Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Scholarship

How many have Scholar as their status? Just wondering how many of us.

Well, thereā€™s @EarlyAction2020, you (@dprice386) and me. So 3 so far

Iā€™ve heard from about 6 people so far. I wouldnā€™t be very surprised if any of them were actually named Scholars. So the portal listing could be accurate. BUT, wait for official word. As someone who was rejected from a few things at the last minute last year, itā€™s crushing. Wait until itā€™s set in stone to celebrate.

@awakeningvenus

That sounds great!!

This scholarship was honestly the difference between UC San Diego and community college for me. Iā€™ve been doing scholarships since sophomore year and somehow or other I just couldnā€™t snag a scholarship (like @CourtneyThurston mentioned, Iā€™ve been rejected last minute) that would allow me the opportunity to go to a UC.

@textbooksmartie Good luck! UCā€™s are hella expensive, but they sound amazing. My friend and I were accepted to San Diego as well, but itā€™s completely out of consideration because of money. At this point, I went ahead and put in my deposit for Rollins College because itā€™d be hard to justify passing it up. Iā€™m waiting on a few scholarship decisions still, but honestly theyā€™re all long shots - like JKC.

@awakeningvenus Iā€™ll point out again that I was named semifinalist and had no update on my portal to even that status, so the status isnā€™t even 100% accurate already, not even taking into account potential listed finalists.

copy and paste this URL: https://application.jkcf.org/login/ then type your username and password

EDIT: Removed. Thought the link went somewhere else.

I believe they changed everyoneā€™s status back to Complete because people asked about it.

My portal changed back to saying complete now. Looks like we canā€™t get too excited.

Thanks, @MasterLillyclaw that makes me feel better. :slight_smile: I ought to be optimistic.

I called today and they still said ā€œin the coming weeks weā€™ll notify everyoneā€
I also asked if we didnā€™t receive any requests for additional information if we were out of the running and the woman told me that they are still actively reviewing files and that Iā€™m -not- (necessarily) out of the running because I never got a request. So stay positive peopleā€¦ anything can happen! Positive Thoughts = Positive Outcomes

Anyone called or heard anything? Transfer scholarship decisions have been made and decisions are starting to be sent.

Not a word.

They are starting to call the awardeesā€¦

@nonetaken how do you know??

They called me around 2 pm today and told me I was selected as a recipient, but I donā€™t think they have notified everyone yetā€¦ not 100% sure

Congrats to you @dprice386 ! We did not get the call, but after our semifinalist notification, we were not asked for additional info, my Dā€™s portal never changed etc. we are not surprised. We were also at the higher end of the allowable income scale. Congrats again!

Congratulations @dprice386!

Congratulations!!!

@dprice386