@univbound101 That’s good to know too. Didn’t realize that those schools didn’t require a parent contribution. We definitely would have met the threshold! (but I doubt I would have gotten into those three lol)
There is a difference between schools in how they handle outside scholarships, so it is best to check with each school to see what their policy is. One school we looked at starting reducing the need based grant after $2,000 of outside scholarships by 50% of the scholarship amount, essentially splitting the benefits of the scholarship. The school my daughter is going to attend reduces the un-subsidized portion of federal loans first, followed by an equal reduction in subsidized loans and work study amounts.
@DiotimaDM. I understand we had that email in Jan.
It helps to reduce that loan amount and work-study at least. All packages have the work-study, depends on the school about the loan.
Has anyone’s ISTS portals changed?
Mine is still the same. I’ll be refreshing my email all day tomorrow!
Mine hasn’t changed.
Mine is the same too.
No change on our portal.
What time will we be hearing back?
what would change on the portal?
It just turned 12AM in march 2nd in my timezone! The count down begins!!
My daughter said hers was still the same. She will be studying Psychology and was accepted into the Honors Program. Good luck everyone!!!
Everyone check your portals again!
Nothing
Spoke too soon - portal is updated.
“Congratulations on becoming a National Semi-Finalist in the Elks National Foundation 2018 Most Valuable Student Scholarship contest! You have been recognized as one of the top students across the country, and you will receive at least a $4,000 scholarship to be disbursed over four years. You are now an Elks scholar, and we welcome you to the Elks family!”
under that is info on filling out the national application.
Still the same in CA.
Are you at the ists website? Still nothing…what state are you in? Where did you see it?
@Inquiring123 Yeah, the National Finalist application popped up as an “additional form” underneath the box with the state finalist application on the ists dashboard/homepage. I’m from MA.
well congrats to you!