<p>only person @ my school of 2000 ppl</p>
<p>how do you know that you're the only person at your school that applied? nobody knows that i applied from my school, and i'm sure that there are plenty of people from my school of 2000 who i don't know applied. especially since its just an online thing...</p>
<p>i go to a k-12 school... over 2/3 of the kids could not compete. our teachers also gave it to us as an extra credit assignment. no one else turned it in.</p>
<p>My english teacher made it a mandatory assignment so that's at least 100 applicants from my school, not counting the people who participated out of whimsy.</p>
<p>The question isn't how many entries Campbells received, but how many entries are GOOD. I'm sure they got loads and loads of horrible essays.
I wonder what they were looking for in the essays?--I mean certain topics or what?</p>
<p>I believe that the contest site had an example of a good essay, but I don't know if it's still there. Personally, I thought it was not all that great and definitely not how I write my essays, so I probably won't get anything.</p>
<p>haha what if none of us great cc-ers didnt get semifinalist?? what if all the semifinalists already heard, and here we are, wondering when theyre supposed to get notified...</p>
<p>Does anyone know if you are notified if you're not a semifinalist? That would be terrible if people kept on searching for a notification and they never get one.</p>
<p>well probably not.. it seems like MANY people applied, and it would be pretty difficult to notify everyone. maybe the winners will be on the website?</p>
<p>Some of this stuff has already been mentioned but I just wanted to have the quotes here for easy reference.</p>
<p>"3. JUDGING: ...winners will be notified by mail on or about 12/30/04 (Semi-finalists), 1/17/05 (Finalist and Grand Prize)."</p>
<p>That doesn't look too promising. =( Or maybe it is really promising...uh yeah.</p>
<p>"7. WINNERS: For a list of the names of winners, available after February 18, 2005, send a separate, self-addressed, stamped, (#10) envelope by 9/1/05 to: Contest Winners, American Dreams Contest Administrator, Space # 524, 557 Broadway, NY, NY 10012 ."</p>
<p>hmm well i guess i didn't get anything then.. oh well. how are finalists supposed to know by today anyways... NO MAIL. hmmm</p>
<p>On the contest site it says winners will be notified in Jan. Does anyone still have the email they sent you saying they'd received your application? If so, you could email them back and ask exactly when they're notifying. I'd hate for everyone to still be wondering if they've already notified the winners.</p>
<p>hmmmm........ i never got an email....... ugh</p>
<p>the confirmation e-mail i got from Campbell's back in December says:
"Semi-finalists will be announced in January 2005, and our finalists and grand prize winner will be notified in February 2005."<br>
it seems like there's a lot of conflicting information about winner notification.. :-/</p>
<p>Is anyone going to e-mail them, like over30 suggested? The wait is horrible!</p>
<p>OK, I'm totally positive I was the only 1, I know absolutely everyone who comes in and out of the school, students, staff, and visitors. Second, didn't I hear something about hearing back by the 17? I dunno, but I would hope not, that's today and I haven't heard anything or seen anything on the site. </p>
<p>I hear that the results will be on American Dreams next week, so we'll hopefully find out soon enough (or too soon!)</p>
<p>whens american dreams? ive never watched that show before, and im not going to just to hear the results! seriously what are the chances that none of us cc-ers got anything??</p>
<p>American Dreams is on Sunday's, I don't really know what time, I just watch it. I would think that since CCers are generally very dedicated to this sort of thing that at least 1 of us would make the semi's.</p>
<p>I have been reading you guys for the last few days on this topic and have to admit, I cant hardly stand the wait either. I am actually using my sons sign in -- but I thought I owed it to all (for staring!) what I have founf out. I called Campbells and spoke to someone there. They said they were making their decisions on Jan 17 (MLK Day?) - and that they were then going to mail out letters. They said the winners would be notified by mail sometime this week! Say your prayers and keep your fingers crossed! I know we are!</p>
<p>thanks for the info, cody! I'd just about resigned myself to not knowing.. it's good to know we'll find out for sure this week.</p>