<p>^^^</p>
<p>Very well said Atomom!!!</p>
<p>I have been stressing out over this with my parents what do you guys think? I’m a National Achievement semifinalist from Iowa but our mail is being forwarded to Indiana. I forgot to change my address with NMSC so the letter would still be going to Iowa then on to Indiana. We haven’t received a letter yet. </p>
<p>Do you think I’m in the clear? Iowa is right next to Illinois and not very far from Indiana and it has be 9 postal days since the letters were sent.</p>
<p>I was 100% expecting a rejection-I have three trimester cs and a trimester D from freshman year but a overall gpa of 3.7.</p>
<p>I posted something about this (notification date for NAF) on the African American board. Someone responded that the high schools were sent the list of finalist last Friday. So, you could ask your school. I think if you have not gotten the letter you are probably okay. Our school usually released NAF and NMF names at the same time so my counselor probably won’t tell me anything. But no rejection letter yet, so I am holding out hope still.</p>
<p>Question: When do high schools get NMF names?</p>
<p>According to their time table, they should mail the list of finalists to the schools on 1/30 and send notice to the finalists on 2/6.
<a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_R&I_Leaflet.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_R&I_Leaflet.pdf</a></p>
<p>No rejection letter today (:</p>
<p>You are safe. You would have gotten a rejection letter a while ago.</p>
<p>The way we even considered Mizzou was kind of odd. My daughter researched colleges for Engineering and found Missouri University of Science and Technology. She was extremely interested, and just started looking at other schools in the area. We did a college visit trip that included Southern Ill, Mizzou, and S and T.
She just loved Mizzou. I think it just has everything. They are very well known for their journalism program, but have many majors. It is a beautiful campus, and pretty much everything there was impressive. If looking for perhaps an SEC school(we aren’t interested in that) just a 4 yr university that offers the whole college experience, it should be considered. Columbia is a cool little college town, and you step right off campus into downtown, where there are a lot of little shops, cafes, etc. We just had a good experience there.</p>
<p>@SurvivorFan: You seem pretty confident that if one hasn’t gotten the rejection letter by now (Jan 23), that he/she is safely moving on to NMF. How can you be so sure? How do we know there wasn’t a “second batch” of rejection letters that perhaps got sent this week? We are still going through our mail each day with fingers crossed…</p>
<p>^^ Last year’s thread gives that impression. But I too still check the mail with trepidation . . .</p>
<p>After all, there are not that many rejection letters to be sent (compare with NMF notification). I don’t think it will take more than a week to send them all out.</p>
<p>We got mail from collegeboard last week and my heart stopped. Luckily it was the younger kid’s letter saying "based on the 2013 psat score, you should take ap courses.</p>
<p>Yoskis, you are not safe yet. Forwarded mail can take 1-3 weeks to get to the new address. Finalist notification should go the school as well as to the NMF. So when people start posting here, check with you GC. He or she will know for sure either way.</p>
<p>^it appears you are right :(, read on NMSC that they would be sending National Achievement letters to the schools as well as the students. Emailed my old high school counselor and I did get rejected. Disappointed but it was what I expected, may appeal but I don’t know if it is worth the effort. </p>
<p>I just don’t understand how a (hooked) applicant can get into Harvard but not become a Finalist.</p>
<p>I just don’t understand how a (hooked) applicant can get into Harvard but not become a Finalist.</p>
<p>ahh…did you get into H? Congrats!</p>
<p>There isn’t any “hook” for NMF or NA…so that’s probably why. H (and similar) can be loosey-goosey with who they choose because they don’t have to have any set “rules”. They can accept who they want to get the desired mix that they want.</p>
<p>Feeling sick that my twins didn’t apply to any full ride NMF schools.</p>
<p>“There isn’t any “hook” for NMF or NA…so that’s probably why. H (and similar) can be loosey-goosey with who they choose because they don’t have to have any set “rules”. They can accept who they want to get the desired mix that they want.”</p>
<p>I understand that they may have their set “rules” but they are their own organization they can change the rules if they want to making an arbitrary cutoff based on a couple of freshman years and a system that penalizes students on trimester and quarter system. It just defies logic in my opinion but i don’t know everything.</p>
<p>@3tallblonds It’s not too late. Most schools haven’t closed regular decision.
Here is a list of full ride schools:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/136920-full-rides-national-merit-finalists-scholars-22.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/136920-full-rides-national-merit-finalists-scholars-22.html</a></p>
<p>yoskis, congrats on Harvard! Most people would trade that for NA or NMF any day–more bragging rights :)</p>
<p>Any program like NM that has a limited number of places has to define its cutoffs somehow, and every year some students will narrowly miss those cutoffs. For NM/NA, students must have consistently excellent grades throughout all of high school, so freshman year does count. And one D, or more than one C (and in some cases just one C or too many B’s/lower GPA) will do you in. Not worth appealing–but who cares if you’re going to Harvard?</p>
<p>yoskis, I agree. Be happy that Harvard was willing to overlook those Freshman year wobbles, and don’t stress over NMF/NA. They have totally different criteria. My NMSF (likely F) son would not have had a chance of being accepted to Harvard.</p>
<p>I replied to another posting of yours…It’s not too late for University of Oklahoma (for sure) or University of Alabama (I think) to qualify for their NMF packages.</p>