@germaniscool Congrats and try to stay positive! And @samakaziz I’m kind of dying lol
I wish they’d just tell us
@Northstar16 I’m dying too. And my school course selection was due today and I don’t know if I’m gonna be here next year at all ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@samakaziz at my school it’s called program planning and I don’t want to hand it in because I’m waiting for the results.
@Yaismin I felt the same! Man I wish they’d hurry up already
@samakaziz What region are you in?
@samakaziz I feel your pain. When we did our course selection I wanted to wait until they announce the finalists to hand it in, but the due date was two weeks ago.
@germaniscool I’m in the FLAG region in SoCal
@abigailwatson I wanted to wait too, but the deadline was today. I was told that we’d get the response from CBYX between the 10-20th of this month but then they sent an email saying there was gonna be a delay in the announcement because of some management changes in the Dep. of State 
@samakaziz I am waiting as well and I am in flag! I keep checking my phone literally every 5 minutes and refreshing my email I’m so anxious I hope they send it soon
@liza22 ahh I hope we both make it! I’ve been doing the same all weekend. What part of the flag region are you from?
@samakaziz I am from Texas! and you?
@liza22 California 
I really hope everyone who is still waiting to here back makes it! Personally, I have absolutely no idea what to expect, but one can only hope for the best. I’m a wimp so I know I’m going to cry either way XD
Hi guys, I’m from the ASSE region and had my interview on February 25th in Longview, Washington. I know I’m joining this chat late, but I just found out that I’m a finalist today, and I’m so excited! Congrats to everyone else who found out that they’re finalists, and to the alternates!
@cnm2019 congrats!!!
Congratulations! I think we might have been at the same interview! I am an alternate! @cnm2019
I asked the person that has been updating us from FLAG if they were announcing the finalists today and he said that they will in a few more days once they get approval from the department of state. I guess I had read the email wrong and got confused thinking that it was supposed to be today, the 20th, but today was actually the day they were originally going to announce it. I’m glad he replied so now we all know that they will announce it in a few more days. No specific date but hopefully this week!
@germaniscool I’m an alternate too. I hope we’ll both get to go!
Thanks, @germaniscool, congrats on becoming an alternate, and congrats to you too @gdb5253 I hope that you both get the scholarship. At the interview, I was the one who went first for the individual interview, so I stuck around to talk to the other applicants for pretty much the entire morning until the group interview. Everyone seemed really impressive.