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 cutoff is still defined as the top Â½% per state, meaning the cutoff will vary from state to state. The old PSAT was scored from 60 to 240. The new PSAT Index Selection Score is scored from 48 to 228, representing a shift of 12 points from the previous scale.