<p>Oh well.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I would have won it too.</p>
<p>There's no way I could get another copy, right?</p>
<p>Have you asked your counselor about this?</p>
<p>My gc gave me the papers today and he’s like, be very careful with these. Don’t get them messed up and remember to have a draft of what you’re going to write before you write it. He also said you only get one application. If you remember your semifinalist ID you may want to call National Merit, but otherwise you’ll join some of the 1000 kids who fail to move on to finalist standing. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter, you get to put national merit semifinalist on the application and no one gets to put finalist because you’re informed of that after you submit apps. I hope the last part made you feel a little better!</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that flippy. Unfortunately, the usual reason for NM Semis not making it to Finalist status is because of mishandling of the paper work, not sending on time and missing the deadline and so forth. They will not give you anymore documents. I guess, part of the competition is to see how careful, organized, etc the student also is.</p>
<p>In any case, I agree with Fred. For the applications, being SEMI is what matters. The Finalist status would have helped you with the scholarships though, or if you get deferred at one of the schools that you want to attend.</p>
<p>Ask your high school to look at this link and see if you can get an extra set: <a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/high_school_forms.php[/url]”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/high_school_forms.php</a>
This is billed as forms for high school counselors, but maybe, just maybe, they have the full set. Good luck!</p>
<p>Have you tried looking for the lost forms really really hard? Unless you threw them away, they are SOMEWHERE, and since they don’t do anyone else any good, it seems unlikely they have been stolen.</p>
<p>Unless you attend a school that gives no merit aid, or an out of state public, the finalist status may well be worth at least $4,000, probably more. Look hard.</p>
<p>Sucess is a do it yourself project! Just call them and ask for a new set of paper to be mailed or faxed to your high school:</p>
<p>National Merit Scholarship Corporation
1560 Sherman Avenue
Suite 200
Evanston, Illinois 60201-4897
Main Telephone: (847) 866-5100
Main Fax: (847) 866-5113</p>
<p>You can get another copy, but the request has to be made directly by your school. Have them contact NMSC and request it for you.</p>
<p>That’s funny!</p>
<p>no chr100 it’s not funny. no kidding. that sucks. go and beg for another app.
FredFredBurger made a good point tho. it doesn’t matter THAT much, since you’re already semi-finalist</p>
<p>If you aren’t responsible enough to keep track of a very important piece of paper, why should you be entitled to be a finalist? There are other people out there who deserve the title better than you unless you have some reasonable excuse for losing the papers.</p>
<p>Everyone makes mistakes chr100. As long as he isn’t known for losing stuff a lot, I don’t think this means he’s undeserving of being a finalist. Please update us flippy on what happens!</p>
<p>It won’t go on your college application…why worry about it? $2,500 is a drop in the bucket for most private colleges.</p>
<p>$2,500 might be a drop in the bucket, but there are also the chance of $2000 per year for four year to up to full ride scholarships that are offered by some schools to NMF but not NMSF.</p>
<p>astonmartin, most students who are NMF and who attend schools that participate in the National Merit program get far more than $2500. At Vanderbilt Univ, NMF status is worth $20,000 over four years, at many other top private universities it is worth $8,000 over 4 years. </p>
<p>And even if a student gets “only 2500 dollars” from the National Merit Corp, that is hardly an irrelevant amount of money.</p>
<p>$2500 for me is like a life time Chinese buffet pass!</p>
<p>dude, i love chinese food! But seriously, ask your guidance counselor (and maybe be more careful in the future). Good Luck.</p>