Tall Club International Scholarship

Paying for College
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I am in the process of applying for the TCI scholarship through my local chapter. First I emailed them a PDF of my application, because their website does not say to mail submissions in. Then, after they asked me to mail it in (claiming that mailing it in is a requirement), I happily obliged and mailed it in.

Now they are saying my application is incomplete because it needs a letter of recommendation from an external (non school) source. I would be happy to do this normally (especially because I already have a letter that fits the requirements), except that this feels unjust. Their website and the application NEVER ask for a letter from outside of the school community. I don’t know if I should just send the letter or point out their error. Now I have to pay for additional postage and rush my recommender to fill out their special TCI Scholarship evaluation. It’s not fair to have “unspoken” requirements that no applicant could possible know about!

Obviously humans are biased. If I confront them about the error, they will be biased against me when reading my application, and I really need the money…

Does anyone have advice?

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Do you want to be considered for this scholarship?

If so…send them what they have asked for.

If not, withdraw your application.

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It’s their money…

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Pretty sure they did mention it somewhere because I applied for this and I specifically remember these requirements.

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If you want to be considered for the scholarship we are talking about putting a 50 cent stamp on a envelope. I can’t. If this is so egregious to you and you don’t need the scholarship, cut your losses now.

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@sybbie719 my question was whether or not I should point out that the application does not list the requirement. Sorry for any misunderstanding

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@CourtneyThurston I’m trying not to be prideful so I’m just going to mail the recommendation and not think about it again, but I have scoured their website and the application…nothing about a recommendation from an outside source. I am a fairly thorough person and wouldn’t miss a straightforward requirement. My guess is that they simply forgot to put the requirement on this year’s application by accident.

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After you get the scholarship, point it out.