<p>Did anyone try contacting the National Merit Corporation for more details?</p>
<p>Got a rejection letter too, but my principal is actually sending a letter of appeal... I didn't ask her to or anything, she just is! o.O</p>
<p>FWIW, 3.9 GPA, 220 PSAT, 2140 SAT.</p>
<p>wow, those stats are soo good poet!
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I want an appeal too... lol, ya, right.</p>
<p>3.9 weighted.... my school has a weird, weird system. our highest is like a 4.2. weighted.</p>
<p>oh, if that's you weighted, then i got to reconsider. my weighted gpa is 3.97</p>
<p>I think I heard somewhere that your SAT has to correspond to the minimum PSAT required to be a semifinalist in your state in order to become a finalist. That might explain why some of you didn't progress.</p>
<p>OK, all of this is starting to freak me out. </p>
<p>I got a 228 on the PSAT, and a 2210 on the May SAT. I retook it in October and got a 2290, but I had already sent the score report to NMSC at that point and I figured the May one was good enough. My GPA is 3.77 UW and 4.18 W, but all of my B's are in English and Math and my EC's and essay aren't that great. </p>
<p>Actually, I'm the oddball out of all of the SF's at my school, the other 5 all have a 4.0 UW. Do they look at finalist candidates in the context of their schools like some colleges do? If so, I might be screwed.</p>
<p>I am really worried now after reading this. As far as I know I haven't gotten rejected yet but...
3.5 UW, 4 AP last year and 4 this year, 20% class rank in avg public school
2310 SAT, 232 PSAT</p>
<p>It's a goofy, arbitrary designation.
Is it frustrating? Yes. Disappointing? Of course.</p>
<p>Does it matter/mean anything in the long run? Of course not.</p>
<p>This is very strange, something is not right. If you go back to look at past few years posts, you will not find this many people here on CC not making finalist.</p>
<p>My dd is not a straight A student, she had one c/d in honors math Jr year but has 3.8 GPA...seems so arbitrary that one bad grade would prevent her from finalist status esp when only 1000 are supposed to be in that group....I would think there are many who don't turn in paperwork /no school recommendation/gpa below 3.0 and the posters here would not be excluded. I'm not concerned about the $2000 NM scholarships but the full ride from her first choice that is no longer available</p>
<p>I'm sorry you all didn't make it. I just learned about NM through this board, and was excited because my HS Freshman could potentially get this. With the downturn in the economy, a guaranteed free ride scholarship is a nice thing to have. When only 1000 are supposed to be rejected, it seems odd that 9 on this board, (yes, I counted) were cut with decent grades and EC. Only one had a disciplinary action.
So here's the list of turn downs:
Zakface, ProudPop, Mymo91, Bananafish91, SivRam, Nellygof, Momma17777, Magneticpoet, DDD928.
If anybody else hears news, good or bad, let us know so we can figure out what the cutoffs are.</p>
<p>My Son also got this letter. GPA is 94% weighted, 2160 SAT, IB, 6 AP's, PSAT 223
He also goes to an extremely difficult high school (ranked in Newsweek Top 18).
we are very disappointed</p>
<p>Sorry for being away for a few days. I am sure my D's downfall was grades. She did have a couple C's. Of course, one was in a dual enrollment course (Statistics)at a local state university. (She later got a 5 on the Stats AP.) The other was AP Physics where she neglected to turn in several labs- I said she was smart not organized!</p>
<p>While she/we are very dissapointed, the silver lining is that she now realizes how grades matter. She is much more organized and grades are near perfect for the first half of this year.</p>
<p>If I didn't get the letter by today, does that mean I probably got NMF? When's the latest they would sent the rejection letter?</p>
<p>Wow, this is strange. My son in 2005 was a NMF, with a 226 PSAT and a 1510 SAT (in the old days), but he only had a 3.3 weighted gpa. Granted he went to a really tough private boys school, but there were 35 NMF's his year at this school and they ALL made NMF, some with lower gpa's and rank than my son!!</p>
<p>I cannot see how many of y'all's outstanding kids with better stats are being denied. Something must be up!</p>
<p>I don't know if it's that odd. We had 4 SFs at my school, and I'm only ranked in the top 10% of my class whereas the other three are in the top 10 people. I also have one C+ on my transcript, lackluster freshman grades, and I took the SAT twice (scored below PSAT once by 40 points and above by 30 the next time). I guess it makes sense, I just never thought I'd be one of the cut ones.</p>
<p>It's fine, though. The only bad thing about it is that I worry that it is an indicator of what's to come in the spring, but I hope that's just reading too much into it. I already got deferred from an ED school that easily could have rejected me.</p>
<p>With Raghagd's son it's up to 10. 1% of all the cut ones all with decent grades and SAT's. It does seem odd.
Here's the list Zakface, ProudPop, Mymo91, Bananafish91, SivRam, Nellygof, Momma17777, Magneticpoet, DDD928, Raghagd</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm most upset by the lost scholarship opportunity :(</p>
<p>Same poet. I could care less about being called a National Merit Finalist, but the scholarship opportunities it presented were/are fantastic. By not making finalist my in state scholarships now drop from $15,000/yr to $8,500 or $9,000/yr. Granted that still covers all of tuition plus room and board and then some, and not even an otherwise perfect in state student would get $15,000 without NMF, it is still disappointing. The worst though is that I was pretty much relying on that extra money I could receive from Ohio State (1st choice), but now it is looking more and more like I am going to be stuck going in state strictly for financial reasons. Bummer really.</p>