<p>@xanthosine: OK, I read the 2011 USABO thread, and it looks like you’re right. Apparently 30-35 people should have received the email.</p>
<p>Hi - just logged into the site where our scores were listed, but now my screen is blank! I can’t even see my semi-final score. Can anyone else view their scores? Or don’t they reveal them? (And why did they delete my other score?) Anyone?</p>
<p>i think every1 has the same situation, don’t worry</p>
<p>Thanks, but I just figured that if they deleted ones’s scores, that it meant one simply didn’t “make the cut” and that one was essentially “deleted from the system/process” at this point. 
Oh, well. – Congratulations to all who made it!</p>
<p>Hmmm… where did you read that 30-35 people receive the email? In previous years, every person I knew who received the email qualified for finals</p>
<p>Can someone please say if you were (or were not?) able to view your semi-final scores on the official CEE Bio Olympiad site? When you log in and go to the page that says student scores, does it at least say “finalist” or something (to those who made it) even if you can’t see your scores?</p>
<p>Also, if the CEE is reading this, I wish you would please notify everyone who took the semifinals, and not just the finalists. Maybe just a quick email saying, “Thank you for participating in the USABO this year. We regret to inform you that your score did not meet our finalists qualifications. Best of luck on all of your future endeavors”. Or some such thing. Surely technology easily allows for a message like this.</p>
<p>scores will be (should be) posted on April 26th, per USABO calendar. Finalists are notified beforehand. It is possible that there will be more notifications on Monday to replace those initial finalists who did not accept.</p>
<p>Mmm… thanks – did you make it crazymomster? If you did, did it say “finalist” on your official login screen? (Or if any other finalists can please say what you see when you login, I’d really like to know). Thanks! :-)</p>
<p>Calm down, man, I’m pretty sure no one can see their scores, like darksigma said. This happened last year too, they just took down open scores in preparation for putting up semifinal ones, I guess.</p>
<p>Also, remember that every year about 2 or 3 people decline to go to finals, so sometimes a second round of “you are being considered” emails are sent out (I think this happened to some people last year). The most probable reason CEE doesn’t send out a “you did not make finals” email is that they don’t even know who their 20 finalists are yet.</p>
<p>Here’s what the 2011 USABO thread said (page 38, post #559):
“Just for clarification based on observation.
~30-35 [or ~20-35] people received an email stating that they were under consideration, barring nightshadequeen’s results.
Then this morning [April 12, 2011] people received confirmations or something along those lines.”
It looks like last year, people were sent emails saying that they were under consideration, and then they received confirmation emails that they were definitely finalists. And the fact that they put the words “under consideration” in underline and in red in my email indicates that it’s not the actual confirmation email.</p>
<p>But, of course, previous finalists like oldguy433 and darksigma should know more about this than me, but this is what it looks like to me.</p>
<p>@lifelearner: It doesn’t show anything on mine either, so stop worrying.</p>
<p>I’m not sure exactly how it works either, but as someone else said before, I don’t know of anyone who received the “under consideration” email and ended up rejected (which leads me to think that the number of people they contact at first is not that much greater than 20). I also know some finalists from last year who had a semifinal score lower than the official cutoff on CEE’s website, which would make most sense, imo, if they sent out a second round of finals invitations but never changed the cutoff from what it was on the original set of 25-30 emails.</p>
<p>Ok, everyone, thanks! And yes, I think it would be quite unusual (I’ll go so far as to say, a bit “cruel”) to tell a small group of people they are “under consideration” only to potentially tell them a few days later that they didn’t make the final cut. I mean, if that were to be the case, why send out this preliminary email at all? Why not just wait the few extra days and just notify the actual finalists??</p>
<p>Well if what oldguy said is true then I hope that a lot of you have prior commitments this summer becuase I got my semifinal test back from my teacher and when I checked my answers I got a total percentage correct of about 60-65, given that Part C was worth 20 points. But, on the other hand, last year, CEE said that Part A was worth 1 point and Part B 2 points but they ended up using some other sort of scoring system, so who knows. At least we’ll all know our scores and the cutoff this upcoming Thursday, just 5 days.</p>
<p>to the best of my knowledge only the top 20 received emails; I’ve talked to a couple of people (previous finalists) and nobody knows anybody who got an email but did not end up a finalist (unless they specifically declined to participate)</p>
<p>Did CEE not give confirmation of receipt to anyone else? I sent mine in today due to not having internet earlier, and I just wanted to see if there was anyone else in the same position?..</p>
<p>I think they’re probably not at work today like us normal people lol. It’s Sunday for heaven’s sake! Give them a little time!</p>
<p>Imperium503: This has also happened to me. And I’m kind of panicking that they won’t have gotten them by tomorrow’s deadline. I certainly hope that this is incorrect – but, at least, I am not alone.</p>
<p>If you guys are still freaking out 
(no worries, i would too)… i got a receipt confirmation</p>
<p>…I still didn’t D:
I sent them in three times…</p>
<p>Xanthosine (or anyone), can you please post what the actual dates of the Biology Olympiad Training camp actually are?</p>