<p>^ makes perfect sense. I applaud your logic :]</p>
<p>well, elk's DID reward us for our superhuman intelligence right? ;]</p>
<p>haha, jk jk. :)</p>
<p>Wow, I come back to this thread in 2 days and found something directed at me! First of all, I am not a creeper; I am a parent trying to find financial aid info here. I notice crystal's name because she made some posts on the Stanford forum and my son is applying to Stanford. Someone did say something about her over there. I made the remarks merely trying to praise her:in a funny way. I guess it did not come off that way. It's not meant to be harmful to her nor do I have the intention of getting her identity. In looking back, it's really stupid of me to make the remarks. I sincerely apologize to Crystal for being reckless and for making her uncomfortable.
Son's number is like m---twenty something, that's why he gets no money from the State. As I said before, Crystal has a good chance to be in the top 20 at the National competition cause she might be the number one girl from California and usually CA send over 65 students. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>^ Apology accepted. I generally give CC a bit of slack since it's moderated pretty well and lots of members are backed with legitimate and honest posts about college in general. But you're the third to mention you've seen my picture from SOMEWHERE (or found my facebook profile...either one) in that stanford forum and, as a result, I kinda deleted all I could just as a safeguard. </p>
<p>It isn't a personal offense against you jomudd. Just a precaution. It IS the internet after all.</p>
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<p>P.S. Here's last year's Elks thread 2008 for some light reading, if anyone wants :]
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/443595-2008-most-valuable-student-scholarship.html?highlight=elks+2008%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/443595-2008-most-valuable-student-scholarship.html?highlight=elks+2008</a></p>
<p>OH DANG</p>
<p>In that thread there was this link:
Elks</a> National Foundation</p>
<p>I used the search function and found my name for national finalists! Maybe some of you should check for your name if you haven't heard yet.</p>
<p>I counted approx 70 national finalists for CA this year.</p>
<p>:o so the winners are under 2008 winners? or is this the 09 competition</p>
<p>sigh.....the gasp smiley is instead an embarrassed smiley, not cool</p>
<p>For CA it has a blank...like i.e.</p>
<p>Jane Goodall
, sponsored by Lodge 0000, CA </p>
<p>No university is listed and no year is listed either. Technically, our should say "2009 MVS, sponsored by...."</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, but I'm slightly confused. I've been able to find names of previous winners from my state (SC), but I haven't seen a list for this year's national finalists.</p>
<p>Actually, never mind. I guess the CA Elks people are quicker than states like SC. I see the blank CrystalProphecy is referring to, but at least for SC there aren't any blanks like that by any of the names.</p>
<p>^ Nothing like that for NJ either. Guess NJ is a bit lagged too :P</p>
<p>Ohio has theirs!</p>
<p>SC has theirs up now.
I'm not a finalist. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't be all too surprised by this...</p>
<p>BAH! Still nothing for Jersey...</p>
<p>I'll let a few days pass :P</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the link, CrystalProphecy! Are these the scholarship finalists? I was excited to find my name on the list, whatever it means. :)</p>
<p>Haha and I'm not the only one from my school.. interesting</p>
<p>Yeah I'm the only person from my lodge. So I'm pretty sure no one from my school/rival schools got in .__.</p>
<p>interesting...</p>
<p>I'm not a finalist either. Oh well. There's other scholarships.</p>
<p>Well, doesn't your state send a lot of people? Maybe there's a lot of districts then.. idk. My state sends 7 people.. 2 came from my lodge and both from my school. Then again, we're one of the bigger lodges, so who knows.. besides from me, I know 3 of the other 6 people.. I don't think anyone from my state ever wins an award larger than the renewable 1K, but that's still awesome. Plus, we're still considered for local awards, which is nice. I haven't received any mail yet.. actually, I haven't heard anything since my lodge mailed me telling me that I went on to districts. In any case, it's wonderful news. Congrats on the 3500 and good luck on earning one of the 18 special awards!</p>
<p>Hm, out of my state's 3 finalists, 2 are from the state lodge.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck to all the finalists.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone here too. I'm assuming since we have 70 national finalists, CA has a LOT of lodges...if like states like florida only have 10 and other states have generally 10ish.</p>
<p>I know the girl who won the renewable 15k last year was from CA. But a lot of the top 18 awards went to people over other states.</p>