Thank you very much for your response. Good Luck to your daughter 
Thank You. Good Luck at IU and congratulations on all of your scholarships 
Same here. IU has still been very generous with what my son has received scholarship wise.Good Luck with your kiddo and thank you for your response.
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IU has been very generous to my DD, with initial merit and also with SSA scholarships, including a Hutton Honors award. We did not know what to expect. For her, the SSA process was definitely worth it. We feel very fortunate.
That’s great to hear. The SSA was a lot work for just a chance at a scholarship. Congratulations and Good Luck with your daughter’s education at IU.
Thank you! It didn’t seem like it was hard for her - she’s a writer. She was glad that there weren’t any interviews!
My daughter flaked on the SSA because of the LORs. In the old days, if you applied to ten schools, a teacher had to write 10 LORs for you. Now, just one runs the gamut - but for IU, they required more. They wouldn’t use from the common app. Silly my D wouldn’t apply…but it’s also silly they wouldn’t use. Other colleges that didn’t require LORs for admission did use the common app reqs - for example U of SC Honors College (#1).
Oh well.
The same could be said for my son. Gifted with the pen and paper but he still needed some encouragement to complete the task. So we definitely provided the encouragement and it did payoff in the end.
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@tsbna44 yes- that was definitely a discussion point for us, too! We just encouraged her to ask. My SIL is a teacher and explained that teachers are happy to help students. And if not, they’ll let students know that (nicely). Pretty sure my daughter’s AP Eng teacher (who wrote one of her Common App recs) submitted an updated rec for the SSA. The second rec came from a community org leader.
There was a math teacher at my daughter’s school who was begging kids to ask him to write LORs. We applied for a scholarship through my company and needed a letter. When my daughter finally asked, he said to remind me often…or I’ll forget. He used the word often. Of course, she waited til 80% of the time was gone - but asked one last time and he had it done that night. Teachers are heroes - there’s so many that care about the kids.
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