After applying for Bright Futures and having my guidance counselor complete all of my additional info back in early February, I still have not received word about the award. I’m particularly anxious since I most likely wouldn’t be able to attend college without Bright Futures.
How long does this process usually take? Am I stressing too much?
You probably won’t receive anything! We never did, and come July I was trying to track it down because the school wasn’t showing anything either. After several calls, the BF people (very nice) said to tell the school to look at the ‘master list’. We had a lot of issues with the school not having the correct info in my daughter’s file, and that’s because she had two files going at the school which caused just about half the forms to be lost.
If you have filled out everything, call BF and ask if you are good to go. They probably can’t tell you that you definitely have it because you haven’t graduated from hs yet, but can tell you that you are on track. They also don’t know how much the award will be for next year yet.
Huge relief to see I’m not the only one!