<p>congrats to all the NMFinalist! how proud you must be!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to all the NMF recipients. Are we the only ones left without word? Quite frustrating. No rejection letter, but still want the certificate in hand.<br>
More congrats to those getting other good news including acceptances, merit, likelies, etc. So happy to hear the good news.<br>
Our good news is that D had wonderful alum interview for her “tied for top choice” school and learned that she maintained her GPA first semester. She can send the report cards without worries!</p>
<p>^^oops, sorry for the premature w00t mnmomof2! I always get messed up with lists! Pls let us know when we can officially celebrate for you.</p>
<p>Congrats to all the NM Finalists. What a great accomplishment. They seem to be an over-represented minority on this thread!</p>
<p>I’m sorry to hear that so many kids are still stressed. I hope that they can kick back and enjoy being second semester seniors. I know that it will be harder for parents waiting for acceptances, scholarships, and financial aid information to relax.</p>
<p>no worries madbean! I’m already wooting for those on the list! we have a great group of kids here (and parents too!)</p>
<p>S2 hopefully will get NMF, but if they are distributed through the school there will be some delay since he is off on a college visit trip for the remainder of the week. S1 arrives back home from his study abroad in Ecuador on Sunday, hopefully in one piece (he has had adventures, but not always the kind described in the college brochures.) I am still waiting on one more piece of tax information before I can make the final push on the 1040/FAFSA/PROFILE/IDOC daisy chain.</p>
<p>Even though I don’t post replies to most of the entries, I admire all of the grace and forbearance everyone displays as they deal with auditions, deaths, infirm parents and mightily stretched HS seniors.</p>
<p>Madbean - It is the name of a dearly beloved, long deceased horse in tranlated to numbers on the telephone. Don’t know why, but it makes me happy to type it.</p>
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<p>Nope. There are a lot of kids in D1’s class that will also be notified, but they’re all wrapped up in finals. Yes, our school year runs VERY late compared to most of you.</p>
<p>There was a really nice article in today’s Wall Street Journal about the Stanford football team’s academic and athletic credentials, and for this Cal alum to say that tells you it really was a nice article. 
One current team member is an Architectural Design major supposedly carrying a 3.5 GPA. Isn’t that a major that pretty much takes all of one’s time? Doesn’t Division 1 football pretty much take all of one’s time? Is this young man cloning himself or something?</p>
<p>32578233, that is an excellent user name–I scribbled down the letters to see if I could quickly figure out the name, but it’s not glaringly obvious.</p>
<p>FlMathMom so sorry about the loss of your friend…</p>
<p>Add another NMF to the party. S received his certificate yesterday from the principal-and today we got a letter in the mail saying he was in danger of not graduating due to a deficient graduation portfolio! Gotta love the way they run things around here. He has everything done and just needs to compile it-and because he hasn’t yet since he is busy doing other things that actually matter he gets this letter. It is kind of funny actually.</p>
<p>Not really much else to report. He had another interview this week that went very well and he was very pleased. I am going to let him be for a while and enjoy some peace-he knows he has scholarship apps to work on but I can’t make him. The swim team finished the regular season this afternoon undefeated and the team is all at Chili’s right now celebrating-the next two weekends are the Division Finals and the State Finals-and I think he may have actually qualified to swim in the states-pretty cool for a rookie, huh?</p>
<p>32578233 = Falstaff?</p>
<p>mnmom–my daughter hasn’t heard about NMF, either. </p>
<p>My D had a college interview today, and, like many others, went to the wrong Starbucks. I felt bad that I had read so often about that happening and didn’t remember to get her to double-check; she thought she knew which one it was. Fortunately for her (so the interviewer knew it was a logical mistake), the interviewee before her had also gone to the (same) wrong one, and the interviewer couldn’t have been nicer about it.</p>
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Schokolade, the only time my daughter met an interviewer at a coffee shop, they met at “The Laughing Goat.” I didn’t realize what an advantage it was at the time NOT to set it up at Starbucks!</p>
<p>Congrats to all of the NMFs and their parents! What a terrific accomplishment for so many of the kids represented here. I hope that it translates into big dollars for everyone.</p>
<p>So this coming Saturday is senior night for my DDs sport and the younger girls have been doing something every day to recognize the seniors. It is really starting to hit home for both of us that this is it. This sport has been a huge part of her life since 5th grade and it will be so strange when it is over.</p>
<p>Phb, so sorry…forgot to include you and your kiddo in the congrats I sent out to OWM for NMF! Well done! </p>
<p>Aniger, you too! Hearty congrats!</p>
<p>Amandak, you’re making me laugh again. Enjoyed your little rant. Glad to see your wonderful humor is easing back. :)</p>
<p>College4three, THANK YOU for that reminder to notify the schools! That keeps slipping my mind because d doesn’t have a 1st choice yet. But I know there are instructions for how to deal with that…we just keep forgetting to do it.</p>
<p>I will send a tray of virtual chips and homemade guacamole, plus a pitcher of margaritas to anyone who will post a reminder to me (one more time) right before the (March 1?) deadline. Deal???</p>
<p>Dignified, sounds like your d has done an amazing job! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for her on that big scholarship, and hoping her dreams come true for one of those schools. </p>
<p>325, Join our happy club. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Novelisto, wonderful news for your d! And how fun that you were there visiting when the mail came!</p>
<p>FlMathMom, I’ll be right there with you in spirit at the funeral tomorrow. Your friend’s widow (yes, double-ouch) is so lucky to have you there with your friendship and support. The next day, Friday, I’m having lunch with our friend who’s son’s funeral will have been 3 weeks ago on that day. I’m hoping to find just a small way to lighten her burden for a few hours.</p>
<p>Hey, congrats to your son on that NMF certificate! Outstanding!</p>
<p>Puma, thanks for your nice words. Like you, I often think of just the right thing to say…about 8 hours after the fact! That day, I’m glad it occurred to me to say that, because I could tell it resonated with her, and she will remember. Best of luck to your son this weekend! Keeping fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Mnmomof2, what’s up with that? You’re a saint to be this patient. Have you considered calling National Merit Corp? Their phone # escapes me, but it’s all over cc and easy to get by googling. I called them in Dec to be sure they had everything for d, and they were extremely nice and eager to help. Call them! I hate to think of you not officially knowing.</p>
<p>Pepper, yay!!! Congrats to your son on NMF! (Love the irony of the other letter…). That whole swim team thing still blows me away. Very funny and amazing at the same time.</p>
<p>FiMath - I’m there with you in spirit, I hope there is something in the day that uplifts your heart. It meant alot to my dad and me to see so many people come out. </p>
<p>Well, so SATIIs came out…ds goes from a 590 to a 680 on Chem. Not bad since he really didn’t prep again. Whatever. Glad his process is over. Just beginning with dd1 - completely different child. Self-professed “grade-grubbing asian” to the core.</p>
<p>That’s great Amanda! Good for him!</p>
<p>Amanda: That’s great news.</p>
<p>FLmathmom: I know that this will be a very sad day for you. I’ll be thinking of you.</p>
<p>Will be holding FLmathmom in the light today.<br>
Congrats to all with good news. This really is a great time (except for us parents sweating the financials). All the hardwork for both kids and parents is paying off. I raise a glass (coffee) to you all.
One tiny complaint though (it wouldn’t be me otherwise 
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<p>Coming a little late the the NMF party; D got her Finalist letter (“Dear Finalist” - wouldn’t you think they’d be able to mail merge a name? - but not complaining) yesterday. I’ve barely seen her for the last two weeks since the school’s big variety show is this weekend and she is running the sound - hence she has been getting home after 11 and running out the door in the morning with barely enough time to grab the bag of granola I’m holding out to her as she exits. So we haven’t had a chance to really chat, but she did say that she had not heard about finalist status through school yet.</p>
<p>So much news here - congrats to all the other NMF finalists and new college acceptances: on those fronts the news seems to be overwhelmingly positive here. I can so relate to the financial stress since the acceptances for us aren’t as much of an issue as the financial packages. At least we have one EA school acceptance with enough merit money to make it a go - but I suspect it may not be D’s first choice.</p>
<p>Condolences to FLmathmom - I am thinking of you.</p>
<p>We were not able to access the SAT II scores today. Finally got the right person on the phone, and found out it was due to a name change in 2001. We’ve never had a problem before - I can’t believe they chose this time, when we really need the scores, to kick up a fuss. Hopefully, they will be able to get through the documents I sent them and get it figured out in the next few days, but this is very frustrating.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone on all the good news about acceptances, honors, and scholarships. It is very exciting!</p>
<p>Now that D1 is almost done with this crazy process, I have begun to think about D2 that is in the HS Class of 2013…she has different aspirations so this should be a very different experence. I am not sure I am looking forward to it…</p>