<p>Anyone get the good news yet??? Should be soon!</p>
<p>nope, only bad news. sent my letter today to NM asking them to reconsider</p>
<p>Are our schools supposed to notify us, or will we receive mail at home?</p>
<p>I heard that if you haven't heard anything from them yet, good news is coming.</p>
<p>Is a 198 a high enough score?</p>
<p>Notifications were sent to schools earlier this week -- they should arrive in the next day or so.</p>
<p>Students are notified also -- at their home addresses -- next week.</p>
<p>prmatin a 198 is not a high enough score for National Merit semifinalist. You can only be a finalist if you were a semi finalist first and you should have been notified already of being a semifnalist if you took the PSAT in 2007. If you took it in 2008 than that score isn't high enough to get semi anywhere I am aware of. Maybe semi in National Achievement or NAtional hispanic if you said you were black or hispanic.</p>
<p>I haven't heard anything yet. I hope musicmomic is right about next week, I want to find out soon :p</p>
<p>does anyone know what the oklahoma cutoff was? i got a 209 but im also a sophomore so it doesnt count but i want to see how i can improve... i need over a 220 i think to get into RSI next year.</p>
<p>RSI uses the PSAT only as a cutoff, not as a major factor in admissions. Make sure that you are active in science fairs/science olympiad teams to try to get in.</p>
<p>but yeah, Im still waiting on national merit news as well.</p>
<p>Our son received a certificate from his high school Principal on Friday (2/6) from the National Merit program saying that he has advanced to "finalist standing". We live on the West Coast.</p>
<p>I think at this point it probably depends less on the US Postal Service and more on what processes the school uses to record and issue the notice.</p>
<p>Principal emailed finalists Friday with a personal congrats.</p>
<p>Still waiting on the mail here. We know geek_son's NMF (no rejection letters, and all the stats are up there), but no word from the school office. But they didn't notify him of NMSF status either; we had to go to them to request his packet after we knew he'd cleared the cutoff for our state. No apology or explanation, and I think he wouldn't have received the packet at all (hence no chance at NMF) if we hadn't pressed it.</p>
<p>Don't know why they're not more on top of this; they make a big deal about scholarships and NM status, but it's been like pulling teeth. <em>shrug</em> At least we're well-informed, thanks to CC. :)</p>
<p>We haven't heard either. Very frustrating. As you say, pretty confident since we haven't heard he wasn't, but sure would like to get the official word. Any one heard by mail yet?</p>
<p>DSTDOR, which state in the west do you live?
do you mind sharing w/ us what the cutoff was?
i live in california.
thanks.</p>
<p>I'm in Ohio, and I've been stalking my mailman since last week, but I have still received nothing. I'm glad there are others out there, though.. I felt sure that I wasn't a finalist since I hadn't heard anything by now. No one in my school's administration has mentioned anything, nor have any of the other three Semi-Finalists at my school.</p>
<p>I saw that some of the finalists already were announced in the media. We should be hearing something soon!!!</p>
<p>I was notified today by my counselor that I am a Nat'l Merit Finalist. Hopefully I can get the actual money come March. Good luck all!</p>
<p>Notified! ^^ </p>
<p>Question, are we responsible for informing our colleges that we made NMF? Or do we just presume they'll figure it out?</p>