Jack Kent Cooke 2018-2019 Undergradate Transfer Scholarship

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Hey there ambitious community college students! Whether you’ve known of the amazing scholarship since you started your college career, or just recently found out about it, the time is approaching to start filling out the application!

Their website ( http://www.jkcf.org/scholarship-programs/undergraduate-transfer/ ) has a wealth of very useful information about the application process as well as tips on writing your transfer applications!

Good luck to all of you, it’s going to be quite a long road ahead of us, but I’m sure it won’t be as stressful if we can walk down it with company.

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If any of you would like to break the ice by sharing a little bit about yourselves, feel free to do so! You can use the following template, or just write normally.

University: (your top picks)

Stats

College GPA:

Volunteer Hours (approx):

Other stats:

Subjective

Essays (Personal opinions/critiques):

Teacher Recs:

Other Rec:

Hook (if any):

State or Country:

Community College:

Ethnicity:

Sex at Birth:

Other Factors:

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It may be a bit early to answer some of those questions. My community college had two JKC scholars last year, so I’ll be sure to get in touch with them and share some insider tips on the whole process. I don’t know if the essay prompts change year to year, but I can also get last year’s prompts if that helps!

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I’m applying to the scholarship this year. I’ll share my stats when the actual scholarship application opens.

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Hey Everyone. I can’t wait to meet everyone on the forum who is applying this year. I have browsed past forums…Hopefully we have some past recipients join the conversation as well!
I wanted to introduce myself by sharing some of my stats.
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: White
Age: 27
I am currently enrolled at a community college in Texas. I’m at 48 credit hours.
GPA: 4.0
Top University choices: Georgetown, USC, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, Northeastern, and UT Austin.
Major: Business (Depending on the school I end up at, either International Business or Marketing)

I am a scholarship recipient at my current CC for returning adult women to college.
A few honors college classes.
Vice President of Public Relations at my school’s Phi Theta Kappa chapter.
New student orientation leader (campus tour leader and presentation leader)
Volunteer as a mentor to an at-risk high school student
Volunteer with an outreach program for my CC
Active member in a few other clubs on campus
I attended the global citizenship seminar in Salzburg Austria this past May and I am working on implementing a panel discussion on campus that highlights privacy issues and concerns on a global scale.

Income: Very low yearly income and one living parent who is on disability.

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Alright you lovely folks, the application has officially opened!
All concerns, venting, and suggestions can be directed here :))

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Thankyou @AGoodFloridian for opening this thread up. I was a semifinalist last year and I’m re-applying this year. Good luck guys!!

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This is so exciting!
I can’t wait to compete with you guys. I am sure you are all wonderful students.

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@elhanhzos Definitely! How are you all doing with your applications? We got a little over a month left.
I’m still drafting my essays, but I’ve fortunately secured the recommendation letters. Is there a lot of coverage of the JKC scholarship at your community colleges?

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I finished with the Narrative Essay and secured one of the recommendation letters. I’m still waiting for the other professor to finish with the recommendation form. Also, I have to finish with other parts of the application like Why I constructed the list of the universities I want to transfer to. Other than that everything seems to be going great.
To answer your question about the coverage of JKC scholarship at my community college, I would say it is non-existence, no one knows about it except a few faculty members. I’ll keep you guys updated.
Wish you all good luck.

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Sex: Male.
Ethnicity: African American.
Age: 30.
Currently enrolled at a community college in Louisville KY.
35 Credit Hours.
GPA: 3.8
Top University choices: University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology, New York University, & UT Austin.
Major: Computer Science.
Volunteer Hours: 25.
My essay talks about how I transitioned to US after facing a hardship in my home country.
Income: very low.
Teacher Rec: my English & math professors.

  • Dean’s list 3 consecutive semesters.
  • Outstanding Community Achievement Award.
  • President of a Student Association.
  • Vice President of my community.
  • Executive Director for an Athletic Club.
  • Tutor for middle school students.
  • Member of Phi Theta Kappa.
  • Board member of the Black Student Union at my college.

Again, I wish you all the best luck in this year, and hopefully we could meet one day and share more experiences.

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It sounds like you’re a great candidate for the JKC scholarship, @mohamedali0923 ! From what I’ve noticed the Foundation appreciates achieving students who have been through difficult ordeals in their lives yet still persevered with strong grades and community involvement. One of last year’s winners at my college is a full time mother, student, employee. Heavily involved on campus, honors student… Doing this and doing that- all while keeping a 4.0 GPA. Remarkable person on all accounts.

It’s strange your CC doesn’t promote the scholarship too much… Mine does it to a certain extent, especially towards the Honor’s students. The college has a seminar on it every year.

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As I said before, I am very excited for this scholarship. I wish good luck to all of you!
University: (your top picks)
My dream is schools has always been MIT
I will also apply to Stanford and UC Berkeley

Stats
GPA: 3.8
Male
My major is Energy Engineering
12hr / week I think I have more than 200 hrs of volunteering

Teacher Recs: My Physics and my Circuits professor will write my letters
I am recipient of the Pan-American Round Table Scholarship
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Undergraduate Scholarship
National Science Fund Grant
Dean List during every semester
A couple of club certificates for Leadership
I will talk about my experiences in Honduras and how I started an org that supported kids from vulnerable areas of Tegucigalpa .

I was Secretary of Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society
Member of the Center for Science Excellence
Volunteer at Metas where I mentor underrepresented middle school students.
I am a Math, Physics PLTL tutor
I am also member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and Society of Mexican American Scientists and Engineers where I attended several National and Regional Conferences
Finalized the Puente project
Part time job at Starbucks
Volunteered with We Share Solar, building solar suitcases to ship them to energy deprived communities in Africa
I am an independent student doing less than 9K at year

I came to the US four years ago without knowing any English and I have made my way through because I’d love to do research on new generation of solar cells, I will be applying to Lawrence National Lab, hopefully I will get an internship.

My college doesn’t not promote this Scholarship but I made sure to pass the voice, I really hope that if not me, a student from my community college will be one of the recipients of this scholarship.

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Just went through some of last year’s threads and oh boy did they have it rough! Their decisions took longer than expected to come out so there were about 80 pages of anxiety, frustration, motivation… There were a lot more people on that thread though.

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Less than two weeks for the deadline wish you good luck!

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We had two previous scholars stop by today to give a workshop about the scholarship. The biggest piece of advice they gave is to have plenty of trusted people to look over your essays. They stressed that you shouldn’t have all of them reviewing the essays together, but instead one after the other. The idea is to polish it as much as possible.

12 days until our ride starts!

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Next week we have a representative from the Foundation giving a seminar on the scholarship too, so I’ll be sure to stop by here and tell y’all any important advice/tips s/he happens to have.

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Wow, that sounds awesome, the cover for this scholarship at my C.C has been negligible.

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I followed these slides https://www.saddleback.edu/uploads/honors/pdf/new_ut_ppt_16-17_niajelborz.pdf , they came in handy when I was writing the last essay.

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Hi Guys,

Been following the JCK scholarship since I started CC and am excited to be applying.

Info below. Good luck to us all!

University:

Stanford (Stretch), Political Science/Economics

U.C. Berkeley (Realistic, Top Target), Economics/Political Economy

Columbia University GS (If I don’t get into CAL), Information Science & Economy

Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business, Economics

U.C. Santa Cruz, Transfer Admissions Guarantee, Business Management Economics
Stats

Also applying to:
UCSD
UCLA
Harvard/Yale

College GPA: 3.78

Volunteer Hours (approx): 20

Essays (Personal opinions/critiques):

Teacher Recs: Strong Recs from doctorate level Professors, Poli Sci Professor was a Rhodes Scholar, Econ Professor has his PhD from M.I.T.

My Poli Sci professor wrote me a letter of rec that helped me win a scholarship from my CCC that netted me an all expenses paid study abroad trip for 2018.

State or Country: California

Community College: Bay Area CCC

Other Factors: Dropped out of high school with 1.1 GPA senior year due to family issues, went straight into workforce and was constantly promoted at every employer I worked for. Diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at age 26, 3 years ago cancer free now. Have taken 4 honors classes so far with a 5th one planned for Winter 2018.