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[quote=Anonymous]Gals, don't you get that the PSAT is pretty much meaningless - it's practice for the SAT. And that PSAT 10 is just practice for the practice?

If the reason you care is that you are counting on automatic scholarships to Bama or Ole Miss as a semi-finalist, remember that there is only a 1% chance of success (in other words, a 99% failure rate). There are lots of (equally good) colleges that will provide as much aid for students that are not semifinalists but have nearly identical scores. If your child's scores are in the top 5%, there is a decent chance with measurement error and performance variability alone that they might actually be in the top 1%. But its a matter of chance. It doesn't mean they are any more special or less awesome than anyone else in that top tier.

FWIW, the new selection index double weights the reading and writing scores over math. So a stronger verbal student with the same overall score as a student with stronger math will have a high selection index. It seems intended to give the non-STEM students an advantage.[/quote]

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