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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PSAT is useless even worse than SAT. SAT doesn't predict the college performance and produces one dimensional drones. Top colleges can fill its classes with perfect SAT score applicants and still have applicants with perfect SATs left over.

In fact doing well on PSAT/SAT is inconsistent with creativity and leadership ability and high scores on these tests shows the opposite to be true.[/quote]

Let me guess. Your kid was no NMSF? [/quote]

I wouldn't say the PSAT is totally useless, because it's practice for the real thing, but being a NMSF has virtually no bearing on college admissions unless it's backed up by scores on the SAT themselves.  One of my kids was commended, just missing the NMSF, while another came nowhere close.  But when the real thing came along, the loser became the winner by a nearly 200 point margin.  And another who didn't do spectacularly on the PSAT went on the crush the ACT and got admitted to a slew of top colleges.

We learned through experience that the PSAT means very little.

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ACT is so popular with college applicants since it is [b]much easier to get higher score on ACT compared to SAT. [/b]Kids usually take both and end up submitting the ACT scores since it's way easier.[/quote]

This is a very individual thing.  My DC got a 32 composite score on the ACT.  Not bad.  Then DC took the SAT and got a 2360, equivalent to a 35 on the ACT.

Clearly DC is better suited to the SAT.[/quote]

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