Confused about semifinalists/finalists/winners for Dean's List and Woodie Flowers

[Andrea C.]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

For Dean's List, all of the students nominated by their teams are semi-finalists. Some of those semi-finalists will be selected for consideration at the District Championship. The winners at the District Championship are then Finalists.

If all nominees are semifinalists, I don't understand why our team's nominee was singled out from all the other teams' nominees/semifinalists at our district event and announced at the award ceremony as if he'd earned some status that separated him from the rest. To put it a different way, if their status is different, as indicated at our district event, it seems odd to me that they'd share the same title (semifinalist).