No letter here in NM. I still have a chance…
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Does anyone know that if a rejection letter is received, does it say why the NMSF was rejected? Or would we have to guess on the "why’?
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Yes. If it’s because of grades, then academic performance is mentioned.
at my son’s school, the ONLY NMSF to not make it to finalist was the one who wrote a rude essay mocking the NM process. His rejection letter mentioned that his essay was rude. After that happened, the school requires that they students show the GC their essays first.
Oh, my gosh, @mom2collegekids! When did that happen? It’s only been a couple years that the essays are submitted online by the students. Before that, the school had to submit hard copies, so the students had to send the essay to the school and the counselor would have had an opportunity to see the essay.
I have heard stories before of NMSFs writing rude essays. Just can’t imagine! Perhaps in the teen brain it seemed clever and edgy? Or maybe it was just a rude kid! One of my sons submitted a humorous essay for an honors college app. I was concerned it would not be taken in the light he intended, but the honors director told him they all loved it and they passed copies of it around the Honors office. It wasn’t rude - just funny. Still, I thought it was a risk.
Maybe something about the whole evaluation thing rubbed them the wrong way. I mean, who are these people, anyway?
I was initially upset to get classified as a “Condemned Student”, but later found out that was actually “Commended”…
I don’t know, @JustOneDad. Being a Condemned Student would have added to your Bad Boy appeal to high school girls. You know, the tough kid with the NHS patch on his letterman jacket who was also a Condemned Student! My parents would have told me to Stay Away from that Boy!
No letter here in Kansas City today, at least not at our address. Neighbors have not reported-in yet, however. Bless them, they are watching out for a letter, too. Random people living in other subdivisions (who also get our mail), will probably not make an effort to contact us if a letter is received, though they may mark it to be re-delivered, so that could take a couple of extra days.
For every day that there’s no letter, I’m extremely grateful. Thank you to those who continue to post useful information and/or support. I’m sure I’m not the only person waiting who appreciates that.
Hang in there, @GoAskDad. I remember waiting here with you on this thread last September, anxiously waiting to learn the cutoff scores. I hope you don’t get that letter.
Question for all of you…S was accepted EA to his reach school…yay! But, it doesn’t offer any NM money…boo!
What should he do about the first choice school designation so that he will be considered for the $2500 NM scholarship? Thanks!!
Thank you, @MamaBear16. Yes, this has been an unbelievable ride for DS (and me!), but a key lesson learned is that there are great people out there, folks I will never meet in “real life,” who have turned up to support those of us who are waiting, and those who haven’t gotten the news they’d hoped for. So whatever the outcome of all this, I’m reminded of how good people can be, and that adds a dimension to this journey that I would have never expected.
I’m especially anxious for all the students on the threads related to rejection letters - those posting, those lurking. As a mom, I really feel for them.
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Oh, my gosh, @mom2collegekids! When did that happen? It's only been a couple years that the essays are submitted online by the students. Before that, the school had to submit hard copies, so the students had to send the essay to the school and the counselor would have had an opportunity to see the essay.
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I have heard stories before of NMSFs writing rude essays. Just can’t imagine! Perhaps in the teen brain it seemed clever and edgy? Or maybe it was just a rude kid! One of my sons submitted a humorous essay for an honors college app. I was concerned it would not be taken in the light he intended, but the honors director told him they all loved it and they passed copies of it around the Honors office. It wasn’t rude - just funny. Still, I thought it was a risk.
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This was when the stuff was handed into the GC office. I think that the GC just didn’t read it. There were several NMSFs that year, and likely she was busy with all the senior stuff and didn’t read each essay.
In hindsight, knowing this kid quite well, I think he may be “on the spectrum” because he doesn’t’ have a filter. He is extremely bright 1600 M+CR.
After that, the GC was told she had to read the essays. Now that they’re done online, the students have to email their essay to her first. Yes, a student could be dishonest and still submit a bad one, but so far that hasn’t happened. Again, he has been the ONLY NMSF not to make Finalist in the school’s history.
@Felicita College choice has nothing to do with the one-time $2500 NMSC award. Those are chosen from among ALL Finalists sometime around the end of January. He can have any school listed or still be undecided – doesn’t matter.
Do you know if the rejection letters are all sent on the same date? Do you know what date they were sent this year?
@kmywest No one knows when they were sent. Someone called and asked, but NMSC didn’t say. Letters started being received yesterday.
Thank you.
No letter at our house in Kansas City today. I’m hanging in there with everyone who’s waiting, and I want to again thank those who’ve taken time to post information about the letters they’ve received. That’s very generous of those posters under the circumstances.
I checked DS’s NMSC portal yesterday and it still allowed him to select a college, but I don’t have the heart to check it tonight. I didn’t tell him that someone else had suggested that, and if it’s not active today then I’d rather he find out on Friday or over the weekend, not a school night.
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@goaskdad Do we now know that the portal is deactivated once a NMSF is rejected???
I am still wondering if the “devil is in the details”. In another post, someone posted that he was rejected for one C in Health. But, at many schools “Health” is a one semester class…so that would also be the “final grade”. That would be different than situations where someone had a year-long class and maybe had an A or B one semester and a C the other semester…the year-end grade might be a B- or even a B.
We also don’t know if students really know WHAT their transcripts include. We didn’t know that our kids’ school only listed year-end grades on transcripts until we happened to actually see what got sent. A student can have 2 or 3 Cs, but if the school only reports year-end grades and those ended up being B’s, then…NMCorp isn’t going to reject because they’re not going to know about them.
@mom2collegekids, no - that was just a guess that another poster made on one of these threads. I should have clarified that point. None of us know and, actually, I tend to think NMSC would not deactivate a link until official announcements are made in February. I didn’t mean to mislead. It occurred to me to check again tonight, but I don’t have the heart to do it.
I request updated transcripts each year, so I know exactly what’s on ours. I’m concerned about what for S was a B, reported in percentage only, as 84, which would be a C on the dreaded 7 point scale.
I have just been “assuming” that the copy of the transcript DS gets from his school each semester is what the school sent to NMSC. I should have asked to see what was being sent, before it was sent. I am such a Chicken about asking for such things.