What'd you get on your PSATs?

[dcdomain]

1390 back in... 96 or 97... honorable mention for national merit scholar...

 

[SUOrangeman]

I don't remember my PSAT scores (somewhere around 1200 to 1300), but it lead to a National Achievement Scholarship. Because of that scholarship award, the University of Toledo (I coulda been a Rocket! ) offered me an academic full-ride.

So, yes, PSAT is important.

-SUO

 

[DataFly]

I got mine back today:
63 Verbal
77 Math D)
59 Writing

so a total of 150, or 1500 on the SAT.

 

[ltk007]

NICE Datafly! Congrats!

 

[Impact55]

Did you get scores by mail? Hmmm, don't have mine yet

 

[DataFly]

Thanks ltk.

Impact55, they are sent to your school, so check your school's college applications office.

 

1410. Enough to get me a little money for college, woohoo...

 

[Demosthenes]

Verbal: 680
Math: 600
Writing: 62
Total of 1280

I'm very impressed with my scores.. and man o man did I surprise a lot of people. Me.. the slacker who can barely hold onto a rank in the top 25% beat out quite a few of the.. you know.. "smart" kids in school. My score may not be amazing like some of you nerds but I'm satisfied.

Do scores of ~1300, the "good but not great" scores get you anything? Maybe not scholarship money.. but schools taking a specific glance at you, or special materials mailed or something of the sort? I wasn't hoping for a scholarship like some but getting any kind of advantages would be nice..

 

[luv2chill]

<< 63 Verbal
77 Math
59 Writing

so a total of 150, or 1500 on the SAT. >>



DataFly--

How do you get 150 out of that??? When I took the PSAT there wasn't a writing section/score, but does that add into your total somehow? Unless there's some formula for incorporating the writing score, it looks like you got a 140, not a 150.

l2c

 

[S0me1X]

I didn't take the PSAT's, but I took the SAT and SAT II:
Verbal: 750
Math : 800
Total SAT : 1550

SAT2:
Writing: 740 (I didn't finish my essay )
Chemistry: 770
Math I-C: 800
Math II-C: 800
I believe there is not an essay section to PSAT writing, but there is an essay section to SAT II Writing (most colleges don't require SAT II's)

Basically, I studied extra hard for the SAT tests because I screwed up my high school GPA and class ranking.

 

[Linh]

dang some pretty impressive scores from anantech members.

 

[her209]

1550 (negative)

 

[poop]

I don't remember my PSAT, but I got a 1430 on the SAT (like a 760 in math, 670 in verbal). I did score enough to be a National Merit Scholar. This is where is sucks, though. I thought that good scores would get me lots of scholarship money, wrong. I looked stronly at Auburn, Rose-Hulman (their ACT AVERAGE was 32 is 1996), and Virginia Tech, but neither would give me much in the way of scholarships. At any out of state school, the best offer I could get was a 2-3 thousand a semester.

I am not at the University of Louisville (in state) on a full scholarship. It is a good deal, 5 years paid tuition + housing + books. I am very happy with my education, as I already appear to have a job lined up. I will aslo have my master's degree in Computer Engineering/Comp Sci in about 1.5 years now. The problem is that I originally wanted to go to an out of state school.

Lesson learned: Unless you are a minority, female, of lower income, or any combination, you will get very little in scholarships. Just go with what you can get.

 

[Thorn]

1450 on my SAT (back in `89) and a 33 on the ACT. Got a full ride to the University of TN (go Vols!), where I picked up my degree in CS and attended numerous kick-a$$ football games. Woohoo!!

 

[CirekL]

Alpha <<The math section was easy as hell,... >>
And this is the guy who started the &quot;I hate people who brag&quot; thread?

Hehehe... I did around the same area as AndrewR on the PSAT's, didn't get jack squat.
My SATs were almost 200 points higher than PSAT's, so I don't think it was much of an estimator for me... Don't remember the exact numbers on which test I got what. Took the SATs 3 times. Had a nice GPA to fall back on. And it's totally worthless now because in college no one gives a sh^t what your SATs were.

 

[S0me1X]

Sure, colleges don't care about your SATs once you are accepted, but they do care about your SAT scores for admittance. For an example, look at Brown's profile of its class of 2004:

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/profile.html

 

[piku]

LOL! I cant belive that there were actually people who even considered applying with scores in the 400-580 range to Brown.

400-580 TOTAL