Does anyone know when Belk Scholarship semifinalist information will be released?
I think they will do phone interviews in mid-February. Not positive about that, though.
We just called. They said kids notified next week. I don’t know if they notify everyone or just the semifinalists. I’d love to know that if someone out there knows.
Kids from last year’s posts indicated they received either an email of congratulations or regret.
@homerdog— did they say the notification would be by email? Did they specify which day next week (I assume Friday but maybe not?). Thanks in advance for sharing your info.
@homerdog Thanks for sharing that info! Good to know that notifications will be next week!
Just “next week”. That’s all I’ve got! @momcatof4, I’ve been searching threads and I can’t find anything that says the semifinalist and the others all found out on the same day.
My D16’s friend who is a junior at Davidson and made it to the final round shared that Belk semifinalists are notified first and asked not to share the good news for several days until the students who didn’t advance are notified. All the semifinalists were notified 2/9/16 and told to wait until 2/13/16 to share:
“And a second important note. As we contact you, we are also contacting those many talented candidates who have not been selected as Belk semifinalists. To insure they get this information from us and not by word of mouth, we ask your promise not to share this good news with anyone outside your household until Saturday, February 13th.”
@scholardad I was wondering if that made more sense because what if they send decisions all at the same time and then some of the chosen semifinalists turn it down for some reason? Maybe they would go back to their list and offer the spot to a different candidate. Nice sleuthing and thanks for getting that wording from your daughter’s friend!
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There is someone who posted in a 2017 thread that kids all found out at once. She doesn’t give any details, though, so who knows. We will all know something soon! See you all back here with decisions hopefully “next week”!
@homerdog LOL! I only got the info quickly because my D and her friend were having dinner together right when I texted to ask and her friend just pulled up the old email on her phone and forwarded. 
@scholardad thank you!! It seemed very strange that there were no posts of “Semifinalist!!”, only posts from those that didn’t go on to the next round. Exciting days ahead!
We are waiting to hear too. From my research and from an earlier post today, it appears that the dates that the semi-finalists were notified were on Wednesdays. In 2016, it was Feb. 9 - a Wednesday- and in 2011, it was Feb. 2 - also a Wednesday. Fingers crossed for good news next week’s Wednesday, Feb. 6th!
If we advance to the next round (or if we don’t), do we receive official notification of our decision (acceptance/waitlist/rejection) early, if we applied regular decision?
@apmaster10 - if you advance to the next round, it means you are one of ~60 semifinalists. Odds are good that you will be offered admission. If you don’t make it to semi-final status, then you just have to wait for the regular deadline to find out if Davidson will offer admission or not. Not sure about that, though. That’s just what I’ve gleaned from other posts.
Yes, if you aren’t invited to the semifinal round as one of the 60, you don’t find out until the RD decision day in late March.(My D16 was a Belk nominee from her school that didn’t advance). There are 1000+ nominees and they can’t accept them all.
@LakeAlto @scholardad Thank you. I was wondering because I was a semifinalist for the Park Scholarship (full ride to NC State) and they gave me official notice of my acceptance two days after semifinalist notification in Mid-December, almost a month and a half before most Early Action applicants are notified. The same thing happened with the other semifinalist from my school.
My D did not progress with the Belk, but she did get her decision before the official day via email because she was offered a music scholarship.
So it is confirmed it is sent out in an email and not a letter? Hopefully on Wed. if not this week?
I was told the Belk Scholarship notifications will be sent via e-mail by the end of this week. And student will hear either a yes or no so you will hear something if nominated and applied, which is very nice to know.