Typically, NMCorp sends the rejection letters the first week of January so people start receiving them around this time frame.
I hope no one gets one. Don’t understand why the Finalist confirmations can’t come at the same time. If they know who is rejected it stands to reason that they know who is not rejected.
Last year at this time I was quite anxious about this. I should not have been, but I couldn’t help it: as far as I was concerned, DD’s entire education depended on being a NMF.
It did not help that we live in the boonies, so our mail is always 1-3 days behind the rest of the world.
I must have gotten one back in 1987, but I don’t remember it. I do remember being called down the office when I made SF status - along with the two smartest guys in the school. I also got called down to the office when Harvard mailed an application to my HS.
I never completed the requirements for Finalist status and wouldn’t have made it anyway. Getting all the mail seemed more fun in the days before the internet.
On pins and needles here waiting for that mail this week. Thinking all kids of crazy thoughts about when they might have gone out, and how long until one would reach us. Will be so glad to know, so we can carry on with other applications and Plan B stuff. I’m too old for this kind of stress! 
I’m here…waiting. I keep resolving not to log on to CC, then I get a free minute and can’t stand the suspense of waiting alone. Hoping against hope we do not get a letter here. Hoping NONE of our DCs get that letter. We do have a Plan B, but it’s just not as good as Plan A. At least we have a Plan B, so that’s something.
DS has one semester C in Soph Chem. There’s an NMSF at his school who will definitely not advance based on disciplinary issues, but i gather the student is brilliant and has a very difficult home life + some of the quirks sometimes associated w/highly gifted individuals. So while I completely understand that students with disciplinary issues will not advance, I have a bit of insight into the challenges this other student has faced and it makes me sad when I look at the picture on the whole.
Anyway, I will post if we get a letter here. Like others have said, at least I’d be helping those who are waiting.
Someone called NMSC (it is being talked about in the other thread) and they basically didn’t give a date that the rejection letters were sent.
No letter in the Kansas City, KS area today, but that’s a Good Thing. That walk to the mailbox is really getting hard.
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Someone called NMSC (it is being talked about in the other thread) and they basically didn’t give a date that the rejection letters were sent.
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They may not have a “set in stone” date, but history has shown that the rejection letters tend to go out sometime between Jan 5-12.
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DS has one semester C in Soph Chem.
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Since some schools (my kids’ high school, for instance), only put year-end grades on transcripts, it would seem only fair that NMCorp look at one semester C in that light. I don’t know what your son’s other semester grade was, but if the average would not be a C, then the C shouldn’t be a hindrance.
Unfortunately, on the past 2 years’ threads there have been students who were rejected with only 1 semester C. I hope that this isn’t the case this year, especially for any of us here on CC.
@mom2collegekids, thanks for your response. DS got a B in Soph Chem first semester and a C second semester. Both grades show up on his transcript. His particular chem teacher did not “round up” - or he would have made a B in the class second semester. The other Soph Chem teacher DID round up, so at least a few students benefited from that, based on what I heard via other parents. The high school stopped offering the class, since it was a notorious GPA-buster, but I don’t know if the counselor mentioned that in her letter to NMSC or not. She did kindly contact me before the letter went out, to discuss the particulars of that grade, and of some Bs on DS’s transcript from that year, too. DS has always carried the toughest courseload, with the exception of going up one year in math, which some students do. So all I can hope is that all the As on his transcript will help balance-out that one semester C. He has many other accomplishments and awards, but the CC threads lead me to believe that those will not really be taken into account. He reported those awards on his submission form, to the extent there was room.
We have a list of schools that have offered scholarships aside from NMF, and DS has a good list of those schools - including Alabama. We are all sold on Alabama, and he has a full tuition scholarship there already, but it’s really far from home and I’m not sure DS is up to that distance. He has an in-state option without NMF, but just needs to adjust his mindset on that school.
I’m old enough to know that everything works out in the end, but so much is in limbo until DS knows his fate either way, so the waiting is what’s hard (for me). DS is rather oblivious to the whole thing at the moment, which is as it should be. He’s aware that a letter may be coming, and why it would be coming, but he has so much else going on that he doesn’t have a ton of time to stew about it.
We shall all hope for empty mailboxes again today!
And no mail Monday. Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing?
I thought approximately 15,000 out of 16,000 made it to finalist status? I would have guessed that a fair amount of the 1,000 who didn’t were either students who didn’t submit the appropriate paperwork or were students like me who crushed standardized tests but didn’t put forth any effort in high school for whatever reason. Now I am starting to worry…one B+ in Honors Physics as a freshman and a B in a semester-long Computer Media elective isn’t going to derail things, is it?
Mail here. No letter again. Baby steps. 
@greeninohio. No. You have to get ‘C’ grades or worse or have discipline issues. ‘B’ grades are not a problem, even if there are many of them.
@greeninohio, no. It seems that only C(s), disciplinary issues and SAT of <1960 are problematic. You can put your mind at ease.
FYI, I just learned that I am a finalist (yay) from Walgreen’s (they offer a corporate scholarship for children of employees). I had 1 C in AP Calc, so hopefully this year one C doesn’t matter? Good luck everyone 
Congratulations, @4everEpical! I would have been shocked if a C in an AP class knocked anyone out of the running. I think it’s more of an issue for the non-AP, non-honors classes. For example, even though DS’s Soph Chem class was an accelerated study of chemistry, it was not even weighted as “honors.” So that has been my worry. Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t remember reading about any DC who was knocked out for one C in an AP class.
You must be so happy! I am happy for you, too. Well done!!
Hurray 4everepical!
When people report whether they made it or not with some C’s, in addition to # of semester C’s, it might be good to note your state of residence- if you don’t mind.
In recent years the number of C’s has varied, with some students rejected and others accepted for one C in a given year. I have a theory that NMSC has a target #NMFs in each state that adds up to 15,000 total and sets the grade standard state-by-state to reject the # needed to get to target after seeing how many don’t send in paperwork. They won’t confirm or deny this. But it is as good a theory as any other to explain the discrepancy until someone can figure out another better idea. Some of those rejected for one C have had almost perfect stats otherwise, and NMSC doesn’t seem moved by appeals of deaths in the family, illness, etc.in appeals.