S18 is worried now. He said that other kids in his school received their NMF confirmations and were talking about them over the past few days. He has not heard from school or the National Merit people either way.
All As on transcript, 1550 SAT, he wrote the essay, filled out the application, and his counselor submitted a letter. What gives? Should we be worried? It’s too late to contact the counselor today, but I think I will tomorrow.
@RoonilWazlib99 if you haven’t received a rejection letter directly, it is likely just miscommunication on the school’s part. Crossing my fingers for your son.
@MPT3D so sorry your D got that call. I am sure it’s very disappointing. Hugs to her. This really is a bumpy road. It has surprised me.
@MPT3D 3 interviews for a scholarship competition! That sounds like overkill and very stressful for the kids. I’m sorry your daughter is dealing with that heartbreak. I’m sure she was feeling confident after making it through the first 2 interviews which makes the blow even harder. Just goes to show how extremely competitive these scholarships are! I say let her cry it out…tomorrow is another day and hopefully better things ahead for her.
Dear colleges, universities, and scholarship programs. Can you please notify all applicants by email on the same pre-determined date, regardless of outcome, so parents and students are not caused undue stress and angst and to avoid daily checks to portals, emails, and mailboxes.
Sincerely, Stressed out parents of seniors
So I emailed my son’s counselor tonight assuming he would just checking k it tomorrow when he got to school. He checked his email at home and said the National Merit cards just came in the mail today and he glanced at them quickly, but didn’t remember anyone’s name in particular, just that he had two male students make Finalist for his part of the alphabet.
But he said everyone should be notified tomorrow, so that’s good news! We’ll know one way or the other for sure by tomorrow.
Fingers crossed, @RoonilWazlib99 !
Up with a cold and I’m doing this. I really need to reevaluate my priorities.
The shooting in Broward County hit a little closer to home for S’18. We live hours away in FL, but still FL. Also, S’18 knew a kid at that HS who was in the percussion section with him at an honors band earlier this year. He got to know the kid a bit, at lunch together, etc. Not a close enough friend to have contact information, but definitely someone he would talk to if they met again and, frankly, someone who was like him. He assumes he was ok and heard that kids were in band class at the time (news traveled through the band directors circuit), but he was definitely a little shaken by the incident.
As has been said, hold on tight and thank goodness for how good things really are.
I was up too @dadotwoboys Thinking of kids and teachers who have to get up and go to school today.
Our kids have so much stress. Whether or not they will get shot as school should NOT be one of them. My heart breaks for all the families who are waking up to a completely new reality today.
I also couldn’t sleep very much last night because of the news from Florida. Our high school sent out an email about it, and said they had trained all the faculty and half the kids in ALICE, and will get to the rest of the school ASAP.
I told my kids this morning (neither of whom have had the training) that they need to hide in a locked classroom if they can. If not, RUN for the nearest exit and keep running.
I have a good friend whose son was in the cafeteria during the Chardon, OH shooting (he was unhurt). It still haunts her.
@S18D20mom Maybe if parents of seniors weren’t so stressed out, their kids would be so stressed & “holed up crying” as an earlier post mentioned. We’ve NEVER checked a portal, email, or mailbox for anything dealing with our kids college choices, scholarships, or national merit. Our kids only check to make sure everything is received and at decision time. If it good news happens they are happy, if not, they move on to the next thing, or go back to homework.
sigh
No stress here. We picked schools that would be affordable w/ or w/o scholarships. And I don’t play the scholarship roulette, so eliminated any high cost school that didn’t offer guaranteed merit.
Ended up w/ 2 state schools here in PA. Luckily DD did get merit aid at WCU, has interviewed for Honors College, and will most likely attend.
Waiting on HC acceptance, but that is it.
I too tossed and turned last night. I’m not sure what the cause, it may very well have been the awful news out of Florida. I just want to keep my kids home, in a bubble. Its not realistic, I am fully aware, but that is what I want to do.
My normal response would be prayers of peace for those families but this morning I find myself fighting tears for those parents, friends, faculty etc. This is just not right, we have bred our own domestic terrorists, they are not from a foreign country with practices we don’t understand, they are in our backyard and its terrifying in many respects.
Graduation is 100 days from today for us. #mixedemotions
This board has always seemed to be very supportive. Even if people do things in ways you personally wouldn’t, I don’t think snide comments are necessary.
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Got an email this morning that we owed Balfour $13 for graduation cap/gown…apparently DD forgot to add tax to the order form, silly kid! No denying graduation will be upon us all shortly. @TexasMom18 you made me do the math…or Google it anyway, lol…105 days for us!
Yes @SnowflakeDogMom think children’s safety at k-12 schools and college is on the mind of parents today. Don’t remember my parents ever having to worry about this issue. The news out of Florida puts a lot of things in perspective. These parents (and the parents of all the school shootings) won’t get the fun of seeing their children graduate high school, worrying about how many AP classes, NMSF cutoffs, etc. Sometimes I think parents forget about how lucky we are just to have seniors in high school and to have shared 17 or 18 years of their lives together. That’s more important than any test score or college acceptance.