States with the highest numbers of paper checks include California, New York, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. There may be a little wiggle room, but Social Security would like people to willingly give up those paper checks.
Remember that the new PSAT is scored between 320 and 1520, which is a composite of the Math section and the Reading and Writing sections together. To score in the 70th percentile or above, you want to aim for at least a 490 in Reading and Writing and a 500 in Math (or a composite of 990).
The new SAT, on the other hand, will have a range of 200 to 800 for each section and a range of 400 to 1600 for your composite score. Your PSAT scores help predict your SAT scores, but the scale is shifted slightly lower to account for the fact that the PSAT is an easier test than the SAT.