<p>Reddune is very helpful!!!</p>
<p>I'm still on my essays; however, I just have to review them this week and I'll be finished.</p>
<p><em>Prays</em></p>
<p>do we need to finish the fafsa for this scholarship?</p>
<p>i think we have to fill out a fafsa for this...
it has to be done by Feb 2007, but i'm not sure
do they have a code for the fafsa??</p>
<p>"do we need to finish the fafsa for this scholarship?"</p>
<p>You need to file FAFSA for you college, Gates will only ask for your Student Aid Report (SAR) of the FAFSA during the second round of the competition in mid-April after you have gotten into college.</p>
<p>thanks Reddune!!</p>
<p>on the strongest/weaskest subjects essays (essays 1 and 2) how many subject did you guys write about?
for my strong ones i put 3 subjects and went into a lot of detail about why i am passionate for those particular subjects
on the weakest subjects i only put down one but went into a lot of detail
the reason i am asking is because it says "subjectS", so is putting only one subject down bad?
i picked my weakest subject as english, which I had to struggle with a lot during middle school due to immigrating here, but I have earned straight A's in all my english classes in high school and i have only gotten 2 B's in my high school career
do i need to write why i got those B's
please help
thanks</p>
<p>The word "subjects" is really misleading in the first two essays. Many of the students I know who got the scholarship usually wrote no more than one or two subjects in either question. You don't get penalize if you do only one subject. I did one subject per essay, and I got it, so don't sweat it. The word should have been "subject(s)."</p>
<p>P.S. Subject might not even be academic. They did not say "academic subject," so in reality you can choose anything that you have had a struggle with. I wrote about some physical "deformity," and it worked just fine. So don't let academic be your only option, if you have had difficulty doing something and overcame it, then it is a worthy "subject" to write about.</p>
<p>reddune, check your email.. lol</p>
<p>thank you very much reddune for ur help</p>
<p>can we use teacher recommendations for colleges for the GMS? and could our nominator be our recommender too?</p>
<p>bijoux, there was someone who asked the same question. go back a few pages and pm that person. or a better way is to call GMS and ask them.</p>
<p>how much does a GMScholar receive?</p>
<p>One out of 11 isn't all that bad - it's probably far better than some of the national programs that award a much smaller number of scholarships.</p>
<p>My application is in now.</p>
<p>What a relief.</p>
<p>i'm done with mines too. now i must continue to pray.</p>
<p>i missed it...my nominator missed the deadline...</p>
<p>i was scared of that too... maybe you should call them man...</p>
<p>tell them that you're in a different time zone or something...</p>
<p>are you guys talking about the due time? it's 12:00 E A S T E R N.</p>
<p>I'm sorry to those who missed the deadline. my friend missed the deadline because she thought it was 12 pacific.</p>
<p>Express mail. That's your only hope. Have the nominator/recommender fill out the supplements and then mail it first thing tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>Definitely finished writing my last essay around 6pm, and had my recommender submit his part of it later, around 9pm. I guess I was cutting it a little close? Whatever, it's DONE!!!</p>