<p>NMF notices were sent to the high schools yesterday and to the homes on the 8th (upcoming).</p>
<p>I'll post this on my other thread, but NMC made it clear that your "first choice" school/undecided does not affect whether or not you receive the one time NMC award.</p>
<p>So… no chance I get a rejection letter now? Approximately when will my school get notice?</p>
<p>depends on how long it takes the snail mail :-)</p>
<p>I think you’re safe now :-)</p>
<p>Is there a website we can check if our names are on there?</p>
<p>So if we won the $2500 award then it should be stated in the letter?</p>
<p>Has anyone been told by their school that there is an “embargo date” in which the High School is prevented by NMSC from telling the parents or student about NMF status until the embargo date was lifted???</p>
<p>@ loldaniel - I don’t think the $2500 award will be known until much later. I didn’t ask specifically about the timing and I do recall her saying something about April 21st in regards to that, but I don’t remember what relevance that date is.</p>
<p>I’m in Arizona and I was just informed today that I made Finalist. As far as I know there was no embargo date. Letters to our home addresses should be mailed the 8th of February.</p>
<p>Son got his in the mail today. (Homeschoolers) We’re in Ca.</p>
<p>I’m trying not to over-react but our district has put out a press release announcing only one of our three semi-finalists as a finalist. They published this on Feb. 1. My D is one of the other two semi-finalists. She has perfect grades, awesome SAT, no issues whatsoever(essay was good, I checked it). We did NOT get a rejection letter and filed everything on time. Of course I find this out on a Friday, when I can’t call the school until Monday. How did they even get this boy’s finalist status so early? I assume that the other finalist letters will eventually arrive and be given out…but it’s nerve racking!</p>
<p>The boy announced as finalist was also National Achievement. Could that explain how his status was announced earlier than the others?</p>
<p>Wait so if you don’t get finalist status you don’t even receive a letter notifying you of it?</p>
<p>Also, doesn’t the NMSC website release finalist names? I can’t seem to find it on the website.</p>
<p>How do they even choose the finalists? Is it based mainly on essays, SAT scores, and grades?</p>
<p>If you aren’t a finalist, you would’ve gotten a rejection letter in January. Most semifinalists become finalists. The ones who don’t make it are rejected because of grades (multiple C’s), SAT scores (anything lower than a 1960 last year), or disciplinary problems.</p>
<p>Debbie,</p>
<p>I wonder if the district got confused and when they got the NAF notice, they thought that child was the only one who made it.</p>
<p>I would call NMCorp on Monday to get some kind of clarification.</p>
<p>My D was presented her finalist certificate at school yesterday…</p>
<p>Mom2collegekids</p>
<p>Yes, this is what I have come to believe. After combing the NMSC web site in a panic, I learned that NAF notices were sent in late January. This would have given them time to receive it, give it out and take a picture of the boy for a press release. How awful for the two other kids though (and their parents) If I did not know the process from learning here, I would be in a serious depression right now!</p>
<p>Tomorrow morning, call NMCorp and ask them if your child make finalist. Tell them that you did not get a rejection letter and there’s no reason for your child not to make finalist, but that your school seems confused.</p>
<p>If you get confirmation that your child did make NMF (they may want the GC to also call), then I’d contact the district (or whoever) who put out that press-release and tell them to issue a correction. </p>
<p>Do you know if your school has had more than one finalist each year?</p>
<p>We homeschool and received the letter and certificate in yesterday’s mail here in California.</p>
<p>Thank you, I will do exactly that. Our school has had very few semi-finalists, so it’s hard to answer your question. Last year there were none and the year before, there was only one semi-finalist. This year is a bonanza of sorts for our district. Hopefully, they handled everything correctly. I made sure everything was submitted on time. The other semi-finalist who hasn’t been notified yet is our Valadictorian. I’m 99% certain they all got excellent principal recommendations.</p>
<p>*I’m 99% certain they all got excellent principal recommendations. *</p>
<p>If the school was confused between NMF and NAF, then that would explain the problem.</p>
<p>However, there is a small possibility that since your school doesn’t get many NMSF, that the school was confused and thought that they could only recommend ONE student to become NMF. It’s rare, but a few schools get confused. If this happened, I don’t know if it’s too late to fix this…it may not be too late. NMCorp is usually pretty good about allowing schools to fix misunderstandings.</p>
<p>Students are being notified today at my school on being NMF.</p>