WooHoo!

[April in CA]

Good Morning again!
We just got the word that older son is a National Merit Finalist!! That takes some of the sting out of the $34K EFC! Much rejoicing here in CA!!!
Blessings,
April

[Kareni]

Congratulations to you and your son! Celebrate ....

Regards,
Kareni

[Jane in NC]

Congrats! Sounds like you needed some good news after receiving the other bit.

Jane

[Saille]

:party:

[CynthiaOK]

FANTASTIC!!

[Kendall]

Congratulations! We are still waiting to hear. Did it come to your house?

[April in CA]

Thank you all, and I hope all our other hopefuls make it, too! Kendall, we received a phone call from our umbrella school administrator this morning with the happy news. I am not sure when or if we will ger anything at home. Good luck!
Blessings,
April

[MSPolly]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Still waiting on pins and needles here!

[creekland]

Congratulations! In two years I hope to be hoping for the same with my middle son... I love hearing about those that make it.

[Moira in MA]

Congrats to your son.

~Moira

[cupajoe]

WOW! Congratulations!:hurray:

[newbie]

Congrats.

[Chris in VA]

Wonderful!

So, if he "wins," or whatever you call it, what does that mean in terms of scholarship $?

[dkholland]

Fantastic!! We are still waiting here....

[Brigid in NC]

Congrats to your son and to YOU who helped him reach this level of success. :001_smile:
~Brigid

[FloridaLisa]

Great job! Congratulations to you all!

Lisa

[nchser]

That's awesome for your son!
I haven't heard anything yet - dd's score was 213, and for the last 3 years the magic # for NC has been 214, 215, then 214 again. So not too hopeful....
A little disappointing that she came home and knew she had made some careless errors - when we looked at the ones she got wrong, they were silly mistakes. :001_huh: Of all tests!!!

[Sharon in MD]

Super dooper congrats to you all! What a wonderful way to end the week!

[Susann]

:party:Congratulations!!!!! We're still waiting here and no mail delivery yesterday due to snow:glare: Ah, the virtue of patience!

[Leonor]

Congratulations!:hurray:

[April in CA]

Once again - a big Thank You for all your kind words for me and my son! Now younger son (10th grade) is feeling inspired to see if he can follow in older brother's footsteps. I sure hope he can - it would make college so much easier for all of us!
Chris, you asked what this means for my son. If he actually receives a Nation Merit Scholarship, he would most likely be awarded around $2500. For which we would be extremely grateful! But the biggie is that lots of colleges and universities will award much larger scholarships to NM Finalists. For example, his current first-choice university (LeTourneau in Longview, TX) will award him four years tuition, which makes a private Christian school education possible for him. We will need to cover room and board and transportation (we live in CA, so that means plane tickets a few times a year), and he may need to come up with money for a 5th year, since he wants to be an engineer. But, truly, this means that his dreams and goals are within his reach without a mountain of debt to climb upon graduation. We are so blessed and so profoundly grateful.

Once again, thanks for the kind words and interest. I am looking forward to congratulating the next ones to get their good news!
Blessings,
April, the happy-dancer

[choirfarm]

If your son goes to LeTourneau he will live about 15 minutes from me!! We go there all the time for camps, concerts, etc. A lot of professors' families are in my homeschool co-op. It is a great school. If mine can get the same status, he could also get a free ride at Baylor. He is looking at LeTourneau, but it is probably too close to home for us. My son will start taking dual credit there, though, starting in the fall 2011. (Can't do it there until he is a junior)

Christine

[MSPolly]

We received word that my daughter is also a National Merit Finalist! :)

Congrats to all!!!

[Kareni]

We received word that my daughter is also a National Merit Finalist! :)

Great news, Polly. Congratulations to your daughter and to you!

Regards,
Kareni

[April in CA]

Woo Hoo Again! Congratulations Polly to you and your daughter!!! What are her plans for college? Don't you sort of feel that some TV announcer with a mic should come up to you and say "You got got selected as a MN Finalist Mom! What are you going to do now?" Whereupon you would reply "I'm going to Disneyland!!" That would be so cool!
Doing the happy dance for you,
April

[MSPolly]

Woo Hoo Again! Congratulations Polly to you and your daughter!!! What are her plans for college? Don't you sort of feel that some TV announcer with a mic should come up to you and say "You got got selected as a MN Finalist Mom! What are you going to do now?" Whereupon you would reply "I'm going to Disneyland!!" That would be so cool!
Doing the happy dance for you,
April

YES! April! LOL!

My dd is now trying to choose between her first choice school, for whom NM status will only matter if she is named a scholar and receives the $2500, which they are happy to take :); OR her second choice, where she can now attend *for free*.

Her first choice school has the EXACT program she wants though.

sigh.

Thanks for all the congrats!! :)

[MomsintheGarden]

Congratulations to you and your children, April and Polly!

We're still waiting to hear about NM for my dd here. I doubt if we'll find out today because the snow.

Trying to be patient here...

GardenMom

[Blue Hen]

Great and wonderful news!

Carole

[Kathy in Richmond]

A huge congratulations to everyone who's heard!

Like MomsintheGarden, we're still waiting!

~Kathy in snowy VA