<p>when do the scores usually come out? IIRC, sometime before christmas? If so, we should be getting ours in a couple of weeks!!</p>
<p>Counselor indicated that my S' school will distribute scores on Dec 14, IF they have received them.</p>
<p>Last year's CC messages reported that the earlier mailed scores arrived in the first week of December.</p>
<p>Please note that some schools do not distribute the score reports until January. Check with your counselor to find out for your school.</p>
<p>Reminder: if your PSAT score looks high enough to make you a semi-finalist, you will have to include an SAT I score in your application for finalist your senior year; ACT will not suffice.</p>
<p>last year i got mine before 12/8. i know because that was the day i got my wisdom teeth out and i had my scores before that</p>
<p>^^^ haha
thanks everyone for your replies.</p>
<p>It's time to bump this thread because everyone is waiting for PSAT scores. Based on last year's experience reported in CC threads, don't expect to see your scores until the first week of December. You may start getting college mail before you see your scores.</p>
<p>I'll post the link about the scoring issue of some copies of the Saturday PSAT just FYI. </p>
<p>Important</a> information about the writing skills section question 21 on the Saturday test.</p>
<p>You know, I managed to push the PSAT out of my mind and now I not going to go to sleep because of anxiousness of my score.</p>
<p>last year, i didnt get mine until january, after winter break.</p>
<p>Don't just ask, pester them in the week before Christmas break, they might relent and give them out!</p>
<p>yeah, if you have a good relationship with your counselor you could ask for them early.</p>
<p>Just another bump to say it's unlikely you'll see PSAT scores before next week. Back to school tomorrow for most students, I suppose.</p>
<p>Supposedly CB/ETS starts mailing high schools the PSAT results at the very beginning of December, but how long it takes them to finish mailing, and what sort of delivery service they use (pony express during the Christmas rush?) is a mystery of life. There seems to be a link on the PSAT countdown thread showing what might have been a method to get to 2006 scores early using the CB website, but this doesn't seem to work at the moment. (If there ever was a loophole, I'm thinking it was closed for this year.)</p>
<p>just wondering, do colleges usually send out mail to those inside their middle 50% range, or outside? just wondering because i checked out the middle 50% for sat scores of the colleges that seem to be a part of a new influx of letters, and they dont seem that high. so thats worrying me a little bit. for example, i dont think i did worst than last year, especially the math section b/c all the multiple choice were easy and i almost got all the write ins, but the ranges for the colleges that are sending me mail are like 450-580 for math. :-\
dont know if this makes any sense, but thanks for reading.</p>
<p>Hi, mtrinh91, my oldest son is a tenth grader (he took the PSAT this year, which is still unusual in this state although it is common in other states), and we haven't seen any surge of mail yet. Just today my son got what I think is his second postal mailing from a college whose regional joint information session he visited more than a year ago. He's gotten just a few other pieces of postal mail, mostly from other colleges whose info sessions he has attended or from Simon's Rock, which I hear sends mail to most young people with heartbeats. :) </p>
<p>I wouldn't guess anything about how you look as a candidate for admission from who sends you mail. It may be that the lower-tier colleges mail much more aggressively, and some of the higher-tier colleges play it cool (or save the trees) a bit more. Just read the mail that interests you, donate the rest to someone who will like it, and build a good application list that definitely includes one sure-bet safety college. Good luck.</p>
<p>That's you, tokenadult. : )</p>
<p>My son is a sophomore who took the PSAT, and for three weeks we've been getting lots of e-mails and snail mails from a variety of colleges -- some we'd be interested in, such as Georgia Tech, some I've read about on here, such as WUSL, and some I've never heard of. I assumed he's getting these contacts because he checked Hispanic, and that every minority kid taking the PSAT would be contacted by colleges who are most interested in increasing their URMs. Are you saying that the colleges already know his scores? </p>
<p>(If your answer is yes, that's going to make waiting until the last week in January unbearable!)</p>
<p>I'm not sure if colleges know scores yet or not. Yesterday's snail mail had a very ambiguous sentence in it that MIGHT imply that colleges know scores.</p>
<p>Most of the correspondence has ambiguously said that S is "the kind of student we're looking for." What's that mean? Male? Hispanic? Great score? With a pulse? I had pretty much decided that it didn't mean anything, especially because one school assumed he was a junior.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>