Hi, I just received an email about the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Foundation. The application closes on November 3rd, and I’m not sure if I should even bother taking the time to fill it out. I have heard that the people that usually win this scholarship are homeless students, kids who have invented things, kids who have written books, etc. I am just a white middle class kid with good test scores and a few leadership positions. Should I even waste my time writing the essays and filling out the information? Does anybody know if the aforementioned statements are accurate? By the way, I’m not talking about the transfer scholarship – this is just the one for high school seniors.
Don’t really know, but I think the main criteria is need. The ones I hear about have very high stats PBK level and community/school leadership/service. Scratch that, that was for the transfer scholarship. I had only recently heard of the other one. But the only person I have seen posting is @CourtneyThurston who posts here and seems to be white middle class kid. search for her here or google her.
^ So true. We [D] applied for a high school scholarship program some years back, never dreaming that she really had much of a chance. Smart kid, great writer, but … not a great dancer or artist and hadn’t saved the world yet. Could have knocked me over with that proverbial feather when we got the phone call. Not paying four years of tuition for high school sure made college more affordable. If you think you have a shot, what do you have to lose?