Jack Kent Cooke 2017-2018 Undergrad Transfer

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How’s it going, everyone? I’m a Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholar from the 2016-17 cohort, and on behalf of every other JKCF scholar I wish you good luck, peace and PATIENCE!!! Last year the Foundation was super swamped with entries and while their initial estimated notification date was in early April we didn’t get the news until almost the end of May.

Along the way some of us received email notification that we were semifinalists or that we had advanced in the selection process, and some of us received email requests for additional financial or transcript information. Some of us received none of these extra clues and had to wait until the week that the Foundation announced all of the winners. I personally didn’t find out until the week after everyone else was notified because the email they sent to my Honors advisor went to her spam folder! XD

The Foundation likes to time it so that students who are selected get surprised with public recognition sprung upon them in some dramatic and beautiful ceremony. I hope that they can pull it off that way this year :slight_smile: My advice to each of you is to not stress about it, if possible. If you don’t get it this year, try again next year. I applied twice and my second submission was much stronger than my first. In fact, I delayed my associate’s degree for a year, started a non profit organization, and entered and was selected as a finalist in a national competition.

There’s no hurry to complete your education whether or not you receive this or any other scholarship. Take your time and do whatever you can right now, this very minute or maybe this week or month to start (or keep) making the world a better place in whatever way only you are positioned and talented and qualified to do. And don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t, and don’t give up EVER. And if you do give up, don’t beat yourself up about it. Just get back up and try again.

Here’s something you can do right now to get your mind off of the scholarship selection process and the seemingly interminable wait: Pretend like you already learned that you did not receive the scholarship. What are you going to do now? What is the best plan that you can make for going forward, either to make yourself a better candidate for next year or to move in with your life and make a real difference in the world? What school are you going to go to? Maybe take more classes at your CC? Volunteering? Start a non profit? Build an app?

Also, make sure that if at all possible you apply to the colleges you listed on your JKCF application. If you advance in the selection process, the Foundation may ask if you’ve applied and been accepted to your school of choice.

Last thing: calling and emailing the Foundation to inquire as to the status of your application may make you feel better, but remember that there are thousands of applicants! That means thousands of potential phone calls and emails. The Foundation is made up of awesome, smart, talented, loving and beautiful people just like you who are working hard to make the best choices they can, and they will be finished as soon as humanly possible, if not sooner :slight_smile:

Again, good luck and congratulations on making it this far! I hope I get to meet some of you at Scholar’s Weekend 2017! Laters :wink:

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Glad to see the deadline moved up! Hopefully this will better equip people to make admissions/school choice decisions by giving the committee more time to decide on winners. I’m a 2015 UT scholar, and the process seems to change year to year so much that there is little anyone can tell you beyond “sit tight, hope the best and prepare for the worst (and delays).” Patience, patience and more patience! Good luck, everyone!

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@CalculonZoidberg Thanks for this! it’s really encouraging

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@nekozuki Fingers are crossed.

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Hello guys! How many of you got selected as a semi-finalist??? I was shocked to see the email that I was selected as one today!

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I got an email saying I wasn’t selected! I’m disappointed, but this is far from the end of my scholarship search. I wish everyone the best of luck and I know that everyone who ends up receiving the scholarship will be so deserving! :slight_smile:

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I also received an email and was selected as a semi-finalist. I had just stopped obsessing over the application just a few weeks ago too. Now I have to work at not thinking about it again.

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Grats to the semi-finalists. Now the real wait begins, lol! My advice to you: APPLY TO THE SCHOOLS OF YOUR DREAMS RIGHT NOW. They will be checking to see which colleges you have actually applied to, as well as what schools have accepted you. The more you do to show the foundation you have firmly committed to top programs, the more incentive they have to select you.

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I also received an email and was selected as a semi-finalist. I was really surprised because my parents make 85k a year but the fact that I have 8 members in my family and which 2 of them go to college helped a lot with the fanancial factor in the application. Best of luck to everyone!!!

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@nekozuki I’m probably being a bit dense but how do they know? I tried to empty the application from my mind so I didn’t fret about it.

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We received an email on December 8th informing us. Check the email account you submitted your application under. If you don’t have an email call the foundation. They let everyone know the semi-finalists and the ones who didn’t make it to the next step.

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Congrats to the semi-finalists! I won last year and it has been a dream come true! Please feel free to ask me any questions about my experience or anything I can do to help you further towards accomplishing your wildest dreams.

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I was selected a semi-finalist too! Congrats to everyone who got in and to those who didn’t never give up and more grease to your elbows. You an automatic winner for even applying

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@Quietlybear Hi! Thank you for your kind words and congrats on being JKC Scholar! I just wanted to ask you, after receiving the semifinalist notification, when did you hear from them again?

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Doesn’t it say april on their website? My girlfriend just got a graduate scholarship from them fingers crossed I get mineeeeee

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@philbegas April is the target for notifying those selected. Last years semifinalists didn’t get notified if they were selected to receive the scholarship or not until the second or third week in May. Their application also opened up a couple of months later than ours did too so hopefully we will know in April. However we might hear back from them before then asking for more information as did many of last years semifinalist.

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Hey I also received a semifinalist email. Yay! Has anyone received anything else. I’m literally losing it!

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omg, this forum is back. i’m sure you’ve all read the previous years forums. congratulations on being named semifinalists. there’s around 6,000 of you, isn’t there?

i want to know everything about everybody, including what schools you’re hoping to matriculate into and what your favorite flavor airhead is (watermelon) and what you would do with a JKCF scholarship.

(@nekozuki is really cool.)

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So I got an email yesterday asking for me to fill out another form with my financial information. I hope that means I am a little closer to being a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar.

I am happy to see some of the names I’ve read in previous years threads.@optimisticky I don’t have time for everything but I am a non-trad student with my youngest attending the same college as myself. I am the president of my PTK chapter, in the President’s Leadership Program, and participate in the Space Grant Program. I am pursuing a bachelors in accounting. I would use the JKCF scholarship to finish my education, and study abroad. I also am planning on getting my Masters degree and might pursue my PhD.

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Hello!
After lurking this forum for awhile, I figured I would finally post!

I received an email in December about being a finalist and the excitement has been growing…as well as the nerves! Finally, I decided it was time to turn to this forum. Is everyone else excited and as nervous as I am?

A little about me:
I’m also a non-traditional student, pursuing BUAA with a focus on economics/international business. The trip to school has definitely been an interesting road for me. I never thought that college would be something I could afford (my parents were unable to help when I was younger) and two years ago I just decided to click the button of the community college website. I figured there was nothing to lose… I was already working insane hours, what was a couple more but on something that I loved? Even with my time away, about 10 years, I truly believe this is the best course I could have taken. I appreciate and value my education so much and every day brings a new enlightenment. It’s awesome. However, I’m pretty sure it may drive my cats nuts…They could have probably taken my Bio exam and passed with flying colors after listening to me talk out loud for hours!

@optimisticky My favorite airhead is the mystery followed by the blue raspberry! Nom! I’m applying to a couple schools, Brown, Cornell, NYU, University of Miami, and possibly a few abroad (the Netherlands have never looked so good!). I also am a Bucknell Community Scholar so I will be applying there as well. All of my options have unlimited possibilities and because so I’m finding it all a little intimidating! Still though, I am beyond excited for my new travels!

Here’s to the best of luck for everyone!