviting them to apply when they had already applied and been accepted! My weakest student got mail from all sorts of schools where she didn’t stand a chance of being accepted. Most of the mail is nothing more than pure marketing and not an indication of anything at all. (I don’t know anything about TASP, though.)
My freshman in college just got the Sanford mailing. He did not take the PSAT this year, for what that’s worth.
My kid took PSAT in 2014 and used my email address. She took it again as a Junior in October 2015 and used her email address. She got the TASP email, and I got the Stanford email.
Thanks @Mom2aphysicsgeek ! I agree, lots trees wasted!
Only 4 more days 
I just noticed that next year they are bringing back the the Saturday testing option
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt-psat-10/k12-educators/psat-nmsqt-dates
Scores will be released on the 7th. Does anyone know if that means the scores will be available just past midnight (eastern time)?