<p>Why do schools choose to delay releasing PSAT scores? </p>
<p>People have mentioned several potential motivations: to prevent scores from interrupting with finals, to prevent scores from ruining winter break, to "read them over first". </p>
<p>I don't know about other schools, but for our school, all three reasons are invalid. </p>
<p>As a necessary premise, I have verified that our school has the reports. </p>
<p>If they wanted to keep scores from affecting finals, then they would have released our scores on the day right after finals. They didn't. Therefore, motivation one is out. </p>
<p>The second reason makes no sense either: first of all, who says scores "will ruin" our winter break? Sure, some people will want to destroy their reports, but others will treasure their 240s. Second of all, let's even assume it's a bad score. So instead of letting scores "ruin" a break, they'd rather release it once school begins so that it can damage school performance?</p>
<p>Finally, why would they want to "read it over first"? I understand that the registrar must record scores on transcripts, but the school has to make copies of the reports anyway, so why not first make the copies, next release the scores, and then use the copies to enter scores? </p>
<p>Schools defeat the purpose of the PSAT by delaying their release. The later we receive our reports, the less time we will have to utilize them for SAT preparation. There is no reason for delay.</p>