<p>I know last year it was some time in December but I don't really know when.</p>
<p>My school told us our scores a week or so before the december sat results were posted. So that’d be about in the very middle of december. I didn’t actually get my PSAT score result mailed to me though until quite a while later.</p>
<p>I don’t think you get them until December/January.</p>
<p>The College Board site says early December they go to schools, but my son’s school did not give them to student until near the winter break. Since they go to the schools, you can keep bugging your guidance counselor about it.</p>
<p>Considering the SAT has an essay and my son took the November SAT two weeks after the PSAT and has his SAT scores and full reports, I must assume that they don’t release the scores until they do the National Merit Scholarship analysis. You can bet if they have one or two states with very poor and one or two with very good PSATs, they are going crazy determining the cutoff scores.</p>
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I would question this reasoning. It doesn’t make sense that College Board would delay PSAT score reports on account of “National Merit Scholarship analysis.”</p>
<p>First of all, the National Merit Scholarship Company is a private entity that determines NMS semifinalist cut-offs on a state-by-state basis. I don’t believe that NMSC has any relationship with College Board beyond receiving PSAT score reports from CB.</p>
<p>Secondly, NMS semifinalist standing is not reported until September of the test-takers’ senior year. After scores come out in mid-December of the junior year, NMSC has approximately 10 months to go through the process of establishing state cut-offs. There’s no need to delay score reporting any further.</p>
<p>Generally, what happens at most high schools is that the guidance counseling office receives the PSAT results in early December…and then sits on them for several weeks. Guidance counselors are up to their eyeballs putting together college application materials for seniors, so they don’t want to deal with less important issues involving the juniors. Counselors also want to “brief” the students and their parents on the meaning of the PSAT scores. Often times, they’ll use it as an opportunity to initiate discussions about the college application process and various options for standardized test prep. School can be rather busy time near the winter holidays. That’s why some students end up getting back their PSAT scores as late as January.</p>
<p>Second week of December. Good luck!</p>
<p>Around mid December.</p>
<p>The results go to the school. They are sent around after 1st week of December but it is upto school/district to release them. Around here, they don’t give them out until after Christmas break (8th January or so).</p>
<p>Bartleby007, what’s your take on why they are later if CB and NMS are unrelated? The PSAT is shorter and no essay, and the SAT taken in early November got scores back less than three weeks later than the test date. </p>
<p>I know that at my son’s school, sophomores and juniors are bugging the GCs frequently to get their PSAT scores, so maybe that is why they do get them by winter break. I don’t know why they go through the schools at all, it seems like much more work all around. The schools handle AP exam sign ups similarly to the PSAT signups, yet their scores are now online.</p>
<p>I have another question though - what happens to my son’s 2012 PSAT scores once the 2013 scores are up? Do both score reports stay up (so we can compare) or do we need to print out his 2012 results to keep a copy of them?</p>
<p>We got an email from GC today stating they will be handed out after the holidays.</p>
<p>Got mine today. See my post.</p>
<p>what post are you talking about</p>
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<p>My son’s school said they received notification that their scores were mailed to them yesterday 12-3-13 and they would distribute them as soon as they got them. We are in Virginia</p>
<p>Our school got them today. Well, actually yesterday. I see it’s after midnight.</p>
<p>My school didn’t release them until mid January! Ouch!</p>
<p>According to my GC, we are getting our scores late this week, early next week. So nervous!</p>
<p>How odd that some schools send them out right away…but others wait a full month?! Jeez, what’s the issue here?</p>
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@SouthernHope: It’s not surprising at all. Read my previous post in this thread. Lots of public schools have a guidance counselor to student ratio of 1:500+. High school guidance counselors are often extremely busy in-between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. They need to facilitate the college application process for seniors – submit transcripts, ensure that teacher recommendations are sent, write “synthesis” guidance counselor letters (optional).</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense that many high schools postpone PSAT score release until January.</p>
<p>So I have a weird question and don’t know if anybody else noticed it. My son and I were looking at his College Board PSAT scores from last year- I noticed on one the the pages (Home > My Organizer > My College QuickStart) it stated" My SAT study plan- review 9 missed PSAT questions." This is not the amount he missed last year. When we clicked on it, it took us to a field to enter this year’s access code which we do not have yet. We are now wondering if that is the amount of questions he missed this year. Anyone else notice this on their college board account? Also I noticed the curves and the answer keys for the 2013 tests are now posted (including the math write-in answers). Here is a link for that
<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf</a>.
The curves seemed a bit harsher this year but I haven’t compared them side by side.</p>