<p>My school has three finalists, two Asians and one African American, and it is not even academically accepted school according to the state rating. Do they make us compete among each other???</p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-R820 using CC</p>
<p>The lady that emailed me asking for citizenship verification contacted me to tell me that the college verified my citizenship</p>
<p>@scuba9026</p>
<p>I’m in the DFW (Dallas) area</p>
<p>Who contacted you? Are you with HSF? Maybe we had different ladies…</p>
<p>@queenm860: You’ll get your notice 1st. Keep me posted. I’m from the Corpus Christi area.</p>
<p>beatrizhb - No, I am Asian/pacific islander. We did have different ladies.</p>
<p>Four finalists from my school in Mississippi. All African American . It makes me very nervous. I think we may have been the only Mississippi finalists as well but I’m not sure. Still uneasy about it all.</p>
<p>Let’s remain hopeful; there will be exciting news for us tomorrow or Wednesday. I put all of my trust in God!</p>
<p>I’m from San Antonio, and I agree we’ll probably receive them Wednesday.</p>
<p>@Caesar14: you’ll probably still get it before I do. Keep us posted on your mail stakeout.</p>
<p>@scuba9026</p>
<p>I’ll keep you posted. Good luckkk.</p>
<p>good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Which colleges will you be going to?</p>
<p>Scholarship = Trinity University (San Antonio)
No Scholarship = TAMU Kingsville</p>
<p>Hi! GMS finalist from Huntsville, AL. My school had 3 finalists, all AA.</p>
<p>My stats:
EFC- 0
UW GPA: 3.86
W GPA: 4.36
Leadership: Army JROTC Battalion Commander, National Spanish Honor Society Chairperson, Tutoring Club President, Key Club Secretary
*500 hours of commmunity service</p>
<p>@Msquantity2 : what’s the name of your high school?</p>
<p>Asian from California. (Super competitive, b/c so many of those lol 
I thought at least they would email today then get mail on wed.</p>
<p>Oh well. I’m super nervous. I don’t know how many finalists in my school but it’s a small school with mostly rich Caucasian students who would throw a huge fit about “inequality”. lol.</p>
<p>@SciMan: My school is just the opposite. It’s a bunch low income AA. Our schools is known as one of the worst schools in my city. They think we’re all ghetto children that don’t care about anything. I hope the other 2 finalists at my school and I recieve the scholarship so we can give the other students at my school something to strive and show the world that great people can come from Columbia High School.</p>
<p>BTW what are your stats?</p>
<p>@iishninjarawr : I will be attending the Ivy League Instiution founded by Benjamin Franklin- University of Pennsylvania C/o 2017 :D</p>
<p>Just in case anyone was wondering:</p>
<p>I attend Cristo Rey St. Martin de Porres High School in Illinois.
There are 3 finalists from my school. 2 Hispanic and 1 Asian (me)</p>
<p>My school uses a 4.25 GPA scale. All Unweighted.</p>
<p>I have taken 5 out of the 6 AP classes my school offers (the other one I am unable to take because I do not speak Spanish)</p>
<p>GPA - 4.01
Activities:
- Volleyball
- National Honor Society
- Cross Cultural Club
- Soccer
- Environmental Club
- Mathletes
- Student council
- Yearbook Club
- Prom Committee
- Student Ambassador</p>
<p>about 200 hours in community service.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I am as well a finalist and I come from a small town of 3000 people in Alaska. I am Alaskan native and while looking through its apparent that this is definitely not the majority of people considered a finalist. Knowing this, my hopes are very high right now but I’ve looked at past winners and usually only 2 or 3 winners come from Alaska so I’m very worried. I would like to wish everyone good luck and I will probably be one of the last people to find out either way since mailing takes a while to get up here :/</p>