lol you guys make me chuckle
@spud199 shush lol, I envy you and your type B personality
I can’t believe this week is going by with again nothing, this is getting too late, if they received less applications than last year then what is causing this hold-back
I think something is wrong some where or may be the committee is in a debate…
@georgemk I was thinking the same thing…like a jury in deadlock
Just killing people with anxiety
So, I’m at a Phi Theta Kappa convention and JKCF has a table here. I was told the reveal date would be late April early May. Also that the foundation will not contact us but will contact our schools.
That is incredibly frustrating because my last day of school is April 28th, after which I immediately hop on a plane and head for DC. I wish they would just give out the no answers they do have at this point, because people are waiting on the outcome to make major life decisions. At this point, even if I did get it, I would still have to attend my local university and THEN fight to transfer to the school I really want to attend.
Not to mention the stress of not knowing will be hanging over our heads during finals. AT LEAST UPDATE APPLICANTS!
When I went on their Facebook page, a lot of people were having problems with the application that just closed so maybe they are ready to hand out results but can’t because they received 700 emails within 24 hours about the young scholar application.
wow this is serious, @ElizabethB82 can you find out why there is such a big time delay, and may be find out whether they actually receive more than 2000 applications please. At least is good to get informed about what is happening and why there is such a big delay.
They’ll let us know when they’re good and ready… :-c
my excitement crested and plateaued already, like the midnight release of a new video game. makes me feel like my emotional attention span is about the length of an average youtube video.
still today i received a call from a debt collector and tried to sound charming.
This has been a trying semester for all of us I am sure. The anticipation and anxiety that comes with waiting to know the results of such a life-changing decision only doubles the difficulty we face in maintaining our high academic performance. As if that weren’t enough, we have the anticipation and anxiety that comes with university acceptance decisions. Personally, I had someone run into me the first week of school which resulted in my car being totaled and me sustaining a few back and neck injuries. Dealing with the aftermath has definitely taken its toll on my ability to perform this semester, and I have had nothing but disappointing exam results thus far. I thought I could take no more until yesterday when all of the UC’s I applied to released their decisions and I was rejected by all but one, and even still I was only accepted for an alternate major which I reluctantly chose. I was in utter disbelief. For the past two-and-a-half years I was told by counselors, professors, and others that as long as I maintained a 4.0 with the amount and difficulty of classes that I was taking I would surely have schools fighting over me. None of it made any sense to me yesterday as I opened rejection letter after rejection letter. But, as I am sure we all here can agree on, life has always been confusing and seemingly cruel, and yet we continue to push forward and do and achieve things that we never thought we could. I am aware that my chances of winning the transfer scholarship are almost non-existent, and unfortunately just going by the numbers, only a few of us on this thread will possibly win it. Rejection isn’t an easy thing to cope with, especially when it seems we have done everything right and then some. But I think we can take solace in looking back at how far we have come and how much we have accomplished with all of our circumstances working against us. Moreover, as much as it can seem like not getting the scholarship is the end of our dreams, it just simply isn’t so. For every major defeat there can be accounted for a victory if we look at our lives with a unbiased view that ignores any inclination for self-pity. The victories are there everyday, but for some reason it is the defeats that seem to have the great impact on our spirit. It’s like when you have one of those days that you happen to just catch every single red light and you ask, “why does this ALWAYS happen to me?”, but the reality of it is that we just seem to remember those days more than we remember those days when we caught every green light. It is not the end my friends. If you’ve already shown yourself that you can do amazing things, then what does failing to win one scholarship do to change that special ability you have to accomplish extraordinary feats? Nothing. You still have what it takes to change the world, today just happened to be an all red light day. Whatever is going to happen tomorrow has yet to be written, but chances are you have a truly awesome victory just waiting to be had.
I have the JKC press release web page open in my phone for almost 2 months. Now I hate that woman’s picture on the page 
I was called on April 10th by JKC with some questions regarding my transcript and other elements. They said that I should be receiving a phone call in the next week or two, so hopefully this week some answers will be had!
@jrf410 wow so it looks like you won! maybe you are the only person in this forum to win
jrf410 - That definitely sounds promising! Care to share more details about what they asked?
@kpcosmic I wouldn’t say that I won yet, they didn’t say anything about winning, just that they would call in two weeks. Fingers crossed though!
@jrf410 yeah but they’re emailing everyone who didn’t win and calling everyone who won, so the fact that they said they would call you in 2 weeks is really promising!
@jrf410 what else did they ask you by the way?
@Kpcosmic They were asking me about my transcript and why there was a gap in my education (I left my community college in 2007 and didn’t return until 2012). After that they just thanked me and said to expect a phone call in the next week or two. They did not say anything about winning nor being a finalist. Just found it interesting that they wanted clarification.