Thank you for all the time spent on your posts @Barfly. Perhaps DS’s counselor noted that the chemistry class was accelerated, even though it does not count as an Honors course. I will hold onto that hope while I wait for the mail today…
@cshecmia I was wondering the same thing. I still don’t think that school on the east coast is doing THAT much for its 100+ NMSFs.
heck…lol…they may have their own form since they ALWAYS have a ton of NMSFs.
@barfly you could take a pic of the form and turn it into an avatar for today. lol
@barfly do you homeschool?
I only ask bc my GC just finished reassuring me that she sent a transcript with year end grades only. I can’t imagine that she would not tell me the truth, knowing that it would come out when S didn’t advance to NMF and I started snooping around. I’m not questioning @barfly and others’ experiences. It just doesn’t add up. If it was not so important in terms of reporting C’s and the corresponding consequences, we could just chalk it up to one of those things.
Personally hoping for @goaskdad that in Kansas the NMSF cut score yielded not many NMSFs over their target number and so they don’t need to reject many. Praying you need at least 3 semester C’s or more in KS to get that letter. Fingers Xed for no letters for any of you today.
We don’t have such a thing as year end grades here, more’s the pity. Only semester grades. If we had year end grades, S’s one semester B would have disappeared in the AP Bio year end grade. Darn. Really stinks because if he happens to attend our flagship he would have received a scholarship from the state of over $2,200/yr. Need a 4.0 and then a good ACT for tiebreaker to be one of the top 5 students and get that. Teacher told him if he did well on AP test she’d change the grade. He got a 4, not good enough. Only 6% of testers get a 5 on AP Bio. He even had 2 quarter A’s going into the semester final, then kind of blew the final.
But my kvetching is about peanuts compared to what goaskdad and others are hoping for. Floridians especially must all be on pins and needles with their new great scholarships. Good luck to you all!
I think we are safe here, but reading this thread is making me nervous.
I am a homeschooling mom and the process that Barfly described from a few years ago is exactly the process that I completed this year as the “guidance counselor” for my home school. I could not send in a transcript - I had to build a transcript on the NM website. Only letter grades for years 9th - 11th were listed. The GC has the option of listing grades by quarter, semester, or just year-end final grades.
Homeschool principal here. Barfly is correct.
@mom2collegekids, no my kids all went to a super large public school. But with S1, we went to a National Scholar day at a college, and we were advised to get a copy of whatever the school submitted for my son to the NMSC “in case we needed to appeal”. I asked for it by telling the counselor that the college told us we had to have it, and to my surprise the counselor gave me the entire application, including her recommendation.
On the upside, no letter in Kansas City today.
On the downside, I stress-ate almost an entire bag of Brach’s Tiny Conversation Hearts…
You will need a trip to the dentist one way or the other before this is over…
So it looks like what I have from class of 2010 hasn’t changed for class of 2015. Perhaps the counselor for @Cshecmia sent in a transcript somehow, or perhaps the counselor just meant that she sent in the transcript info by replicating it on the NMSC form. Either way, I think we would have received the letters already if we were going to get them. I think we’re all safe. So I’m going to have a drink (or maybe ice cream) and celebrate!! Cheers!
Yes, I guess the home school people have a slight advantage just because we know what was submitted to NMSC grades-wise. I don’t know what my recommender (my Calc I professor) said about me, but I’m sure it was good because he was happy to do the rec for me and I was a good student in his class.
Oh, and no letter for me today either.
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The GC has the option of listing grades by quarter, semester, or just year-end final grades.
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option…hmmm
Cheers @barfly. clink glasses
did the people who received the rejection letters mention the postmark date of the letters? or the date on the letter itself?
@Barfly, I really (really) hope you’re correct, but I’m still fairly concerned about our mail delivery here. IF one of the other houses that gets our mail decided like this particular mailing looked important enough to mark and put back out for re-delivery, that letter would probably still be on its way.
I’ve never been happier to NOT get a letter, but I can’t rest easy quite yet.
I wonder if the letters have all arrived within a few days of each other in years’ past. One poster who called NMSC indicated that letters may be sent in “waves,” or words along those lines. At least I “think” that’s what was said. It’s hard to keep everything straight at this point.
At least it’s Friday. We ALL have that going for us!
@goaskdad did you check the portal?
@albert69. I’m so glad you remain Letter-Free!
It was me that called, and IRRC, they said “we have begun to send”, or maybe “we have started sending them”, something that wasn’t concrete like “yes, we sent them last week”.
Scrolling back it was “we started to send them out to students who haven’t met the requirements” ~ I wrote it down at the time, and that was almost an exact quote (minus the confusion between phone, ear, and hand, pen, paper.)
@mom2collegekids, I just did. Hadn’t had the heart to look since a couple of days ago. The portal still works for DS, but I think we all agree that it may not mean anything. Nonetheless, it does still work. So that’s something.
@PAMom21 When did you call?
And is there a possibility that the person you spoke to may not have actually known whether the mailings were complete or not?