The application has opened, and as there were threads for the previous years, I thought I would make one for this year.
How many are applying Early?
I’m going to try to. Do Early Applications have a greater chance of winning? What is the incentive for applying early?
Hi! I’m applying for the regular deadline. I have about half of my responses written, and both my recommendations confirmed.
Hi all. I applied early. If the timing follows what they describe on the site, early applicants should hear whether they have been selected for a finalist interview by June 30th.
I applied early as well and was hoping we’d hear this week. I believe the website said June 30th so fingers crossed we hear soon!
Hope folks will post when they hear something?
Has anyone received a call or email?? I think in the past they called the finalists & emailed the other applicants.
I haven’t received anything yet
does anyone know what they mean by “rolling application”?
Do you see a PDF download option on your application and does it show full application ?
I didn’t see any PDF download option when I submitted my app.
Did anyone get an email or something saying they committee received it?
No email or any confirmation other than the automatic screen message after submission.
A BCEF-#### application name was assigned, though, and appeared under the ‘My Applications’ link.
Clicking on that application, however, did not show any meaningful information. Neither did clicking on the .pdf, print, or email buttons (the .pdf was just the app name and some gobbledygook). We were briefly concerned that her application had not uploaded correctly, but a phone call to BCEF confirmed that all had been received.
All appears ok, the site is just limited. Good luck to all.
Thank you for the information. I saw a blank page named BCEF_#### on ‘my application’ link as well, which concerned me a lot.
I had some technical difficulties and scraped in at the last minute, but they helped me in very graciously. Does anyone have any information on past winners? Do we have access to essays/resumes/activities they were involved with?
There are small bios of the 2017 and 2018 winners on the website.
has anyone gotten finalist notifications yet?
Not me… I’m a little worried but I’m consoled by the fact that no one else has either; on their website I think they just said the wave of notifications would go out in the fall. November technically counts as fall, right? Just gotta pray and see.
At least some calls were made today! Congrats to all those moving on!!
does anybody know how long do they take to notify all the finalists usually? Has anyone called the foundation and asked directly if they’re a finalist or not?