Wow.
@Winky1 @burghdad The Jefferson, like the Morehead-Cain at UNC, are private foundation scholarships that are not formally affiliated with the universities and admission is a completely separate process. So, it is possible, and has happened, that a scholarship candidate or even recipient (do not know about Jefferson, but M-C does not require a scholarship applicant apply to the school early action) is denied admission. These both being state schools, it is surely an OOS student that this would happen to. The Vandy scholarships, on the other hand, are awarded by the university, so it seems unlikely to me that a chosen finalist would not be offered admission unless perhaps the departments operate blind of each other.
The only rough part is having to write an additional essay without a guarantee of getting into the school
“I know for a fact it happens at UVA with the Jefferson scholarship. Kids are finalist and get rejected in EA.”
That can’t technically happen. The interviews for the Jefferson Scholarship don’t start until January and even a bit beyond. One would not know they are a finalist until after the EA decision which comes out before January 31st, but usually somewhere near 24th/25th. I do not believe they make it out of the their region until AFTER the EA decisions - and becoming a finalist usually means notification at the earliest the first week of February or a bit later. And my understanding is that if you are invited to Finalist weekend (in March), you are offered admission to UVA - although they are two separate processes.
so i’m guessing from the silence that we have no news? 
this wait is reallllyyyy getting to me haha
@skipper99 Nothing on my end
Happy Hump Day! :-h
i’m reallllllyyy really hoping it’s today afternoon, or at least that we find out soon :-/
If decision was coming today, what time est?
last year my S received around 2:15 PM Pacific on 8th.
ok, so around 5ish eastern standard time. thank you
Logistically and objectively, we could hear today, tomorrow, or Friday. Also would not have been crazy to have heard on March 5th or 6th either.
Nothing in my email or portal at 4:00.
Looks like it wont be today. . .
Just received an email notifying me that I received the Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship!
Way to go @Gobassin!
Anyone else heard anything?
Anyone else^^^Do they usually send emails en masse? if so, if we have’t gotten it, does it mean we are not recipients?
we have not heard anything either
Congratulations GaBassin! Other than the email you received, would you be able to tell us if your app. portal looks any different?