So if I haven’t heard anything so far, it means I can’t get distinction?
Thank you @fatherof2boys, and congrats to your son as well. I will make sure she checks her mail!
@LovePeanutButter yeah that’s correct. You can still hear about Prominence/Excellence though.
The “by January 29” bit is starting to worry me… that means today! I hope they tell me if I’m not being considered for Distinction so I can quit dreaming 
Good luck @freezycool! Let us know.
@freezycool my son is the same boat as you; however, I interpret “by January 29” in the Prominence email to mean that the notification can come as late as tomorrow and I’ve been operating under the assumption that Friday is the day the notifications will be sent out. Good luck to you and whoever else is awaiting Distinction notification.
@fatherof2boys oooh you must be right! This nervousness has me confused.
@2muchquan thanks!
@fatherof2boys oooh you must be right! This nervousness has me confused.
@2muchquan thanks!
I know in last year’s thread the students were supposed to be notified on 1/30(based on their copy and pasting of emails) but did not get the notification until 1/31 which was a Saturday. I’m really nervous!
@Chopinspiano, that additional bit of info is going to spoil my Saturday if my son dose not hear back, (one way or the other), tomorrow as I’ll constantly be bugging him on Saturday about if he’s received the email. 
So got accepted on Nov 20th, received a packet in the mail stating, you will hear on merit aid, honors/scholars, scholarships in 12 weeks from the date of acceptance, which puts me to Feb 12th to be exact.
I have heard back on scholars. But none on Merit Aid or Morrill (which is a bit frustrating). However ODI says Morrill will go out until end of March. So does that mean that Morrill’s timeline trumps the 12 weeks. I am confused ??
@dreamed That’s correct! The Morrill deadline trumps the merit deadline.
Maybe I’m missing something? I don’t understand how ODI can have a 1/29 decision date for Distiction interview selections.
My son was just accepted EA about a week ago & did apply for the Morrill Scholarship also. It was our understanding that you must be accepted to the university before they would then forward your file to ODI, Honors/Scholars, merit scholarship, etc for consideration. He just 3-4 days ago received notification of Honors selection.
In reading through a few different posts as well as hearing from local students here, it seems they haven’t even finished with all of the EA decisions yet either.
It doesn’t seem logical whatsoever to make final decisions on Distiction level interview selections when ODI hasn’t even had adequate time to process all of the applications for the scholarship yet.
What am I missing here?
Hi! I realize that this must feel so frustrating. In past years, I’ve seen distinction interviews happen as late as March, so I wouldn’t be surprised if your son was included in another waves of acceptances and interviews. It seems that many Morrill applicants, some accepted considerably earlier than others, have yet to hear back as well.
Sorry about OSU’s delay :(! I hope they pick up speed.
Thank you @freezycool for the words of encouragement, but we’re more on the very confused side of things than frustrated at this point, tbh.
Like everything else in life, clear and consistent communication would remedy so much.
@jumbletumbles Your confusion is definitely justified and valid! Especially for a bigger school you’d think they’d have relatively efficient notifications, or at least some sort of timetable to go off of. I don’t think any of us expect admissions to ever be stress free, but these things add up to too much. 
Anyone gotten a Distinction interview notification yet?
Interview notifications usually go out a few days after a person gets an email that they’re being considered for Distinction.
So I just checked with my college counselor and he confirmed that today is not a deadline for Distinction
@Chopinspiano is there a separate email that notifies you of that? the email that told me I got excellence said I was being considered for distinction and that I’d be notified today whether I got an interview or not - is it that email, or a different one?