****UNOFFICIAL Class of 2015 National Merit Finalist Thread****

Bravo @GoAskDad‌ I feel the groundswell of support for a concert tour ! (Not till you get your letter of course.) Good luck.

Unfortunately now I have an “earworm” consisting of the chorus from the 1973 song “Brother Louie” by the Stories. Replacing Louie with the name Jimmy.

This is a sure sign of advancing age !

@Showingupforlife, I would say that is clear evidence that they all made Finalist status! Congrats!

It is also clear evidence that people are very confused about just what “Scholar” means, because at this point there are no “Merit Scholars”, only Finalists. Scholar means the student has received the $$$ from NMSC, a sponsoring university, or a sponsoring corporation. Clearly your principal has been tutored by our school district. They have a lovely ceremony to acknowledge all NMSFs, Commended Students, National Hispanic students and National Achievement students, during which they hand each one a certificate (printed right there at the ISD offices, so it MUST be official) congratulating the student for being a National Merit Scholar.

Can anyone tell me which university is WSU?

I don’t know how to quote, but someone asked whether the letter arrived via UPS or regular mail. Our letter arrived via regular mail.

Shuttlebus, I work at my Ds high School and her letter arrived yesterday by UPS. It had to be signed for. Waited all day yesterday for principle to give it to her, but he did not. Hoping he gives it to her today.

Oooh, maybe your letter is special @UTBGSUMOM!

@studycollege‌ The WSU referred to mostly in this thread is Wichita State University in Kansas.

NanaSusanna I’m waiting in MO as well. Maybe today is the day! Good luck!

UPS…Uber Pigeon Syndicate?

I’ve been lurking here a week or so, thought you’d all like to hear that I got my certificate from my principal here in Arkansas yesterday!

Congrats to all of the newly informed finalists! @DrHamlet and @shuttlebus and probably @Showingupforlife‌ Feeling like today will be the day for many of us!

I am so happy for all who have received the Finalist Notification, @albert69 for just being so completely awesome, @GoAskDad for your new career as a country artist (and the fact that you have Girl Scout cookies onthe way), and Jimmie the Intern for managing to thouroughly confuse everyone on here. Unfortunately, the stress has officially gotten to me, and I’m off to shoot every pigeon that I encounter today. WE ARE NEVER GOING TO FIND OUT. Is there even really a letter do you think? Or a NMSC??? I feel like I’m living in the movie Groundhog Day, but without the cute ending.

@Barfly‌ I hope you’re rught, I’d like all four kids to get Finalist status because I know most of them. This has been a long, stressful haul but an awesome problem to have!

@goinggoing and @studycollege That is correct, WSU refers to Wichita State University in KS. That’s where I’m planning to go.

No news in Iowa…tired of hounding the admin! No pigeons either…

Wouldn’t it be funny if some of the individual letters got some places before the schools’ letters do in some places?

@albert69…ummmm…No. Actually, that would not be funny - because that has MY kid written all over it! But I’m sure that probably IS how it will go down, IF it goes down at all.

The fact that we have Girl Scout Cookies arriving at our house today means I’m destined for at least 1 more week of Stress Eating!

Congratulations to all our new NMFs!!

I’ll pass around some virtual boxes of Girl Scout Cookies while the rest of us wait…

Adding Arkansas. Here’s our current list, I believe:

New Mexico - Sat 2/7 - homeschooler

Arkansas - Mon 2/9 - heard from school
California - Mon 2/9 - heard from school
Michigan - Mon 2/9 - heard from school
Nevada - Mon 2/9 - homeschooler
Ohio - Mon 2/9 - heard from school
Texas - Mon 2/9 - homeschooler

??? - Tues 2/10 - ???

dying here in Iowa, soon I may take on the reality of my screen identity…