<p>mmm yeah i have a friend who has loved duke since he was a kid – was pretty set on going there until his parents told him yesterday they got the finaid letter – and it said $0, so he’s now reconsidering Berkeley as an option. So sad…</p>
<p>I didn’t really get accepted to any of the privates i wanted to go to (Brown, Stanford), so I don’t really know how I would fare off with private school finaid. Though for Berkeley, I pretty much got everything paid in grants and scholarships with 9k left over in loans which I’ve mostly paid off through outside scholarships. XD </p>
<p>But I feel bad sometimes cuz I seem so set for the first year – and yet theoretically cuz I’m not that rich, I should be the one having the most troubles trying to finance my education. =.= I really sympathize with the middle class.</p>
<p>Thats awesome! Yeah im happy with going to alabama and just saving the money to go to a great graduate school, especially since i hope to get a PhD one day (and a JD.) But elks would be amazing to cover anything Alabama does not, especially if i decided to switch from engineering and then i would lose some scholarship. You should be very proud of being able to take care of paying for your education so well:)
to azn4eyes00 - not funny.</p>
<p>Is everyone talking about the big scholarships now or the notifications of the 500 national finalists? The finalist letters (that guarantee at least 1K for 4 years) came out about a month ago from ENF. I haven’t heard anything on who will be getting the big awards yet.</p>
<p>im waiting for notification about the big scholarships. everyone who is a finalist gets 1K a year (which in itself is a fantastic scholarship). they say “the end of april,” but i consider this the end of april, dont you?</p>
<p>Oh, okay. Well, there’s still next week… we’ll probably be notified on Wednesday or something… ahh.
Good luck to you guys! I’m also hoping for one of the bigger scholarships, but have basically resigned myself to the 1K/year. No complaints, though… so excited :)</p>
<p>But yeah, I appreciate Elks for making me feel special at least lols. I never thought I could be promoted to a national level for something based on just merit, comm. service, and finaid need.</p>
<p>it is nice to have made it this far. seriously though, i wasn’t expecting it! with my (SEEMINGLY LOW) financial need, and considering the fact that i did the brochure the entire night before it was due, ending around 12:30 at night, i thought everything was working against me.</p>
<p>my friend took mine to the lodge – but he didn’t finish his brochure till the night before, so our binders didn’t make it there till like 9 am on the day of the due date =.= i was so worried it wouldn’t get there. now i’m glad it did.</p>
<p>but my friend didn’t make it =x i think he had way too high of an income to get anything</p>
