<p>I received the exact same message. Perhaps the only people to receive notification thus far are UCLA students?</p>
<p>I’m guessing that everybody else has either been rejected or moved up in the decisions process (hence “Your application did qualify for further consideration.”).</p>
<p>EDIT:
I’ve just given them a call and the answer was that they haven’t finished reviewing all applications. However, decisions are granted on a rolling basis and they will notify you if you’ve been chosen as a semifinalist in the next few weeks.</p>
<p>Dang. I had the same message just now and had gotten my hopes up a bit, lol. Oh well.</p>
<p>My DD has an interview next month. She is hoping to Yale.</p>
<p>Lol she is going to Yale this fall…darn autocorrect.</p>
<p>@ginabeena I am from Texas as well and I received the same message </p>
<p>@NewHavenCTmom are they flying her out or doing a phone interview </p>
<p>No, we live in CT. We are catching the train.</p>
<p>The interview is in NYC</p>
<p>I am from New Mexico and I got that email today too. I’m glad I found this page because I wasn’t sure if I had made the interview selection or not. Hopefully I get a call soon!!</p>
<p>My son received the same e-mail.</p>
<p>Did any of you apply for the Ron Brown Scholarship?</p>
<p>@NewHavenCTmom I did the Ron Brown Havent heard anything but I didnt do it to the best of my ability it was very last minute. </p>
<p>My daughter just received email that her app has made to next phase which is review for interview but I’m wondering why some have received interviews already. I know interviews are held may 1 thru May 30 so I’m hoping for an interview. @NewHavenCTmom - what date is interview?</p>
<p>Her interview is May 17</p>
<p>@Aggies18,</p>
<p>DD applied and was selected as a semifinalist, however, in that next round, they required another essay. I knew as she sent it off that the essay topic was all wrong. But DD didn’t want to listen. She sent it anyway. Lo and behold she wasn’t selected but was selected as a Ron Brown Captain. They are mentored and given other internship opportunities etc. No $$$ though.</p>
<p>@newhavenctmom This scholarship and Ron Brown are vague about the financial need aspect. Can you give me your impression of the “need not apply” income cut off?</p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything yet!?? Specifically people that got the email that said “Please be advised that all qualified applications that met minimal eligibility requirements are being reviewed by the Regional Scholar Advisory Committees. Your application did qualify for further consideration. All applicants will be notified of their application status by the end of May 2014.” I’m really curious</p>
<p>@ohwoahyay I haven’t heard anything either</p>
<p>Hi, </p>
<p>Sorry I haven’t been back to this thread in awhile! DD had her interview on 5/17 at the Varick Street headquarters of The Jackie Robinson Foundation in NYC. There were other applicants there interviewing. Of Hispanic, middle eastern and African American descent. </p>
<p>She will find out their decision by mid June.</p>
<p>@planner03 what I have found is this, if they are requesting tax returns/financial info, then scholarships are need based. </p>
<p>I hope this helps.</p>
<p>As an aside, I read an article and heard an NPR story about a young man by the name of Leonard Galmon, feel free to Google him. He won one of the 26 Ron Brown Scholarships, which DD did not. So proud of him & happy to know that he won the scholarship! He is very deserving! He is headed to Yale & will be a classmate of my DD. </p>
<p>Since I got the email that said I qualified for further consideration but haven’t been contacted since for an interview, I’m not expecting that I got it. </p>