<p>I am/did. Good luck to everybody else who applied!</p>
<p>I am! I haven’t even started the essay though.</p>
<p>I am but havent started the essay or asked my teacher for a recommendation yet</p>
<p>I don’t understand where it asks you to put the Years Involved.</p>
<p>I try putting a dash/comma/space but it doesn’t allow me to do it, it says “only numbers”</p>
<p>How do I list years involved without using any of those to say which years I was involved?</p>
<p>BrianPh, I had a similar problem. I figured that they want the number of years participated, and not the actual years.</p>
<p>@brianph- I just did 20082009 like that</p>
<p>I did what Stupefy did as well. I assume either way is probably acceptable</p>
<p>we hear back march 15? thats so soon lol only two weeks to review the apps</p>
<p>Looks that way. It’s not as bad as the Body By Milk one, which is only giving one week to review before semifinalists. Kinda like the Coca-cola one, I assume that the first cut is done mostly by computer</p>
<p>^how is that possible? lol by test scores/GPA I assume? if so i’m gold</p>
<p>Lol I hope so, too, but I dunno. Each probably has an algorithm tailored to it’s goals. For example, Coca-Cola likes leadership in school activities, so they didn’t even factor in grades/test scores for the first cut (though they weren’t asked for). So these probably give a weighting to activities, academics, etc., then pick their semifinalists. Then they’ll collect transcripts and what-not and hopefully have a real person take a look…</p>
<p>Has anyone received notification for the Lowe’s Community Scholarship? I haven’t received any e-mail or snail mail, but when I logged into my account on applyist.net, it had a semi-finalist form for me to fill out, which was just telling me to upload my transcript and test scores.</p>
<p>I haven’t received anything notice either, and my account doesn’t allow this, so I guess I didn’t make it. Congrats, though, as it appears that you must have!</p>
<p>I just got an email saying that I didn’t move on to semi-finalist status. Competition must have been tough! Congrats to those that moved on!</p>
<p>i didnt make it either</p>
<p>Any idea how many semi-finalists they selected?</p>
<p>gah didn’t get it…</p>
<p>not to sound cocky but i was pretty surp[rised i wasnt a semi finalist, considering i won coca cola among other scholarships</p>
<p>congrats to those selected!</p>
<p>me neither, at least they sent us an e-mail. Brown, I have had similar experiences, but consider that each of these is looking for something different, and they weigh them differently. Lowe’s seemed to really value community work, Coca-Cola likes leadership in school activities, Prudential is all about one big activity, some favor financial need, etc. And then remember that many of these scholarships get 15,000, 20,000+ applications for a few hundred awards. Percentages tougher than getting into the most selective colleges. To receive even one of these is a huge honor.</p>
<p>If Lowes values community work, I am not getting it… unless a page of my S’s application disappeared into cyberspace. Lots of competition, yes. Tough to win, of course. But for him to not even move past the first stage?.. surprising, that’s all.
Happy for the winners, of course. They must have perfect scores and have singlehandedly found the answer to world peace (or, at least, community peace).</p>
<p>Not bitter (hey – free money for college, so I have no right to be bitter). Just really, really surprised (and so is his guidance counselor).</p>