<p>Our HS received the students' PSAT scores early last week. Students who wished to access their scores online were told that the guidance office would not give them the password/code needed to retreive the scores until this week. Today the students were told that they could get the code beginning on Friday when the GCs would begin meeting individually with students to discuss their scores.</p>
<p>Needless to say, some students and their parents (who paid for the test) are not happy about having to wait 1-2 weeks to find out the scores. Personally, I don't see this as too big a deal but I can understand how this is causing additional unneeded angst for certain kids and parents. I also wonder if the school is violating any CollegeBoard policy by refusing to give families access to the scores online. I don't remember this being an issue with D1 as 4 years ago the school handed out PSAT scores a day after they were received. </p>
<p>Do any of your kids' schools handle this matter the way our school now does?</p>
<p>It’s worse for us. Kids don’t scores until the week after they return from winter break. The GCs don’t want to spend time on this issue while college apps are still pending for the seniors. I can understand the reasoning, but our kids take the PSAT in freshman and sophomore years and don’t need the long mtg by the time junior-year scores come along.</p>
<p>Some schools don’t distribute them until the Spring. Crazy. Every other test gets mailed to students directly. D2 is a sophomore so I’m not that concerned about scores this year; usually they get distributed during English classes after Winter break. </p>
<p>Our GC’s gave D1 the access code before break the year she was a junior after we asked. Which was good because we then knew she was NMSF I will be sending that same email about this time next year when D2 is a junior.</p>
<p>Just found out today our scores will be mailed out over Winter Break. So the wait isn’t so bad. The good part is only freshman pay to take the PSATs. The school system pays for sophmores and juniors. We do have to pay for transcripts when it comes time to apply to college. It’s so interesting how different high schools and different parts of the country do things so differently with the same test.</p>
<p>Our HS pays for the freshman and sophomores to take, I guess to help identify talented students whose talent is not as obvious to teachers and GC’s. But students have to pay to take it Junior year AND the HS only seems to encourage those who have scored well before or are likely to score well this time to sign up and pay.</p>
<p>We ALWAYS pay for PSATs no matter what year. The school picks up the cost of the PLAN (required of all sophomores) and a junior year ACT (required by the State of TN for graduation) but doesn’t administer the ACT with writing which then requires students to take the ACT again, no matter how well they do, as many schools are requiring either the SAT or ACT with writing.</p>
<p>Our school mails the information to us, we received it last week. They then meet with the current Juniors to explain what it all means in the next two weeks. Then in January they meet with the students individually to give them their Naviance password and discuss how our school works on college apps.</p>
<p>I understand parents are anxious but it seems that most schools handle PSAT scores through the guidance counselors, for better or worse.</p>
<p>The kids here will get them with access codes etc., from the GC on Thursday. However…they’re on Naviance already. If you look under “my scores” there they are, all three sections…so…you might check there if you’re anxious.</p>
<p>S’s HS did not hand out scores til after winter break and the GC’s could meet with the kids. The explanation was the GC had too much going on with college apps. up til the 1st of the year.</p>
<p>Man, until this thread I wasn’t even aware you could take the PSAT more than once. I remember in my school parents had to pay for it, and results were mailed home. I didn’t even meet a GC at my school until the fall of my senior year (though apparently the position had been a revolving door with four people filling the spot in four years).</p>
<p>Wow, if I had paid for the test, I wouldn’t appreciate having to wait for “guidance” to see the scores. My DD’s school sent the whole booklet and score report home with the kids sometime in Dec. Her counselor is nice enough, but I can’t imagine needing help interpreting the score.</p>
<p>We generally got them after winter break, too. School held them up til they were ready to distribute. </p>
<p>Suspect a major part of that reasoning was related to the guidance office needing to get out HS transcripts/recommendation packages out to colleges for the seniors, and because all of that info is confidential, it cannot be delegated to student helpers or parent volunteers. Next year, when your juniors are seniors and you are frantic about whether the transcripts will go out in time, you’ll understand why the PSAT scores were delayed. :)</p>
<p>^^^juniebug, you are already on CC, so you are already ahead of the curve. If you needed help interpreting the score, you have dozens of experts on call here ready to help! :D</p>
<p>I find it kind of ridiculous that the school is withholding the scores. They won’t be available until the kids get back from break and go to a workshop. Or they can wait till the access code doesn’t have to be input on January 15th.</p>
<p>No offense, but that doesn’t really help my junior taking the SAT on January 22nd. It would be nice to be able to focus on the test prep of what she needs, rather than pre-testing ALL of it.</p>
<p>If the College Board has the ability to post these online a full month with an access code before they are available without an access code, there is absolutely no logical reason for withholding access.</p>
<p>Just checked. ^^^ Only scores from last year. </p>
<p>I will say that when ds1 was a junior some kid on cc figured out how to “get” into the CB system (“hack” is such an ugly word ) and I was able to see his scores early, before CB closed that loophole.</p>
<p>My s’s school released the scores after winter break also. They had what sounded like a reasonable explanation, but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was.</p>
I will be sending that same email about this time next year when D2 is a junior.</p>
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) and I was able to see his scores early, before CB closed that loophole.</p>