@ascendiox You do not need to be a member of PTK in order to qualify for or be awarded the JKC Scholarship. I think one reason PTK is heavily targeted is that it is a way to identify people who meet the minimum GPA. The JKC Foundation does a very thorough review of each application. It wouldn’t make any sense to disqualify people who are not members of PTK as a lot of low-income applicants can’t afford the membership fee.
So, in short, definitely apply! You still have time, if you haven’t already submitted your application.
College GPA: 3.93 (70 units excluding this semester and third year in community college)
Volunteer Hours (approx):
100+ hours in two different hospitals (still ongoing) - CHLA and Huntington Memorial Hospital
Did some volunteering helping the homeless with my church in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Did some volunteering in an orphanage in Tecate, Mexico
Free tutoring for first generation immigrant students in my apartment complex twice a week
Other stats:
I applied and won many private scholarships as my tuition was expensive due to my status and my parents were not financially stable enough to support me. Thankfully, I was awarded about twenty private scholarships during my two years in community college that covered my tuitions so far.
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Essays (Personal opinions/critiques):
Still working on it but not satisfied with it so far I think the word limit’s kinda short.
Teacher Recs:
Already received one from my Anatomy Professor (my favorite professor who was always willing to help me out with all my other scholarship processes)
My Genetics and Microbiology Professor is turning it in sometime this week
Other Rec: n/a
Hook (if any):
State or Country: CA
Community College: Pasadena City College
Ethnicity: Korean
Sex at Birth: Male
Other Factors:
Worship leader and PowerPoint organizer at my church for 3 years and still ongoing
Although I’m a Korean, I grew up and lived in India for eight years due to my parents’ job as Christian missionaries. Living in India definitely helped me to shape up as a person I am right now and I am forever grateful to my parents for allowing me to have this unique experience. I came to the US in 2015 and did two years of high school here and enrolled to CC in hopes of transferring. I really need JKCS to continue my education as I failed to transfer last semester due to high tuition.
It’s great to see that I am not alone in this educational journey and I really hope that everyone would be able to receive acceptance to their desired colleges as well as this scholarship. <3
Submitted my application at 10:30pm. So excited for all of us and can’t wait to begin this long journey! Hopefully more applicants join this thread, would love to meet everyone else!!
I just turned in my application!! It felt so draining but so ecstatic at the same time, I can’t even explain this. Now gotta wait for a couple of months to get the semifinalists results to be announced and start preparing to apply to the universities. Such a good feeling to finally submit it! Wishing luck to everyone! <3
Thank you @kb199977 ! The reason why I asked was because I clicked “check my status” for my Common App and when I clicked on my application, it said “not arrived” on the transcript section.
Oh ok!!! So you have to send your OFFICIAL transcripts to the common app! In one of the four components of the common app, it asks for official transcripts and you can print out this form and give it to your registrar and they will send your official transcripts for you, or you can send them electronically! It gives you those two choices but you just have to find it on the common app. I forgot where !
@kb199977 i emailed them over a month ago, and from what I was told, you don’t have to submit anything other than unofficial transcripts in the attachments section. Pretty sure sending them to the common app is for school applications because all schools require official transcripts. I’m sure you have to submit official ones if you get to the semi-finalist stage.
If you were supposed to send them to the common app, I guess that’s really bad for me lol.
Maybe someone else could confirm from previous years, but I was told via email to just submit unofficial ones.
Hey, peeps! I submitted my application last night at 11:14 p.m. I went back through and checked everything again for grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. Then I rewrote my personal statement. Of course, I woke up today thinking of all the ways I could have been more effective in my writing, but, oh well. I am excited to see what happens!
@Transfersssss you don’t have to submit official transcripts as a requirement for JKCF, so you’re fine. It’s just for us that are applying to private schools, which I assume that all of us are. Also, I was a semifinalist last year and we don’t send in official transcripts unless we are a semifinalist AND are asked by JKCF to submit them.
Thanks @kb199977 for clarification and congrats on making to semifinalist last year. I hope you make it this time! How was the semifinalist process like? Do they ask for additional informations or interviews. Or is it more of informing you about your progress?
Hey @TraderJ0e thanks so much for the kind words! I hope we all make it together this year. And regarding the semifinalist process, after you are named a semifinalist, they send an additional email a couple of weeks later asking you to submit your updated transcripts and if any schools have accepted you yet. If you don’t get that email, you’re basically eliminated. But If you get that email, they then (might) ask you a short amount of time later to schedule an interview with them. Last year we found out that nearly all people who got the interview had won the scholarship. It’s really a waiting game, so be prepared to wait. But we are all in this together!
@kb199977 Hey there! I read through all of my application stuff, and short one hard transition and one grammatical error, I think my app. is pretty solid.
I have been accepted to Columbia and the University of Michigan. I got full funding from Michigan and partial funding for Columbia (as is standard for non-traditional students, unfortunately). I am going to meet with Columbia’s financial aid peeps in December and see what I can do. Depending on what happens, I might apply to Yale and the University of Chicago in this application cycle.
As for developments, I am in second-round editing for a research paper I wrote that is being sponsored for submission to a journal. Hopefully, it will be published (or accepted) in time to send an update to JKC. Ha, ha, ha.
@JellyPeeps im glad to hear of your successes! Keep up the good work. And thats good about your application, Im pretty nervous about this round. Hopefully I put my best foot forward this year, I tried my best
I think the word limit’s kinda short.