<p>Have they notified finalists?</p>
<p>I believe so. I was notified as an Ervin finalist (I also applied to Danforth) and I imagine that they called and notified people at the same time.</p>
<p>Right. I'm sure Danforth semi-finalists all have been notified. Thus the long series of posts here confirming that.</p>
<p>Just received Danforth letter dated 2/27, postmarked 2/28. Daughter was not a finalist. Statistics were quoted in the letter - 1440 applicants and 36 finalists.</p>
<p>It's a great honor to be nominated at all. </p>
<p>36 of 1440 means that only 2.5% were named semi-finalists. Long odds.</p>
<p>Much longer odds, in fact, than last year when, according to ST2, "only" 900 kids were nominated.</p>
<p>The 2005 Danforth numbers above seem off, but I don't know for sure. I do know the numbers for 2004 -- my son applied and was not a finalist. The 2004 numbers were even steeper than this year -- according to his letter, 1674 applications, 34 finalists (2.03%). By comparison, the odds for the Woodward Scholarship (Engineering) that he did receive seems positively generous -- 880 applicants, 32 finalists (3.6%)!</p>
<p>Wash-U DOES offer a large number of merit scholarships (at the expense of their FA, of course -- they are "need aware"), but there is tremendous competition for these awards.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>