<p>Since applications are due in a few days (save for earlier internal dl’s) and the old thread was dead, I thought I’d start one for the 2012 Applicants/School Nominees.</p>
<p>I submitted mine on the 28th (My CC’s internal deadline). Any one else out there submitted?</p>
<p>My Stats, FYI</p>
<p>Gender: F
Age: 26
Location: Clearwater, FL
Current Academic Status: CC Sophomore, Grad 5/12
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
College Type: sends some grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes, EFC=0, Independent</p>
<p>Academics:
HS GPA - 2.0</p>
<p>College GPA- 3.692
Honors Institute
Dean’s List</p>
<p>Scores:
(11/2003)
SAT I Math: 440
SAT I Critical Reading: 570</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
-FT/PT Work (Lane Bryant, Verizon, Coca-Cola, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Ruth Eckerd Hall) 2006- Present 8-50+ Hours/wk.
-Acting Work (incl. Film/Theatre/TV/Internet/Interactive/Theme Park) 2005-Present, 20+ projects/productions to date
-Co-own online handicrafts store with grandmother
-Ghostwriting grandmother’s memoirs
-Acrylic painting
-Urban landscape photography
-Blogging - current: cctoivyleague.blogspot.com, 1.5 years; Previous: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living”, 6 years, self-published
-Attempting to accredit CC theatre program through NAST
-HNMUN CC Candidate</p>
<p>Leadership positions: Co-Founder/Marketing Chair-Get Haiti Running Tampa, President - HCC Drama Society Ybor Campus, Marketing Chair/Committee Member - Arete HCC Honors Institute</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work: Get Haiti Running Tampa, Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk, Regular Blood Donor, Semi-Annual Habitat for Humanity, March of Dimes, Relay for Life, Human Society, Give a Day for the Bay Invasive Plant Cleanups</p>
<p>Colleges of Interest:</p>
<p>College: Columbia University School of General Studies, Choice #: 1, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply</p>
<p>College: Barnard College, Choice #: 2, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply</p>
<p>College: NYU/Tisch Musical Theater, Choice #: 3, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply</p>
<p>College: Cornell University, Choice #: 4, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply</p>
<p>College: Mount Holyoke College, Choice #: 4, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply</p>
<p>College: University of South Florida, Choice #: 5, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply</p>
<p>I submitted mine by my school’s 17th internal deadline. I’ve heard they don’t tell students (even if they’re nominated) until graduation. Sigh. my school had a recipient on 2009 and 2010.</p>
<p>My Stats, FYI</p>
<p>Gender: M
Age: 20
Location: Miami-Dade, FL
Current Academic Status: CC Sophomore, Grad 4/12
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
College Type: sends some grads to top schools (largest CC in the nation)
Will apply for financial aid: Yes, EFC=0, Dependent</p>
<p>College GPA- 4.000
Honors College
Dean’s List</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 670
SAT I Critical Reading: 630</p>
<p>I’m supposed to be working on final project, so can’t post EC. good luck everyone! Let us know if you find out about nomination.</p>
<p>My school said they would be announcing the official nominations tomorrow.</p>
<p>*Hi Ami,
You have been nominated for the Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarship. Although it is one of the most competitive undergraduate transfer scholarships out there, you have an outstanding application. Thanks for the opportunity to read about all that you do and I hope you continue your journey in developing into a service leader.</p>
<p>Take care and all the best.</p>
<p>Cheers, [Advisory Professor]*</p>
<p>Does your official application in the system now say ‘nominated’?</p>
<p>I have not heard anything yet, but I have a hunch I was not nominated. While a couple of my essays were great, some were REALLY bad. Oh well, serves me right for procrastinating (and assuming other students at my school would be too lazy to actually apply haha).</p>
<p>Where would it say that on the online app, I looked and didn’t see anything. Perhaps, it’s just a bit of housekeeping the director hasn’t gotten to yet.</p>
<p>I found out I did not make the cut. Again, I am not surprised. Good luck to the nominees!</p>
<p>Aww dirt of your shoulder sweetie! Where are you looking to transfer? Feel free to look me up on FB and chat if you’d like: Ami Fazchas</p>
<p>I’m applying to Columbia GS, Georgetown, UC Berkeley, Stanford… perhaps some others, too. I’ll also be applying for the Boren Award which is ANOTHER national scholarship. This one is not specifically for community college students and would pay up to $20,000 to learn a language critical to national security. Since I didn’t get the JCK nomination, I am going to make this other application as perfect as possible! :)</p>
<p>GS is my top pick too!, been courting them since before Rotstein was the Admissions Director. I’m a theatre major and the Barnard combined program along with The Core is such a perfect fit!</p>
<p>I am so thrilled to have gotten the nomination to the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship! I have been drooling over this scholarship since I first applied to community college two summers ago. I’ve read over profiles of past winners and I have to say that I am really nervous about being competitive amongst such applicants! What incredible people! I am also worried that the school that I’d like to attend is not as selective as an Ivy League school. I’m an aerospace and mechanical engineering major and I hope to earn a spot in North Carolina State University’s Engineering school. Now, the engineering school itself is tough to get into. Hopefully that will be enough! </p>
<p>I noticed that in previous threads, the posters have told the group about themselves. I think this is a great idea, since we’re all going to be suffering together, waiting anxiously to hear who won at the end of April. So, this is a bit about myself:</p>
<p>I am a 28 year old mommy of three (all girls!) and a homeschool graduate. I have a 4.0 GPA and I’ve got 66 credit hours under my belt. I am SGA Vice President for Clubs, on the President’s Honors List, a Student Ambassador, and a future graduate of the North Carolina Community College Student Leadership Development Program. I recently found out that I’ve also been nominated to the 2012 All USA/Coca Cola Community College Academic Team through Phi Theta Kappa. Whoo hoo! I hope to further embrace my epic nerdhood, and study robotics and build space body surface exploration vehicles. Ultimate dream? Going into space! </p>
<p>So who else out there got nominated? Tell me about yourself!</p>
<p>I am a current Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, I’m going to subscribe to this thread and I would be happy to answer any questions that you all might have. Good luck, and congratulations on your nominations!</p>
<p>I would love to know how you found out that you won and what you have done since you got the news! What do you think made you such a standout applicant? Any words of wisdom for those of us anxiously awaiting news?</p>
<p>The foundation leaves it up to the schools to determine how to notify the winners. Some schools call students in for “concerns” and tell them then, some schools do it during other events like commencement. In my case, myself and one of my best friends had applied for it at the same time, and our honors director knew that. I was selected as a winner and he was not, so I just got a candid, congratulatory phone call because it was felt (and I agreed) that it would be better for me to tell my friend than for him to find out at some public event or something.</p>
<p>To your second question: I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure that out. lol. Feelings of inferiority are very common when you start to meet other scholars, but apparently we all feel that way about each other. The foundation is clearly looking for students who have ambition, focus, and some vision for a better world, but the body of scholars is very diverse. Many races, backgrounds, academic fields, ages, goals, talents, etc, etc. I would say that MOST of the undergraduate transfer scholars have some kind of a story, though I might argue that this is because having a “history” does something to a person–having overcome hardships manifests itself in certain character traits which I think the foundation really likes to see.</p>
<p>Words of wisdom? Well, I would say, first of all: “relax.” The foundation will absolutely not be informing the winners. That means that even if you hear news through the grapevine about people being informed by their schools on CC, or a friend at another school, or even your own (we’ve had multiple scholars from the same school in years past), it doesn’t necessarily mean that your school is ready to tell you yet. The foundation encourages schools to be creative when they tell students, so that means some students have to wait a couple of weeks. </p>
<p>Beyond that, I’m not sure what advice to give now that you’re in limbo. I’ll say this about rejections though: it is not a personal judgment of you as an individual. I know some really phenomenal people who were not selected. Great students who are now very successful at their transfer institutions. Much like the college application process as a whole, the Jack Kent Cooke process is very selective and is, to a certain extent, trying to build a class. Not being selected says nothing about you as an individual and it should not be allowed to affect your confidence to achieve your goals. </p>
<p>Does any of this help? </p>
<p>Please, let me know if you have any other questions.</p>
<p>Skribe, </p>
<p>Your words are both helpful and encouraging. I appreciate you taking so much time to answer my question so thoroughly. This scholarship would be such an amazing thing for my family and I can’t help but hope desperately that I’ll be one of those fortunate winners! My partner and I are both full-time students, so we have two people to put through school, as well as a the added complication of smaller versions of ourselves running around with which to keep up. </p>
<p>What school did you end up going to and what are you studying? I am concerned that the fact that I did not choose to go the Ivy route may decrease my chances of winning.</p>
<p>How do those who did not win find out?</p>
<p>I am nominee and I too am anxiously waiting for tye results. I’m on my phone so can’t type to much but goodluck to everyone! Ill post again soon.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard yet?</p>
<p>No word here in NC… If anyone finds out, post!!!</p>
<p>I actually emailed my school JKCF advisor, to see who I’d hear from, lol. No idea what the next step is.
Still waiting on an admission notice from Columbia so it’s all sort of compounded.</p>