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 confirming score for the class of 2017 was set at a 209 SAT Selection Index (SSI). The SSI is calculated the same way the PSAT SI is calculated. However, it ranges from 60-240 rather than from 48-228 because the SAT extends each section to an 800 point maximum.