<p>I received an email today from April Rongero too and I’m Asian. and for people who say they do not have the GPA CONVERSION sheet, that will come in the mailing they send out along with the return envelope. for those who havent received it yet, hope is still alive. It looks like they will email from individual organizations and some orgs take longer than others.</p>
<p>extravaganza and dmphan are both Asians and were notified. (congratulations to you guys!)
I am Asian…
<em>sigh</em> haven’t heard anything yet… -_-
I am really worried…</p>
<p>Hey, I’m hispanic and I was just notified that I made it like five minutes ago.</p>
<p>I’m so worried too…I have a lot of money to come up with and there’s no way I can without this</p>
<p>Even if this doesn’t work out, there are always other scholarships out there as well as need based financial aid. Depending on the school you want to go to, you might not even need the GMS TOO much. Hang in there :)</p>
<p>I was notified too! Does anyone know how many semifinalists there are?</p>
<p>Blah…I have a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach…</p>
<p>ShaquitaPack, I feel the same way too. So upset… X_X I keep thinking about it. I keep checking my email. Nothing. Let’s try to be hopeful…even though it’s easier said than done.</p>
<p>if you’re a semifinalist and your transcript, fafsa, and other required documents are all eligible, is it 100% that you will get the award?</p>
<p>can any of the finalist post their stats/financial information (efc/income/income range)…sorry i know some of this is personal but i just want to gauge myself.
Also, do you guys work?</p>
<p>It’s just that I’ve been accepted at a really good university (and my family is pretty poor <40k) and i was wondering how gmsp choose the finalist.</p>
<p>do you get notification if you are NOT selected as a finalist?</p>
<p>morangotango: Yes, everyone who applied, selected and rejected, will all be notified, but probably not at the same time frame. They notify semifinalists first.</p>
<p>Okay so I think the big question is:</p>
<p>WHAT DOES GOING TO THE SECOND PHASE MEAN??</p>
<p>What’s the percent of second phase students who get the scholarship??</p>
<p>Anyone who knows, pleaseee tell, before we all get too excited.</p>
<p>For those who didn’t receive a GPA conversion sheet in their email, don’t worry. I just received a letter by GMS via postal mail. The conversion sheet was included. So I guess they are sending out information by email and postal mail.</p>
<p>They are also sending correction emails, at least the HSF is, that includes the conversion sheet. Same email, just with the attachment.</p>
<p>Ok people are now getting notifications of acceptances? Or did that wave ended last 2 days ago?</p>
<p>(BTW I’m Asian if that means anything).</p>
<p>people who haven’t gotten notification need to hang in there for a few more days before panicking
im sure they are sending this stuff out by waves
from last year’s thread on gms, I think the second phase is to verify the stuff you put on your application like pell grant elligiblity and gpa
im not sure how they actually end up selecting scholars from this point but i think most people get eliminated at this point because they arent elligible for the pell grant</p>
<p>It is a sad fact that I face ^.</p>
<p>My situation is a bit different, so I plan to explain it in a letter and hope for the best.</p>
<p>I’m eligible for full pell grant (4050 a year) and have 0 EFC…so I’m definitely eligible… but um this is so depressing…waiting like this. I mean I got done waiting for the acceptance to my #1 choice and now there’s this to worry about. I just don’t take rejection easily so I just need the letter to get over things…rejection or not</p>
<p>Yo for the people who received the actual letter; meaning, the PAPER letter; what number did you have on the bottom right hand corner?</p>