<p>So glad you are able to get his application in, even though the school (not you!) missed the deadline. I think NM is flexible with deadlines for exactly this reason. Some schools are clueless.</p>
<p>We received nothing from NM at home, because the package went to the school, and it was up to them to notify us, which they did. However, our daughter did begin to receive a lot of mail from top schools mentioning her status as a “top student,” (we just thought it was random) long before we knew she was a NMSF. So if you have any other kids in the pipeline and they start getting letters like that, pay attention and start looking online for lists of semifinalists since your school sounds like they’re not on top of this at all.</p>
<p>Just wanted to add: Have your son’s SAT scores sent directly from College Board to the NM corp right away. (I can’t remember the code, but it’s easy to find on the College Board site.)</p>