<p>I'm so incredibly disappointed and upset. I put blood, sweat, and tears into those essays and submitted them, received confirmation from them that everything went through, and then I get a text from a friend who got in, only to check my email to see NOTHING. I called them and they said I never applied for a Gilman Scholarship and they were adamant about it. I emailed them with screenshots of my emails, including an email from the person I spoke to on the phone who weeks prior confirmed that my application was ready for processing.</p>
<p>I don't know what to do. </p>
<p>Pick up the phone, call the person with whom you had that email contact. Maybe it will ring a bell.</p>
<p>I did call, they just sounded annoyed like they didn’t care. Has anyone ever had this happen? I’ve seen it with college admissions but this was a scholarship… I worked on that thing for weeks. </p>
<p>Did your financial aid office and your study abroad advisor complete their respective required steps?</p>
<p>Yes. I am a co-admitted student and after the application was submitted, Gilman suggested I change the school I applied through. There was a huge ordeal over it and during the deadline for the advisors to confirm my application there was issues with Gilman’s system. Since I’ve had things like this go sour before, I kept in close contact with the advisor at Gilman as well as my advisors at my institutions. I seriously couldn’t sleep until I received an email from my advisor at Gilman stating that my application had been properly received and confirmed.</p>
<p>I logged into the Gilman website without a problem a few weeks ago. I can’t log into the website now. I tried the password recovery system and it says “no user found.” I even went to the registration page and entered all of my email addresses to see if I’d accidentally registered under a personal email. The website is acting like I’d never even registered in the first place.</p>
<p>I emailed my Gilman Advisor, the same person who I kept in close contact with during the application process, and she acted like she’s never heard of me. She was short with me on the phone as well, she said she “passed this issue” over to IT department. </p>
<p>I’m so upset. I spent weeks writing those essays. It feels even worse seeing all these people selected for this scholarship when I don’t even get the closure of a rejection letter.</p>
<p>I’m just the IT department’s problem now.</p>