<p>@NickFromThe208 Also, here is the link to the other chat. You may be able to find someone from Idaho in there. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/1528270-gates-millennium-scholarship-2013-2014.html”>http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/1528270-gates-millennium-scholarship-2013-2014.html</a></p>
<p>@jessyayala1 What college are you going to?</p>
<p>@NickFromThe208 same here dude. i submitted my letter a couple of days ago but i dont see it in the list. i tried to upload it again but there is some sort of error displayed.</p>
<p>I’m assuming the number to contact them is the one on the finalist site, am I correct?</p>
<p>Lol i’m still in the 6th grade but i can say with honest cerainty and confidence that I WILL Become a gates scholar! (When that comes) Congrats to all ya’ll!! Like previously posted, loving da diversity! :x </p>
<p>Finalist from Reno, NV I will be attending UC Davis with a major in Civil Engineering :)</p>
<p>@jselorio Welcome! Feel free to join us in the other chat as well. The link is below:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/1528270-gates-millennium-scholarship-2013-2014.html”>http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/1528270-gates-millennium-scholarship-2013-2014.html</a></p>
<p>Finalist from Raleigh, NC and I plan to attend Duke University (or possibly UNC-Chapel Hill)</p>
<p>@Ndukwe132 Congrats? What’s your career goal and major?</p>
<p>@rhythmandbible I want to major in Computer Science and go into software engineering. (Also, was the question mark after “congrats” intentional? 
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<p>@Ndukwe132 No, it was NOT intentional Lol…It should have been an exclamation point Haha
I’m considering Duke to, but I want to do Computer Science and Global Health</p>
<p>@Ndukwe132 What’s your ethnicity? </p>
<p>Native American finalist, Eastern Band of Cherokee in NC. Accepted Stanford University, Dartmouth, Wake Forest and Michigan - Will attend Stanford University. 4.9 GPA, completed 10 AP’s, hope to double major Political Science, Native Studies with focus on Public Policy. </p>
<p>Did anyone get a date of notification…all I could get was mid to late April. Wonder what date announcements went out last year. Also, will how much Pell someone qualifies for have an impact? I qualified for Pell but not for very much.</p>
<p>10 more days till’ the “mid April” notifications start coming out! I heard previous gates scholars heard around the 17th or so. </p>
<p>@Sinaj The amount of Pell grant you receive is not very important. They just want to ensure that you’re “poor enough” by verifying that you qualify for the Pell grant. Also, with someone as accomplished as you are, you should be ranked high enough within your ethnic group that you won’t have any problems. I hope you get the Gates Scholarship!</p>
<p>I hope so. Was flown in to Dartmouth in the fall with other high achieving Native students; and there are more of us than one would think. </p>
<p>@Sinaj I believe you. I just wanted to commend you on your accomplishments as they are not average, regardless of ethnicity. </p>
<p>@Sinaj Does either Dartmouth or Stanford have a regional send - off ceremony/reception? If so, are you going? I know I have a couple for Princeton…</p>
<p>Stanford does (although the closest to us is in Atlanta some two hours away). Not sure about Dartmouth as I declined last week and now am not getting their email updates for incoming freshmen. Native students also come in a week earlier to acclimate and “bond”. My brother enjoyed both experiences greatly. </p>