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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys are hilarious lol

Congrats to everyone that became a Semifinalist or is the parent or a relation or whatever of a Semifinalist :D

if you guys want to see stuff about this thing changed, then I'm guessing you guys should do more than bicker online (you've probably already done something more, but I didn't see anyone post about taking more action in the 22 pages of this thread) :P

Unless/until this thing changes, y'all should enjoy what you got and take advantage of it if you need to!

@ person who says it's mandatory:

At my school, it's semi-mandatory for sophomores (and freshmen I hear, but not when I was one; we took some ACT explore thing that I don't even remember), and it's free for them, but they don't qualify for the competition of course.
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Juniors can choose to take the PSAT if they want; they need to pay the fee themselves.
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Re: recognition

It really sucks that some schools are apparently crap at notifying their semifinalists. My school honors our semifinalists; nothing flashy or overbearing, and if you don't want to know, then you won't know, but there are spots that easily accessible to the rest of the school if they want to know who our semifinalists are. And the school counseling ladies email the semifinalists early in September to let us know that we're semifinalists and that we've got stuff to do if we want to become finalists :D which is awesome, because the person in my house that takes care of the mail is a little too hasty in throwing things out...[/quote]seems out of whack, Junior year is when t counts.... :? [/quote]
Yeah, it does :( I think the idea is that the school lets us get a feel for the PSAT before it counts, and then we decide whether we want to take it during junior year. They probably don't want to spend money on students that don't want to take the PSAT. (I think people can get reduced or waived fees if they qualify for it, but I'm not sure. If they can, then it's not too bad at least.)[/quote]

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