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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My neighbor in MD has a son in MCPS with a 225, and he was told he was a NMSF, but didn't seem like a real nail biter with that score ? if the commended score dropped 2 points and last year all the states (especially VA) when up a point or two, I would expect the cut offs to all come back a little. Good luck, OP! [b]Our daughter's school (also a Big 3) told the kids not to worry about NM when taking the PSATs because it wouldn't matter to most schools they would apply to.[/b][i] Horrible advice IMO, but who am I to say...we just write out the checks?[/quote]

This is also the advice our private school gave to its students.  As a result, my child did not prepare in any way for the PSAT and earned a very good score (99%ile nationally), but not good enough for DC's NMSF cutoff.  DC did bounce back with an excellent SAT score, but with an anticipated minimum of 10-12 NMSF in their graduating class, I do worry how this will impact the college admissions process.[/quote]

He's only 99th percentile?!? What a shame! And he showed so much promise, too.[/quote]

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