National Merit Archives - College Initiative Helping families to successfully navigate the college admissions process Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:14:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://collegeinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-logoSQUARE-02-e1683223180849-32x32.png National Merit Archives - College Initiative 32 32 Significantly Lower Scores on October 2019 PSAT – What Does That Mean? https://collegeinitiative.net/2020/03/02/lower-scores-on-october-2019-psat/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:02:09 +0000 https://collegeinitiative.net/?p=1917 I have been waiting for more than a month for a story about this test to hit outside of college counseling circles, but I still haven’t seen it anywhere. I have spoken to my clients that may be affected, but wanted to share this information more widely for all families. There were significantly lower scores...

The post Significantly Lower Scores on October 2019 PSAT – What Does That Mean? appeared first on College Initiative.

]]> Why Is the PSAT Important? https://collegeinitiative.net/2019/09/11/is-the-psat-important/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 06:34:05 +0000 https://collegeinitiative.net/?p=1705 Recently, a friend shared with me that she knew someone who was planning to let their child skip taking the PSAT. It was the student’s junior year and the student already had a good score on the ACT. So, the parent saw no point. Apparently not all schools do a great job of answering the...

The post Why Is the PSAT Important? appeared first on College Initiative.

]]>