<p>I just read over one of my essays for this scholarship and I found a grammatical typo! It’s not one of careless one, but one of those ones that can be easily overlooked. Hopefully they overlook it…I hope there aren’t more…I’m scared now.</p>
<p>Any idea how many finalists they choose? (Sorry if this has already been asked)</p>
<p>@Ohboi</p>
<p>They choose 1000 finalists, hence the Gates MILLENNIUM Scholarship :)</p>
<p>-350 African Americans
-350 Hispanics
-150 Native Americans
-150 Asian Americans</p>
<p>Thanks, but I thought 1000 was the number of winner they have. I want to know how many make it to the next round.</p>
<p>@OHBOI SORRY, SORRY! The number of finalists varies from year to year, but the number of SCHOLARS is always 1000. Because not everyone gets selected who is a finalist (we had 3 from our school last year and no one got it…hopefully I’m the first)!</p>
<p>But yeah, it definitely varies from year to year depending on the applicant pool…correct me if I’m wrong guys…</p>
<p>By the way, I bet you’ll be fine with your grammatical error 
It’s the content that counts (so I’ve heard from past scholars lol)!</p>
<p>Okay. Thank you!</p>
<p>Has anyone been notified if they are a finalist yet or not? Does anyone know what date it will be?</p>
<p>Im so nervous about the notification!!! I’ve been checking my email at least 10 times a day!!! They need to hurry up!!! LOL!</p>
<p>Y’all…I’M SO READY TO KNOW lol…
Last year most Finalists found out March 8th-10th ish…
Here is a copy of an email send out:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/635349-gates-millennium-scholarship-2009-2010-a-14.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/635349-gates-millennium-scholarship-2009-2010-a-14.html</a></p>
<p>omg, asians are notified last a week after everyone else. i think im going to die</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/635349-gates-millennium-scholarship-2009-2010-a-19.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/gates-millennium-scholarship/635349-gates-millennium-scholarship-2009-2010-a-19.html</a></p>
<p>Can someone provide the direct grade conversion from the 4.0 scale to a number grade out of a 100. What is a 3.3 on the 100 number scale?</p>
<p>I don’t know if you are familiar with the QuestBridge program or not, but on their website they say a 3.3 is equivalent to a 87-89. Here’s a link to where I found that: [QuestBridge</a> College Prep Scholarship - Frequently Asked Questions](<a href=“QuestBridge”>http://questbridge.org/cps/faq.html#application)</p>
<p>If you click on “Filling out the QuestBridge application” in the bulleted list, it will take you right to the section on computing your GPA.</p>
<p>@2blue: Did you apply for the Questbridge national college match?</p>
<p>I however applied for the Questbridge program and was a finalist but something crazy happened. My counselor forgot to send my transcript so I did not get match with my choices. But Notre Dame my #1 allowed me to forward my application to EA and I got in!</p>
<p>shyman, congrats on getting accepted to ND! That’s exciting.</p>
<p>chrisakelly, I’m a mom who has helped several local kids with QB apps.</p>
<p>so when do we hear back, im anxiously waiting</p>
<p>Ok, I was looking around at last year’s page and African Americans and Native Americans were notified beginning March 9. Hispanics were on March 10. I didn’t do enough searching to figure out when Asian Americans were notified, but I read that 2 years ago it was a week after everyone else.</p>
<p>My D was a Gates Scholar 2 years ago. As far as the timing goes, each subsection of GMS is administered by a different agency. The timing is just random for whenever they get the decisions out. You can’t base it on previous years. Frustrating…yes! Good luck all.</p>
<p>thanks ga2012mom, i bet you were a happy camper when you found out that your child was going to school with no debt!</p>
<p>I can’t wait to find out. It would make my life so much easier.</p>