@srk2017 , thank you for your kind words. Best of luck to S in his STEM pursuits.
I am guessing that all the finalists and eventual winners will be at the summit too, after all if you are finalist, you are already a semifinalist, and so on.
I am a semifinalist as well! Can’t wait to meet you all in DC:-)
I’m a semifinalist (top 2%). While I’m a bit disappointed I didn’t get the scholarship, I’m frankly a bit surprised (and proud!) I got this far, since I found out about the Coolidge only two or three days before the application was due. And an all-expenses-paid conference in Washington is a pretty darn nice consolation prize 
. See you all there!
I’m a semifinalist! AYYYYYEEEEE! I’m a bit disappointed as well, but it’s okay. See you in DC 
Are finalists still in the dark? Who STILL hasn’t gotten an email?
@saadzmirza - I’m sure finalists have been told by now; they probably just don’t frequent CC. Pretty remarkable that half a dozen or so on this thread have made it to the semifinalist round.
For those of you wondering about finalist status, I have a friend who received a notification recently. I don’t know much about the details but I thought you guys would like to know especially since no one’s heard anything yet (from previous posts on this thread) I’m really happy for her and I really think she deserves it. Good luck and congrats to anyone who made semi-finalist! :))
Can any of the finalists or semifinalist post their stats and also ECs esp related policy, S&D, community service etc… It will give an idea for next year applicants.
@srk2017 Why don’t you make a template?
@ambitiousgeek I am very curious to see her stats.
@ambitiousgeek - Let us know how she does!
@LoveTheBard sure! She’s in vermont as we speak
Has anyone heard anything else about Semifinalist Weekend in August?
No - other than registering.
Has anyone heard about any of the finalists?
May has come and gone (or has almost gone), so any scholarship winners out there? @ambitiousgeek - Did your friend get it?
Looks like there were three winners - not 2 as they had advertised…very interesting!
Yes, I guess they couldn’t limit to 2
Not so happy about Coolidge’s “America is for Americans” rhetoric from 1924. Sounds eerily like the equivalent of the 2016 Trump “Make America Great Again” slogan. Not applying.
@Beuller - that’s probably a sound decision. My daughter applied last year even though she felt the same as you. She struggled to write the essays because it was hard to reconcile the prompts with her beliefs. I’m sure it showed.
@Bueller - Thankfully we hadn’t seen the 1924 “American for Americans” when my daughter applied last year. She had to pick a quote from a Coolidge speech (one he had given in to the Massachusetts Senate) which was mostly extolling the virtues of laissez-faire capitalism (the quote, not her essay!!). She ended up finding one line in the speech referring to something about equal rights and doing a riff on that (FWIW, he supported the suffragist movement at one time, so at least there’s that…).
In any event, my daughter ended up becoming a semifinalist and was invited to an all-expense-paid weekend in D.C. as a consolation prize of sorts. It turned out to be one of the least diverse gatherings of people she had ever seen. After the conference, she wrote the Coolidge Foundation a long letter in which she thanked them for their generosity and consideration, but expressed her dismay at the lack of diversity she encountered, and gave them suggestions about how they might become more inclusive in the future. Whether or not it would will any impact remains to be seen.
That said, I think it’s possible to be true to your own beliefs while graciously accepting a full-ride scholarship with no strings attached!