<p>Just out of curiosity, when can colleges receive specific student score ranges for the PSAT from the College Board?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>This is a good question. My 2012 son and my son this year both started getting a larger volume of emails and regular mailings saying things like “we are looking for high caliber students like you” and stuff like that. These started coming weeks before the test scores came out.</p>
<p>Thanks for you reply @brawny77, I have started to experience this so that’s why I was wondering … </p>
<p>But does anyone else have a sure answer? (bump,bump,bump)</p>
<p>I know they market this info to schools and here is how I know:
Here is a true story from Uncle Brawny
When my oldest son (class of 2012) was a Junior, just before he took the PSAT a pretty senior girl asked him to play doubles tennis with her because her last years partner had graduated. We are a very small school and it doesn’t take much to play a sport here. Well he literally had never held a tennis racket in his hand but he says ok because she is a pretty senior girl and he figures he has a few months to learn. So when he is filling out the demographics part of the PSAT and SAT, he checks tennis as a sport he does because he thinks he is about to be in it. Well…the senior girl gets a big case of senioritis and decides not to play tennis so my son doesn’t play either. But (here’s the funny part) even though he had still never held a tennis racket in his hand…He gets a recruitment letter from Cal-tech tennis! I think it was the 230 he scored on the PSAT or the 2270 on the SAT. There was no other way that they could have received that info other that by it being provided by the testing folks. By the way he started playing tennis that summer and he is not so good lol.</p>