But don’t recipients typically hear back before those who did not? If everyone will know by, in essence, the end of next week, someone must be hearing back before then.
Regardless, I am so, so done. I need to know where or if I will be attending school next semester. I need to be able to tell schools if I was accepted or rejected - there is at least one that is stalling making an admissions decision, but there is only so much they can do. I want to be accommodating of how hard they are working, and I so sincerely appreciate their labor, but I simply wish they would let those who are out of the running know.
Hi everyone,
I’ve never posted on here, but I thought I’d let everyone know that the last time I heard from the Cooke foundation was April 26th. They emailed me and asked me to send the schools I’d been accepted to along with my fall 2015 transcript. I hope this helps as an update.
@LostUber When I am not on the verge of crying, I am laughing at the absurdity of it all.
Alas, as much as the phone war does sound like a good idea, I don’t know how I feel about driving those poor reps. up a wall. That being said, it would most surely be effective. I do hope, at least, they realize how disruptive this is.
@Isla45 Hello and welcome to the forum (as well as all of our newcomers)! A few of us here received that email, as well, and have been pondering its meaning. I hope the Higher Ed. Coordinator who sent it will have news or at least an update for us soon.
Did you receive an earlier request for financial info, too?
@Isla45 Thank you for that information. From what we have been able to tell, all those who received the latest email also had received the financial form. It is not worth speculating on the significance of that at this point, but it is an interesting tidbit.
But sincerely, welcome to the boards. As you can see, it is a combination of venting, sharing accomplishments/acceptances, and silliness that comes from this prolonged wait.
@LostUber I posed this plan to my adviser, and her response was: “They will not cave to pressure. They will simply collapse in functioning. Please do not do this.”
I am simply trying to power through these last couple of weeks, with the hope my two remaining top choice schools are willing to hold off.
i’m telling you, some of your lives are going to change in a finger snap.
you’ll be stuck with people like me and @nekozuki for the rest of your lives, even after you graduate. you’ll touch down in virginia where it will become obvious that this award is larger than you realized. some of you will receive a generous spread in your local paper or even make it to national headlines. you’re pretty much guaranteed to have one of the most surreal summers of your life.
and for those of you who do not receive the award, the cooke foundation will continue to advocate on your behalf, pushing for comprehensive education reform and forming strategies to close the national opportunity gap in higher ed.
but in regards to @ForestryGuy’s comments, here are some suggestions:
speak with the cooke foundation about deferring your award to the spring or next fall when you're more likely to be admitted to the school of your choice
email the admissions department at the school of your choice explaining your situation. this worked for me last year. the university of chicago initially shot me down but later reversed their decision and allowed me to apply in late may. i emailed the university of michigan in june and managed to get them to review my application several months after their deadlines had expired. the JKCF award is a great bargaining tool.
apply for schools with rolling admissions or search online for schools with late deadlines. there are some terrific options.
maybe you’re all so smart, they just can’t decide. maybe somebody filibustered. i don’t know what happened. assuming they began with several thousand applications and have slowly narrowed the pool down to a couple hundred, it could just be boring technical issues or some kind of juicy in-house politics. i’m hoping for the latter.
i hear things were going smoothly until an undisclosed member of the selection committee lost his contact lens and they’ve spent these past three weeks combing the carpet looking for it.
but i’ve also heard that sacrificial spring lambs were in short supply, so somebody tried to pass a different hooved animal in for the ritual and it made the scholarship gods reeaaally angry.
One of our semifinalist’s bets was on a notification tomorrow. It seems that is unlikely in light of recent communications, but we will see.
@optimisticky That semifinalist’s running joke is that they simply couldn’t decide so have decided to award no scholarships this year.
I actually highly doubt that they are still selecting applicants - all signs point to that not being the case. That does make the delay somewhat incomprehensible, but who knows. Were the College Scholars delayed, as well? Maybe they are trying to situate them first. I also know that there was a three day foundation meeting last week that might have delayed procedural occurrences.
@LostUber@optimisticky You misheard about his contact lenses. In actuality, they have been scouring the floor for spare change fallen from committee meetings past.
My guess is the zombie apocolypse. I mean, we all knew it was coming, right? JKCF used what would have been the 85 UTS rewards to pay for high end weaponry and shelter. The scholarship is no longer worth 40k, its for deciding who will be The Champion of the Human Race in an all out zombie arena.
