Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Scholarship

How many have Scholar as their status? Just wondering how many of us.

Well, there’s @EarlyAction2020, you (@dprice386) and me. So 3 so far

I’ve heard from about 6 people so far. I wouldn’t be very surprised if any of them were actually named Scholars. So the portal listing could be accurate. BUT, wait for official word. As someone who was rejected from a few things at the last minute last year, it’s crushing. Wait until it’s set in stone to celebrate.

@awakeningvenus

That sounds great!!

This scholarship was honestly the difference between UC San Diego and community college for me. I’ve been doing scholarships since sophomore year and somehow or other I just couldn’t snag a scholarship (like @CourtneyThurston mentioned, I’ve been rejected last minute) that would allow me the opportunity to go to a UC.

@textbooksmartie Good luck! UC’s are hella expensive, but they sound amazing. My friend and I were accepted to San Diego as well, but it’s completely out of consideration because of money. At this point, I went ahead and put in my deposit for Rollins College because it’d be hard to justify passing it up. I’m waiting on a few scholarship decisions still, but honestly they’re all long shots - like JKC.

@awakeningvenus I’ll point out again that I was named semifinalist and had no update on my portal to even that status, so the status isn’t even 100% accurate already, not even taking into account potential listed finalists.

copy and paste this URL: https://application.jkcf.org/login/ then type your username and password

EDIT: Removed. Thought the link went somewhere else.

I believe they changed everyone’s status back to Complete because people asked about it.

My portal changed back to saying complete now. Looks like we can’t get too excited.

Thanks, @MasterLillyclaw that makes me feel better. :slight_smile: I ought to be optimistic.

I called today and they still said ā€œin the coming weeks we’ll notify everyoneā€
I also asked if we didn’t receive any requests for additional information if we were out of the running and the woman told me that they are still actively reviewing files and that I’m -not- (necessarily) out of the running because I never got a request. So stay positive people… anything can happen! Positive Thoughts = Positive Outcomes

Anyone called or heard anything? Transfer scholarship decisions have been made and decisions are starting to be sent.

Not a word.

They are starting to call the awardees…

@nonetaken how do you know??

They called me around 2 pm today and told me I was selected as a recipient, but I don’t think they have notified everyone yet… not 100% sure

Congrats to you @dprice386 ! We did not get the call, but after our semifinalist notification, we were not asked for additional info, my D’s portal never changed etc. we are not surprised. We were also at the higher end of the allowable income scale. Congrats again!

Congratulations @dprice386!

Congratulations!!!

@dprice386