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Anonymous wrote:Any guesses on the NMSQ score in VA? 207?

My guess is 212.

You are not even close.

Qualifying Scores for the Class of 2016 National Merit Semifinalists:

Alabama 209
Alaska 206
Arizona 215
Arkansas 204

California 223
Colorado 215
Connecticut 220

Delaware 216
District of Columbia 225
Florida 214
Georgia 218
Hawaii 214

Idaho 208
Illinois 215
Indiana 213
Iowa 208
Kansas 213
Kentucky 210

Louisiana 211
Maine 211
Maryland 222
Massachusetts 223
Michigan 210
Minnesota 214
Mississippi 209
Missouri 209
Montana 204

Nebraska 209
Nevada 211
New Hampshire 213
New Jersey 225
New Mexico 208
New York 219
North Carolina 215
North Dakota 202

Ohio 215
Oklahoma 208
Oregon 215
Pennsylvania 217
Rhode Island 212
South Carolina 211
South Dakota 202

Tennessee 212
Texas 220
Utah 206
Vermont 214
Virginia 222
Washington 219
West Virginia 202
Wisconsin 208
Wyoming 202

Commended 202
International 225
U.S. Territories 202

Anonymous wrote:10th grader's grades are awful - really bad - but he shocked us and scored in 99th%ile on PSAT. Maybe he has a shot at college now? How much does a great score count if the grades suck?

I was a 3.0 kid in HS with 99%+ SAT scores. I didn't get into any good schools and almost flunked out of the mediocre school I did get into. I managed to turn it around when I got into a major I liked (close to 4.0 for last couple of years in undergrad) and got good grades in a very good graduate school (had excellent GRE scores). High SAT scores and low grades usually means very smart but unmotivated, and schools generally don't like that.

Anonymous wrote:Any guesses on the NMSQ score in VA? 207?

My guess is 212.

Anonymous wrote:Any guesses on the NMSQ score in VA? 207?

The scores are different than in the past. Previously, you got 3 scores, each out of 80 so a high score is 240. The NSMQ scores were 3 digit numbers that started with 2.

Now there are 2 scores, each out of 720. I don't know what the qualifying score is, but it's almost certainly a 4 digit number starting with 1.

Any guesses on the NMSQ score in VA? 207?

Anonymous wrote:10th grader's grades are awful - really bad - but he shocked us and scored in 99th%ile on PSAT. Maybe he has a shot at college now? How much does a great score count if the grades suck?

How can a beginning of the year 10th grader have all of the courses under his belt to score that high? Does he get terrible grades in really advanced classes?

Don't get me wrong, I think that is truly wonderful! If he wasn't taking a pretty heavy course load in middle school and 9th grade, he must be studying/playing with numbers/reading literature on his own.

10th grader's grades are awful - really bad - but he shocked us and scored in 99th%ile on PSAT. Maybe he has a shot at college now? How much does a great score count if the grades suck?

Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the relative ignorance, but just wondering how a 1300 PSAT/NMSQT is for a 9th grader who did no test prep at all. So that's roughly equivalant to a 1380 on the real SAT? Is that a score for a 9th grader that, if kept on track or improved a bit over the next 2 years, could perhaps contribute towards getting in to an excellent school? (I'm thinking UW Madison, Amherst, Smith, but not ivy league).

Thanks for the input. I promise to become better informed over the next few years.

I don't think that's how it works (though it would require someone with a better math SAT score than I to explain why). The top PSAT score is adjusted down to 1520 to account for the PSAT being slightly easier than the real SAT. In other words, a perfect PSAT score of 1520 should translate to a slightly below perfect score of 1520 on the SAT.

DDs scores did not initially show. She entered additional info into her account (she had not included home address, for ex), closed program, reopened and it was there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the relative ignorance, but just wondering how a 1300 PSAT/NMSQT is for a 9th grader who did no test prep at all. So that's roughly equivalant to a 1380 on the real SAT? Is that a score for a 9th grader that, if kept on track or improved a bit over the next 2 years, could perhaps contribute towards getting in to an excellent school? (I'm thinking UW Madison, Amherst, Smith, but not ivy league).

Thanks for the input. I promise to become better informed over the next few years.

That's a pretty darned good score for a beginning of the year 9th grader. I assume your DC has had Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2, Chemisty already?

Is in alg II now. Thanks, I am pleased and surprised.

Anonymous wrote:Not there. So frustrating!

Maybe you can ask the guidance counselor at the school for help.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the relative ignorance, but just wondering how a 1300 PSAT/NMSQT is for a 9th grader who did no test prep at all. So that's roughly equivalant to a 1380 on the real SAT? Is that a score for a 9th grader that, if kept on track or improved a bit over the next 2 years, could perhaps contribute towards getting in to an excellent school? (I'm thinking UW Madison, Amherst, Smith, but not ivy league).

Thanks for the input. I promise to become better informed over the next few years.

That's a pretty darned good score for a beginning of the year 9th grader. I assume your DC has had Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2, Chemisty already?

Sorry for the relative ignorance, but just wondering how a 1300 PSAT/NMSQT is for a 9th grader who did no test prep at all. So that's roughly equivalant to a 1380 on the real SAT? Is that a score for a 9th grader that, if kept on track or improved a bit over the next 2 years, could perhaps contribute towards getting in to an excellent school? (I'm thinking UW Madison, Amherst, Smith, but not ivy league).

Thanks for the input. I promise to become better informed over the next few years.

Anonymous wrote:Not there. So frustrating!

You must be doing something wrong.

Not there. So frustrating!