College Board National Recognition Award -- new "School Recognition Award"

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of this, but today my daughter received a letter in the mail informing her of her eligibility for this award. Upon a bit of research, it looks like a new program where they recognize the top 10% of scorers in the PSAT for each school. Anyone else know more about this?

Absolutely ridiculous marketing ploy.

I think now that they aren't able to distinguish kids by race, they are coming up with permissible ways to signal that kids are high-achieving relative to their socioeconomic peers.

Interesting...is that Hispanic Recognition program gone now?

Yes, it is gone. But if you are from a rural area you get an award.

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Oh I saw a letter from College Board in our Informed Delivery. I bet that’s what it is.

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Anonymous wrote:So annoyed our private school in DC strongly discouraged kids from taking the PSAT and made it optional this year. Said the National Merit cut off in DC is so high it is a waste of time.

This makes no sense. If your kid can score high enough, then even better for them!

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of this, but today my daughter received a letter in the mail informing her of her eligibility for this award. Upon a bit of research, it looks like a new program where they recognize the top 10% of scorers in the PSAT for each school. Anyone else know more about this?

Is your kid a junior or a senior?

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of this, but today my daughter received a letter in the mail informing her of her eligibility for this award. Upon a bit of research, it looks like a new program where they recognize the top 10% of scorers in the PSAT for each school. Anyone else know more about this?

Is your kid a junior or a senior?

Replying to myself here… my sophomore got an email saying he was eligible for this award, and gave him a link to fill out some info, which he did, but we didn’t know what it meant. Sounds like others got it by regular mail?

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We just got it by regular mail. If low effort no reason not to go through the process.

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My son received both a letter today and an email a couple of weeks ago.

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did anyone's kid not getting the letter? i think everyone got it.

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Anonymous wrote:So annoyed our private school in DC strongly discouraged kids from taking the PSAT and made it optional this year. Said the National Merit cut off in DC is so high it is a waste of time.

It seems reasonable to make it optional but why would they discourage it? Seems weird that they wouldn’t want NMSF. The cut off is not that much higher than Virginia.

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DD just got this too. She is a Junior. Not sure if this is due to AP scores or PSAT.

It seems like a bunch of kids should get this at our high school. Not sure how this is any different than AP Scholar?

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Without hooks, top 10% in a school is not that impressive for any private college in the T25 or any of the T5 publics. It will be used as a proxy to figure out top students in low-performing majority-URM high schools

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I think the issue is that college board can't get student data automatically now with digital tests so they are sending out this and students and self reporting their info that college board can turn around and sell.

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Anonymous wrote:Without hooks, top 10% in a school is not that impressive for any private college in the T25 or any of the T5 publics. It will be used as a proxy to figure out top students in low-performing majority-URM high schools

In our private school, over 20% of graduating seniors matriculate to top 25 schools. So the fact that my DD is in top 10% for her PSAT (and no doubt her ACT), makes me feel pretty confident she will end up where she wants to go (not an ivy).

Will the award make the difference? Probably not, but it made her feel pretty good.

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Anonymous wrote:did anyone's kid not getting the letter? i think everyone got it.

I don't think so. The way it is worded, it is only going to those who are "eligible." Eligibility is determined by PSAT score being in top 10% of the school. Why would they send the letter to every kid that took the PSAT?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the issue is that college board can't get student data automatically now with digital tests so they are sending out this and students and self reporting their info that college board can turn around and sell.

What? They have the data. You don’t have to self-report anything.