National Merit Finalists

RobD
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:00:28 +0000

Thanks CollegeHappy! I think that you’re probably through as letters back in the fall made mention of semi finalist status.

If you think through the timing: people who didn’t make the cut were mailed letters around Jan 8th (the 1st was received on Jan 9th.) For colleges that requested lists of NMFs, those were probably generated and sent the following week (1/11-15.)

It’s a lot easier to generate a mass mailing based on a list, than it is for NMSC to print out certificates for all NMFs and then collate them based on high school. So that probably explains why students get letters giving them the heads up on NMF status before they get “official” word.