@greekgirl2005 No they didn’t, he’s part of a scholars group that I’m in and told the group today.
@adorse26 - My semester doesn’t end until the third week of May and I also haven’t even decided what I am going to do now since I only got accepted to one school (and not even for my major). My course work has literally got me sleeping only about 3 hours a night and so I won’t even have time to look into financial aid until after this semester ends. However, what you say about the schools being willing to help you out as much as possible seems to ring true. I’ve actually been taking out student loans just to stay full time in community college, and last year what I was going to get just wasn’t going to cut it. I talked to the financial aid department at my school and they made it happen for me so that I could see my community college education plan to the end. I think if you are accepted to a school and really want to go there, then there are always avenues. It is just up to us to decide if the amount and types of loans we would need to get that degree is going to be worth it in the end.
@kpcosmic Congrats to your friend! I really wanted to win but I am sure more opportunities will open up for all of us 
@cmbradley2015, for me taking out a student loan isn’t really an option. I can take out the government ones, but any others I can’t because I need a co-signer and my mom can’t be a co-signer being that she is disabled and my dad’s dead so no loans for me.
the dean of university relations contacted and oh my god i can’t breathe. you guys, i can’t friggin’ breathe,
@adorse26 - Actually I have only taken out government loans so far. Mostly subsidized, but I have a small amount in unsubsidized Stafford loans. They won’t cover everything sure, but there are people in the financial aid department who have only the job of helping people like you. I am sure they have seen it all and can give options. Like I said, it is always up to us to determine if those options are worth it, depending on what we think our degree is worth, or the way I look at it, depending on what my life will be like without a degree. I’ve been doing manual labor for 12 years now and it has destroyed my body, so to me, almost any amount of debt is worth a college degree. I’d rather be paying on student loans for awhile instead of continuing to destroy my body and having to live poor and in pain from arthritis and such when I am 50. And above all else, I am miserable unless I am learning and progressing in life. So the debt is worth it to me. You have to figure out what it is worth to you.
Congrats @optimisticky you deserve it 
@optimisticky I assume that means you won, congratulations!!!
dunno. i mean, the dean left a happy sounding voicemail that said she had “very exciting news” for me regarding my jack kent cooke foundation application but warned that i had a limited time frame to respond. when i called back, her secretary said she’d left for the day and to call her first thing in the morning. which you know i will.
anyway even if it’s bad news i feel like i’m at pivotal curve in a heated mario kart race and i just received a honing shell. my girlfriend and i are hopping up and down like excited monkeys trying to keep our cool.
also @liveinthelbc we all deserve this thing. we all share this private connection of having lived these preposterously unstable lives. i have perhaps the plainest circumstances and maybe the fewest accolades of all of you. there’s no real fairness to it. i hope you all win and we get to hang out in virginia and swap pictures of our cats and stuff.
@optimisticky Congratulations!!! I hope you won! Do they notify everyone on the same day or is it along a week or what? Also your dean contacted you and not the foundation?
Also why are they telling us mid-may when they are notifying people now
They normally give the schools a chance to do something big for the winners, it has to be done by a certain day, then phone calls go out to winners, emails to non-winners.
The Chief Student Support Officer of Phi Theta Kappa, Jennifer Blalock, posted this an hour ago on Facebook today:
“Can’t wait to hear lots of good news…Tell me, tell me! Whose lives are changing this week? #jkcfscholars #cookieclassof2015”
So, yes, they are definitely done and out today to the schools!!
@optimisticky Congratulations!! I remember reading about your situation…well things are about to get a whole lot better for you!!
@liveinthelbc I just checked out Jennifer Blalock’s Facebook page. I saw in the comments that Lone Star College has three winners. That’s where I go! There are multiple campuses, though. I can’t wait to hear who all has won!
Turns out my school did actually notify the winner first, which means I did not win but I couldn’t be happier for my friend who did! he truly deserved it. And congrats @optimisticky!!
@jck2475 That’s awesome! I remember repeatedly hearing Lone Star College at Internationals last week, you guys are amazing!! ^:)^
congrats @optimiscky I am not surprise
Who else who hasn’t heard anything yet is feeling kind of disappointed? Is that bad to say?
@FamilyCounciling my Phi Theta Kappa chapter is doing an induction ceremony tomorrow. I am saving a sliver of hope for them announcing my scholarship at it. :-S