<p>I GOT INTO NATIONALS!!! :D</p>
<p>Who else?</p>
<p>^Find out via email or phone call first?</p>
<p>I MADE FINALS TOO!!! phone call, email a bit later in the day.</p>
<p>:D
i made it, too!</p>
<p>insorak and messiah: where are you going to put your name? on the questionnaire itself, or on a coversheet?</p>
<p>:D Congrats on everyone who’s made it so far! We’re waiting to hear from phosphorylescence… :P</p>
<p>I’m going to put my name on the questionnaire itself, because the directions were to fax and I’d feel slightly awkward faxing a coversheet.</p>
<p>If you got the email and phone call, does that mean you’re definitely a finalist (as long as you fill out the questionnaire)?</p>
<p>^Yes. Did you?
And aren’t the notifications staggered?</p>
<p>Well, I guess I’m a finalist then! I hadn’t studied biology in a month when I took the semifinal exam, and I didn’t feel that great about it, so I’m sort of in shock. Congrats to all you other finalists!</p>
<p>(I’m waiting until the announcement on Wednesday to tell most people about it, but hey, hopefully the internet will preserve my anonymity in this case.)</p>
<p>About what proportion of those first called decline it?</p>
<p>^Why would anyone know such a hidden/obscure statistic.</p>
<p>Some of us know everything.</p>
<p>^Did you get in?</p>
<p>I haven’t heard anything. Did you get in?</p>
<p>I think usually about 1 person a year ditches finals for RSI, but not much else will regularly trump finals.</p>
<p>hmm id think the seniors would decline-- isn’t graduation sometime during the 2 weeks of finals?</p>
<p>Biology > graduation. USABO Finals are the same time as my school’s finals, but I’d gladly take a 0 on all of them to go to USABO. (It’s not that big of a grade hit - only -10 points on my year average. I’d still have a B+ in AP Chem, AP Music, and Honors Physics. :P)</p>
<p>finals and RSI doesn’t even conflict tho… one ends at june 19th and the other begins june 20th. unless u mean making the actual IBO?</p>
<p>Are there usually a significant number of MOPpers in the top 20? USABO finals definitely conflict with MOP…</p>
<p>You’re not allowed to do two national olympiads at once, IIRC.</p>
<p>What is he talking about when he says announcement on wednesday?</p>