<p>YAY! congrats guys. I got it too and I am soooo excited :) I came home late today and there were like 20 messages from newspaper reporters :P</p>
<p>wow i didnt get any</p>
<p>well...chinese reporters from chinese newspapers haha</p>
<p>haha funny.</p>
<p>Congrats everyone! What happens next?</p>
<p>we wait .</p>
<p>January 30th is when finalists are announced. However, I understand from previous finalists that the students are called the night before and given the news.</p>
<p>Yo, just cause New York dominates every other state's lame butt doesn't mean you gotta hate.</p>
<p>I am reminded of some song that always was on the radio.
"This is why I'm hot. This is why I'm hot. This is why, this is why, this is why I'm hot. I'm hot cause I'm FLY, you AIN'T cause you NOT. This is why, this is why, this is why I'm hot." Replace 'I'm' with 'New York is' and 'you' with 'every other state in the union' and you might get it.</p>
<p>New York FTW</p>
<p>Haha. Not everyone is hating here you know. It's just because the east coast, esp. NY has a tradition of high school research and a lot of other states don't. A lot of states don't even know what Intel STS is.</p>
<p>Darn tootin.</p>
<p>Meaning...</p>
<p>right on, bra.</p>
<p>I'm assuming you're in the semi finals?</p>
<p>someone told me that we get called throughout the time from now to Jan 30. so is it that or just the night before? I think the prolong wait is a little too suspensful for my taste :D</p>
<p>Yeah. And idk about all of the crap with people from NY having connections and stuff. I worked independent of a real deal scientist mentor person without connections and without the backing of some lab or university. Maybe that helped, idk.</p>
<p>i worked with a mentor, but didn't have that much contact with her. Basically, if I needed to order stuff, I went to her, and if I had some trouble with my experimentation, i contacted her. But she had nothing to do with my application (xcept filled the mentor form).</p>
<p>What were your researches on?</p>
<p>Intel won't call til the night before because the press release is announed on the 30th and they don't want the local press getting wind of finalists in advance.</p>
<p>Arg...the wait is going to kill me!</p>
<p>I seriously had to go to the nurse when the website didn't work on the semifinal announcements. I think I got a little too worked up...oh well!</p>
<p>anyone got any ideas on how to notify colleges now?</p>