<p>@juliaax5 I have rad a lot of the threads and it not only about stats but about the emotion you put in your essays. I think we all have a good chance.</p>
<p>@varroyo79 from last years thread no one was notified until around the 8th or the 9th of march and the majority was by mail not really e-mail. </p>
<p>@GMSTXLglGrdn welcome to the thread I hope it gets more exciting in here though. There were usually a lot of people commenting around this time last year. </p>
<p>@Krazed2014 Thanks for the welcome and the info you shared w/ varroyo79. So now, I think I can rest my horses for another 5-6 days. </p>
<p>On a separate note, I have to say, looking at the beginning of this thread, it didn’t appear as though it wasn’t going to start off on the happiest of notes. But luckily, the negativity quickly turned around. I really do hope jasosa has found peace by now. I know this scholarship is a long shot for us and probably others out here too, but regardless of whether we get it or not, I’m just glad it exists. I mean, the opportunities it provides to 1000 less fortunate folks across this nation each year is one of the best instruments for leveling a playing field I’ve seen in a while… Ok, ok, so it doesn’t completely level the playing field, but it sure is better than nothing. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, if this doesn’t happen for us, we’ve got a back up. The kid’ll get a college education, although it may not be at the most preferred school. And he may have to commute from home as opposed to getting the full fledged experience of freshman dorm life, but at the end of the day, so long as the school is accredited (which it is), a degree is a degree. Granted, some schools have better Career Centers and attract more or certain corporations better than others, but then, all that means is, our Guardian child is going to have to want it, that much more to make his way into the industry of his choice. Heck, if anybody’s got enough perseverance to make it through 8 (long) thought out essays, surely, one (more) rejection isn’t all that it takes to throw a person off course, right??? </p>
<p>Well, Krazed2014, not trying to think negative, but as the modified cliche goes: …just hoping for the best, and attempting to make a back up plan for the worse. Good Luck to you and everyone else here!!! 
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<p>Hey everyone, keep breathing! I just checked my email from last year- looks like my students were notified on March 7- although a few people last year got their notitifcations as early as March 6! If you don’t get yours this early, RELAX. I think the different branches send them out in waves. Last year the Asian branch was first =) </p>
<p>I am excited and nervous like everyone else here. I’ve never poured so much time and effort into any college app, scholarship app, school project or any other single project in my life as I did for the GMS. I worked on the application and essays for 3 straight months, weekends and all. Winter holiday break was a blur of essays and having my mother and a few mentors tweak and edit them. I’ve already been accepted into my top choice for college and just praying on this scholarship or others to figure out how to fund my dreams. Good luck to everyone!!!</p>
<p>@ GMSTXLglGrdn, that’s exactly the approach we took last year. We had a poster next to where our son did homework with the numbers (cost of college) for all the schools he was interested in attending. We told him if he got the scholarship he could go to his top pick, if he didn’t he could go up the road to a local state university. I work in HR so I told him that at the end of the day I don’t care what color paper the degree is conferred on. All I care is that it states DEGREE CONFERRED and has a date attached. Good luck to all the students waiting anxiously for the preliminary results.</p>
<p>I’m so nervous. I basically put my life into those essays, and every hour I think about this scholarship. I wish everyone the best! And I think we all have put countless hours into this scholarship, and the sad part is not all of us will get it… Either way, everyone who applied for this life-changing scholarship is a leader, and don’t let it determine whether you go to your dream college or not. :)</p>
<p>@sonnalei You know, being the analytical person I can be, I looked at the 2013 calendar for the month of March. If you say that last year, people generally started hearing as soon as March 6th, but most ‘started’ hearing back on March 7th, that would make it a Wednesday and Thursday respectively. So in the spirit of adding more fuel to the Anxious fire, I thought I’d point out that same Wednesday/Thursday for this year would be as early as March 5th / 6th. Hmm… and now it’s getting toward the last part of the 3rd… hmmm…</p>
<p>I’m leaning towards the 7th-9th for when we are going to hear back I just think that is too soon. Especially from what I have read from the past threads from '09 to '13. I actually did go through each thread. </p>
<p>Does anyone know if it’s through mail or email? I keep seeing different things…</p>
<p>@cfletch i think it’s both from what i’ve read</p>
<p>Im new to this whole CC thing. I thought it would be prudent to make an account and acquire information from other applicants! : ) </p>
<p>I think it is whatever they feel because at my school last year we had 8 people who applied and all of them heard by mail first</p>
<p>@GabrielM Hi</p>
<p>Hey! Does anyone know the breakdown of ethnic groups and how many scholarships each one receives? For example: African American 100 Hispanic 100 Asian 120.</p>
<p>This is from the 2011-2013 year, but I think that it is just 250 per group.
350 Black
350 Hispanic
150 Native, Pacific Islander
150 asian
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/1445137-gates-millenium-scholarship-official-thread-2013-p11.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/1445137-gates-millenium-scholarship-official-thread-2013-p11.html</a></p>
<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Makes me feel a lot more confident (I’m hispanic)</p>
<p>Does anyone know the pool of applicants for each race? Sorry. Im just really nervous. </p>
<p>No but from 2012 there about 35000 who applied. There is a CC Gates link were they discuss about that. But apparently each year a lot more people apply. </p>
<p>A Hispanic male has received a notification that he was a finalist today! He is from Saipan.</p>
<p>Someone on my facebook page just received notification too, Time to get nervous and cross fingers!</p>