stherling said:
I have the same problem. My parents haven't supported me in ten years, and it's obscene that they'd be expected to do it now.kirexhana said:
I am not planning to give any parental contribution. You are still under 21, aren't you? I think you won't be able to get out of it, but you should probably call them and talk to them just to be sure. Hope it works out for you.They have your FAFSA and already know what your parental contribution "should" be. I suspect that what they are looking for is what it will be. I am sure many people put $0.kirexhana said:
stherling said:being paranoid I went to look over those old threads again.... looks like the timeline varies quite a bit (the earliest notification I saw was 3/29), presumably depending on when the interview is (April/May). But based on last year's timeline, people were notified almost a full month before the finalist interview. So since the interview is on 4/21 this year.... shouldn't we have heard by now?
On the bright side, apparently in 2002 (or 2001?) they only gave them two weeks before the interview. So maybe it varies. argh. I'm driving myself crazy!!
All this to say.... has anyone heard from them?
Nonetheless, just in case anyone else is interested, here's the response I got from emailing them:
I think most of us have given up.stherling said:Apparently I'm the only person here nervous about this
"The Merit Selection Committee will be meeting this Wednesday, March 29, to select those individuals who interview for a scholarship. Those individuals chosen to interview will be contacted by John Walters on the phone - starting on the 29th. However, the phone call process takes a few days, so the official result list won't be known until possibly March 31."
Good luck to everyone who applied
Ok, so have any of you ladies at least been invited to interview for the Olin fellowship? Surely there have to be at least a few SDNers who got invited!
QofQuimica said:I think most of us have given up.
Weird, especially you, brownie. You have incredible stats.stherling said:
Eh, I should stop trying to make sense of any of this stuff. 
Congrats Q!!! A pre-allo thread lists a few others that got calls (Wahina did, I think). Nothing for me, though. Oh well.QofQuimica said:Anyone get a call? I had a message from the dean on my voicemail this evening. He must have called right after I left for work.
Thanks, dajimmers, I think, although the congrats may be premature before I call him back.dajimmers said:
This whole process makes no sense to me, and I can't wait until it's finally over....
I don't know. I did talk to the dean today. He said he would keep calling people until all of the invite slots were filled, and that there are a lot more people that they would like to invite than there are slots to interview them all. He also said that Wash U would expect a commitment from the people who were awarded the scholarship. So he may be calling some more people still, because he is actively discouraging people from interviewing if they are more or less committed to another school. They do not want to award scholarships and then have people withdraw to go elsewhere. Good luck to you; I hope you get a call tomorrow.stherling said:no calls today? Maybe they did get done yesterday then. oh well
Well, there are only three or four of us on SDN who got calls so far, and at least one person turned their interview down, so obviously they will have to fill that slot....of course, I don't know how many people they interview.stherling said:Oh Q. don't give me reason to hope, it's not healthy.
It's hard to judge. SDN *is* a small sample, and it's also a *skewed* sample. Skewed toward the high end, I might add.stherling said:
Anyone reading this forum would assume that most applicants have a 35+ MCAT, for example. 
The one I got was dated 3/9/2006, entitled "Financial Aid 2006-07" from [email protected]. I think you need your own PIN number to access the website, which was included in this email. The site and description was:Camel said:
QofQuimica said:Weird, especially you, brownie. You have incredible stats.
kirexhana said:
stherling said:
I only just received that email (about a half hour ago), but mine says that I'll be staying at Olin Hall! I can't believe this. Everyone else gets to stay in the hotel and I get to stay at OLIN?!
WashU pulls crap like this. Last year, for the interview mornings, there were only the "AMWA breakfast" and the "minority breakfast". So if you're a white boy who can't qualify for either of those, you were stuck with a cold breakfast with your fellow white boys in a separate room. My boyfriend was one such white boy. He didn't even realize the other breakfasts were the hot delicious kind until this year!! He and his friends organized an "activities breakfast" to be inclusive. 
That sucks, stherling. At my interview, our AMWA reps took the guys out for breakfast along with the girls. That seems to be the best way to handle things. I mean, can't guys be pro-women's lib too???ahumdinger said:maybe you're not diverse enough for the hotel.
anyway, I know you're a girl, but I offer one such hypothesis for WashU snubbing you. you should call and be outraged, or at least threaten to go to your other top choice school.
stherling said:
I only just received that email (about a half hour ago), but mine says that I'll be staying at Olin Hall! I can't believe this. Everyone else gets to stay in the hotel and I get to stay at OLIN?!
Syranope2 said:
Aww, sorry stherling.stherling said:lol thanks kirexhana! heh it really doesn't matter anyway, i just had a bad day and then came home to that email and the official no-money-for-you letter from the scholarship folk
Gah... I was hoping not to have to deal with communal bathrooms till at least the fall though!
I'm sure they just ran out of space. Did you register later?stherling said:Ok, they got back to me. I am indeed staying at Olin. Which, really, is totally fine, and wouldn't even bother me at all if they hadn't told me EARLIER that they had hotel reservations for the weekend. Anyhow, apparently I'm not the only one, so at least I'll have company! Though I don't really get why they're putting half the students up in one place and the other half in another... But anyway, I'm going to be living at Olin for the first year, so I might as well start liking it
I RSVPed the day after I got the email invite! And in fact, they told me about the hotel reservations in their reply to my RSVP email.
stherling said:Not unless everyone else registered within 24 hours
ok, I cry uncle. I have no earthly idea why they did it.
stherling said:Not unless everyone else registered within 24 hours
I'd vote for not wearing jeans or t-shirts; that's TOO casual for a professional gathering IMO. You can't go wrong with a nice pair of pants and a button down shirt or a sweater. Some of the other schools had people asking if they had to wear SUITS to their second looks. You guys are wanting to go extreme the other way.Keg said:
I dunno, I guess if they're nice (not full of holes) it's probably ok. The funny thing is that I wear old holey jeans and t-shirts to work at the lab every day, and I almost never dress up, but somehow it does seem too casual to me to wear jeans to a second look....stherling said:wait... jeans are too casual for walking around st.louis and attending a barbecue? god, I so don't want to grow up.
QofQuimica said:I dunno, I guess if they're nice (not full of holes) it's probably ok. The funny thing is that I wear old holey jeans and t-shirts to work at the lab every day, and I almost never dress up, but somehow it does seem too casual to me to wear jeans to a second look....
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Ok, I am obviously overruled. Jeans it is.Keg said:
