Nope. Did not apply to either OU or ASU.
Whew! After that, I’ll need two cookies!
I think the colleges that sponsor NM already DO know something. Here’s my theory. My son was just offered a private endowed scholarship by a particular university. It is in addition to the NM package. According to the websites of both the scholarship organization and the university, it requires that he make finalist. The bios of all the past recipients list NM finalist. But the offer to my son does not say anything about it being contingent on his making finalist. If finalist is a requirement, and I believe it is, why would the official written offer not be content on his progressing to finalist? I think they already KNOW! (If you guys think this is just wishful thinking, don’t tell me, ok?)
@Barfly, your logic works for me!! And congratulations to your DS. That’s fantastic!
Congrats to @barflyjr. Great news.
Congratulations @Barfly! Woohoooooo!
HI! Just checking in from Kentucky,I have been reading all of your posts for a week! We are also still waiting to hopefully receive a Finalist letter! No updated news or hints yet from the colleges on daughter’s list which are National Merit. Hoping to hear from the school counselor this week…I don’t have any big reasons to be super-nervous about it, but still would like the letter in hand!
Thanks, Ya’ll! Didn’t mean to boast - I was just offering it as support for my theory that the universities must already know he’s a finalist. We are pretty excited about the offer, though. It is one of his top two universities, and the other is OU, so I’m thinking my next mojito can be with the good rum!
@barfly, hope you are right too, and that he gets that scholarship money! You aren’t boasting, just sharing!
@barfly - Nice!!!
I have been reading this thread for a few weeks it seems…thank you for keeping me updated and sorry if that’s considered eavesdropping!! I am feeling the same stress while we wait that so many of you describe, that I feel like you’ve been a support group for me. 
I thought I’d share that today my son received an invitation in the mail to the reception/dinner at UCF that is invitation only for NM Finalists. I think that must mean they know? Previous communications have been more along the lines of “save the date…” What do you think?
Not to go off on a tangent, but speaking of boasting, it’s something that’s never far from our minds. We frequently don’t share our kids successes because we don’t want to boast. We’ve also taught our kids this since they were very very young. It’s a weird boat to be in. You are proud of your kids, but many times the accomplishments are just an every now and then, ‘good job’, rather than being accompanied by mucho fanfare. It’s just another day at the office type attitute. They (all the children whose parents are on this thread) often accomplish things on a variety of big stages and at the top of the game. They deserve to reap rewards, including recognition, that come from the work – even though a child may be gifted, it’s the execution and using the gifts that really matter and that require work. I’ve seen some parents commenting on the ‘elite-ness’ of their children in areas where not all kids are NMF candidates and I feel awkwardly embarassed for them, yet at the same time understand how proud they are. I also see parents who are reserved about their children’s accomplishments, maybe like we are, and think, “Hey, it’s ok…shout it from the highest rooftops!”. It’s nice to have an area of CC like this where no-one is really boasting, we’re sharing things that others might not care about or want to hear about for whatever reason. We have similar successes to share. My hope is truly that whatever happens, the NMF kids are able to take the opportunities that they’ll have and make the world a better place for themselves, their peers and their children. It’s not only about the tremendous relief that an NMF scholarship will bring to many, us included. These kids really have the potential to have major impacts in their areas of study and beyond. So do other kids – but the potential in this pool is concentrated. How exciting.
@anniechris welcome to #lunchwithluke club. If he knows, he isn’t saying yet.
I never knew I could make it this far. I am amazed to be a NMSF and (hopefully) a NMF. That was something my sister, the brilliant one with the perfect SAT, did, not me, the average, full of stupid errors student. (Average being a relative term - there are 2 genius kids, one slow learner, and me, who is kind of in between.) Granted that it was harder for her because she came from a state with a higher cutoff score, but still - I am just rambling aimlessly now - I am so glad to have gotten this far!
Thank you @Cshecmia! We’re looking forward to the reception. We had planned on attending last November but my daughter (other child) got sick. We haven’t visited the campus yet, but like what we’ve seen and the support from Luke (especially that!)
@barfly Wow, a private scholarship “White Knight” swooping in to add more $$$ on top of your child’s NM scholarship from the school! I want one of those! Now you’ve given me hope there may be more scholarship money out there for D’s favorite schools than I was aware of. 
@goinggoing, I like your post above. I do think many of us feel safe “sharing” here, while clearly such “sharing” would not be acceptable in our physical communities. I can always call my kids’ grandmothers when I really want to brag on them! Their grandmothers LOVE to hear it! But even that can become touchy if the grandmothers “retweet” the info to others in the family.
Your comment about parents commenting about the ‘elite-ness’ of their children makes me think of a post I read today - a parent was angry his/her child did not get a scholarship to a particular school, but the stats posted would make that student very average at that school. Sometimes we have to all recalibrate - What I mean is that sometimes I really do think my kid is the cutest and smartest 18 year old in the history of Earth, but I also realize some of you may think that YOUR kid is the cutest and smartest. We can’t all be right! (To be fair, sometimes I think mine is the biggest knucklehead in the history of Earth. Then, too, I may be wrong).
For what it’s worth, I love to hear about the success of students that their parents share, whether on CC or in person! Share on!
No idea. It is just that everyone here seems to be unsure if they were sent or received and this poster shared the news they found out their kid’s classmate was turned down for not writing the essay or something like that (It also sounded like the GPA was low) I thought I would point you to someone actually receiving a notification.
My son got a long email from Univ. Oklahomma this afternonon also. “Saying as you wait to hear from NMF on your scholarship,here is what we will be offering you…” Sounds like they know something…
@vistajay, there is money out there! We know many local students who received nice scholarships to in-state and OOS universities. But they had to apply! A couple years ago I got an earful from a very bitter parent. Her daughter didn’t get any scholarships. I was surprised - her daughter is an amazing, talented, smart and hardworking young woman majoring in chemical engineering. How, I wondered, did she not get any scholarships? Not one cent! She didn’t even get the local chemical engineering scholarship that 4 kids from our HS all got! Well, she didn’t apply. When I asked the mother about it, sure enough her daughter did not apply for any scholarships. I was flabbergasted! Not just because she didn’t apply, but because her mother thought she could get scholarships without applying for them! She also didn’t get any scholarships from the university, but it turns out she only applied to 1 university and she told them that in her application. So why would the university give her money, no matter how much they might want her, when they knew she was going to enroll there?