New PSAT results
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Anonymous
This thread is about the Class of 2017. Which is DIFFERENT from last year. The CB is using a new scaling system. Last year the max you could get was a 240. This year the max is a 228. They changed the scale. No one knows what the new cut off will be. A 212 is a better guess than a 222. |
Anonymous
Actually, this thread is not about the class of 2017....see the actual thread title. |
Anonymous
| ^^What do you think the thread title means, and why are you disagreeing with the PP? |
Anonymous
He's definitely not motivated, unfortunately. Maybe things will turn around a little bit. It's kind of worrisome to think you had such high SATs and a 3.0 and that was still only good enough for a mediocre school. |
Anonymous
The title of the thread is the "New PSAT results." So unless those words are code for Class of 2017.... |
Anonymous
If we're talking about National Merit Qualifying scores, then any thread about the new PSAT results will apply to the 2017, since they're the class competing for NMScholarships this year. Since the test they took is totally different from the test taken last year, and score totally differently (2 subscores instead of 3, 3 digit subscores instead of 2) looking at last year's scores to try and guess this year's scores isn't helpfull. |
Anonymous
The class of 2017 and later are the only classes that will/have taken the new psat. Why do you keep arguing this point? Just feel prickly today or do you not understand? |
Anonymous
Exactly! |
Anonymous
| so what is the bet for the new cutoffs in DC, MD, and VA? |
Anonymous
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If you are a 2017 with a 96% - 99% score by percentile, what does that mean? I don't care about the 225 last year or whatever. Is being somewhere in the top 4 percent meaningful or just a nice thing along the way and an indicator of SAT success next? Is it the top 1% only or the top 3% only that gives a realistic shot at being an NMSF?
I know it is different by state, but what did a 2017 kid in the high 90%s get out of this aside from a great baseline indication for the SAT to come. |
Anonymous
If you are 99th percentile for all subsets, you have a shot for NMSF in all three local jurisdictions- no guarantee though. If you are in the 97th percentile overall- you have a shot at being commended. MD, DC and VA have traditionally had some of the higher cut offs. You can go to the massive thread on college confidential and see where the cut offs are for the 99th percentiles by subsets- if you are well above those cut offs for everything- you should be in the running. |
Anonymous
| Sorry for my lack of understanding. What is being commended? I thought only a hard cut to be nominated as a NMSF. Thanks for the information. |
Anonymous
I analyzed the old cut-off scores relative to the total and applied the percentages to the new total. Old test total=240 New Test Total=228 DC. 225 =94% of 240. 214 Maryland. 222=92.5% of 240. 211 Virginia. 222=92.5% of 240. 211 |
Anonymous
| Thank you PP! |
Anonymous
They cut differently for every state- so each state gets its proportional share of NMSF. If a student had a score that is not enough to be NMSF in his state but enough in another state, he gets "Commended". The range in any one year has been from 204-225 in the past (- or + depending on the year). DC,VA and MD have some of the higher cut offs. |