<p>If you received a letter that you would not progress and had some excellent justification for the reason cited, you could give it a shot. Someone on another post had lower grades his freshman and soph year because his mom was very ill. She died the summer before his junior year. That would be a reason to attempt an appeal.</p>
<p>Proudparentof4- I'm about 99% sure I'm headed to OU next fall. It's such a small world. But I guess OU is very high in NM kids so it's not too surprising. I'm so anxious to just get everything set. I hate this up in the air thing. It's almost here.</p>
<p>Oh I just found a timeline with actual dates on it. Here's the url:</p>
<p>February 8th Finalists are notified.</p>
<p>GPdrummer08, Hopefully you will hear from your hs after they get their letter. Some hs are more on the ball than others though. Yes dd will be going to Ou. I got an email from OU after asking a question and the National Merit Office there confirms letters go out to those who don't progress in Jan, so at this point no news is good news. So congrats for not hearing yet.</p>
<p>I called NMSC and asked when they notified the students who do not move on to the finalist status and they said most of those students were notified already in January. That was pretty encouraging.</p>
<p>Very encouraging. Thanks everybody, and good luck :)</p>
<p>D just got word at school that she and the other 3 NMSF's all are now NMF!!! And it usually takes awhile for mail to get here. Good luck to everyone waiting!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all! No word from my school, but I wasn't expecting any seeing as it took them 3 weeks to give me my Semi-Finalist packet.</p>
<p>Fortunately, in this case they'll mail it to your house, too, in less than a week-- so not quite as agonizing a wait, GPdrummer. Sure you're gonna get it, though.!</p>
<p>Made it. Told this morning at school.</p>
<p>J'adoube & wvartsymom-congrats!</p>
<p>I think I recall reading somewhere that once finalist status is confirmed, more letters will arrive from colleges interested in recruiting NMF's. What if D receives a letter from a school she has not applied to, but now has interest in? Will they accept and give full consideration to a late NMF applicant?</p>
<p>cocmom, my son received a letter from Arizona State this week which says "we want to hear from you at any time" with "at any time" underlined. It does say he would need to be admitted and designate ASU as his first choice by the National Merit Corporation's deadline in order to receive ASU's scholarship. So, they are still actively recruiting, and I'm sure others will be too. If others find out about such offers still available, it would be nice to post them.</p>
<p>2blue, did the ASU letter indicate a $23,500/yr. OOS scholarship for NMF?</p>
<p>leungpy1, yes, it did. It also says to compare it to scholarships offered by other schools, pointing out it is renewable for four years and that scholarships offered by other schools may not be the same amount after the first year. Sounds like it is important to look at the fine print for all four years when deciding on these. I'd also be sure to check out what exactly it takes to renew scholarships at various schools.</p>
<p>Thank you 2blue.
D received 2 letters from ASU last week, one inviting her to a dinner in our area this week. I can't seem to convince her to go just to listen. ASU has such a party school reputation--she really can't seem to get past it. Most of the letters she has received for NMF scholarships are from huge schools trying to attract students to their honors college programs (with the exception of U of Tulsa). Some of the LAC's she's interested in only offer a token scholarship to NMF's. Has this been the experience of other families?</p>
<p>Dd just got notified that she progressed to finalist. What a relief!</p>
<p>thanks, LoPro, and congrats to D'Jadoube and Proudparentof4.</p>
<p>I moved to NMF; I don't really think this does anything in the college application process. Everyone applying to top schools is practically NMF</p>
<p>I guess its only good for getting full ride/good money at lower tier schools.</p>
<p>Might get 2500 as a national merit scholar.</p>