<p>So if anyone doesn’t mind sharing while we wait what did you write the essays on?</p>
<p>For my newspaper article I wrote it on the Dream act, and tied it back into being a veteran in America. </p>
<p>For the other essays I talked about going from the bottom of my high school class graduating 429/430 to a 4.0 college student, and about running marathons. </p>
<p>Be nice to hear back from some others!</p>
<p>I was also a slacker in high school and turned everything around in college so I focused on that. I also made my article essay comedic and showed my personality through a global warming piece I found.</p>
<p>My article essay was regarding our economy and unemployment, and how perhaps, it is the constant extending of benefits and long term unemployment that is keeping people unemployed. </p>
<p>I feel like a kid, my article was on the sociological aspects of the chargers loosing on the playoffs, and how the perception towards the team teaches us how humans behave, obviously added some comic, hey its of local importance!</p>
<p>Anyways, I focused on my dad’s internet shop and how having experiences such as playing book keeper and witnessing my dad succeed through an entrepreneurial venture at 9 years old instilled a seed in me that grew into a passion for entrepreneurship and accounting and how I want to share the bearing fruit, with my peers the community and change the world little by little. A goal I have already started by building a book buying and selling alternative for the students at my community college.</p>
<p>Fdominguez, I love that you used sports! My fiancé would love that! I think speaking from a personal perspective is the way to go!</p>
<p>Yeah fdom I’m sure they want to know who you are rather than details on George Washington. Picking sports alone is telling on who you might be as a person.</p>
<p>@Mgoggs , @Lauraepp80</p>
<p>Thanks guys, hopefully the officials reading my essays think likewise. So I guess its either this week or next?</p>
<p>I’m trying not to focus on when and if I got it, I’m really just thinking that if it happens, then that is wonderful, and if not, then it wasn’t meant to be. However, i do hope that, similar to last year, and the years before, that some of the people in this forum that posted this year do win, so we can hear about the experience and their plans. I’m just grateful to be a part of the amazing group that have made it so far. </p>
<p>It feels pretty odd but I want to know if anyone else feels this way. A lot of you have 4.0s and I can honestly say I could have lost my 4.0 several times because it is truly luck that I have pulled through some tests with A’s even though I would study weeks in advance. I feel as though my life is almost being guided into what destiny has chosen for me. You do have to understand that I wasn’t just a slacker in high school I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. Once I started college inspiration from an unknown hiding spot hit me and I did my absolute best from there on. </p>
<p>Does anyone else feel this weird sense of destiny? That you were lucky and yet you almost had no control over the outcome. </p>
<p>The reason I say this is because I can look around at my school and repeatedly say to other students that they should study more. That they should focus on what the teacher says in class. I am not sure if those countless students are capable of it though. I know I wasn’t in high school, and you might say “then why would you be now”. It was my state of mind that didn’t care about anything. I can see my old self in a lot of those students. I can tell that they never found their inspiration and so I don’t think it is possible for them.</p>
<p>But you also have to understand that the inspiration I feel is very alien to me. That is why I believe destiny is forcing my hand on my homework the midnight before it is due. It’s odd to experience something that you might be destined for yet the probably of it happening is slight to none. Then you realize you might not even be the driver??? </p>
<p>I rambled. I hope I described it well enough. I can’t quite explain it in words but it’s not a religious spiritual guidance blah blah.</p>
<p>I feel exactly the same, the way I see it is just like you said, like every little important circumstance I reflect on had a purpose and has made me who I am (by the way I was also a slacker in high school). IMHO I keep thinking to myself how can God not exist after all the little miracles I have been through. For example, I am usually very busy with school and other endeavors that I hardly get to socialize with people outside of my educational circle, but whenever I met someone he or she either had some of my classes and had very valuable information to share with me or knew someone that could help in one or other way. </p>
<p>More and more I have also noticed the truth in the saying “Is not about what you know, its about who know”. It is so true at least in my experience but I never looked for those relationships they just came along, like if somebody had put them there exactly when I needed them. Scary stuff indeed.</p>
<p>Regardless of me or any of you winning or not winning the scholarship I believe it will have a purpose now or later in life.</p>
<p>Yeah, I have experienced that same thing. I was the only one from my school to make it round two, but my school has had 5 winners one each the last five years… I honestly didn’t even plan on applying till an advisor recommended I do. Then when the second portion of the application was due my recomender did not complete the recommendation, but they gave her an extension to finish it. I feel like I have just been placed in the right places at the right time, and been extremely lucky, or almost being guided by something else. Because, I know If I tried to plan things out the way they happened the last two years it would of never worked. I almost feel like all the events leading up to this point prepared me to be successful. Whether or not anyone of get the scholarship it is amazing to have been part of the whole experience… It will be awesome to see some of you get it, and find out who that 5% is… Hope those that get it post on how it changed their life a year or two from now… I talked to the person who got it at my school last year, and she didn’t get informed till the end of April, and was surprised with a party by our school. She did not receive a call from JKCF. Looking at the previous threads a lot of people with amazing stats did not get it, and this year the applicant pool is larger… If it I meant to be it will happen… </p>
<p>Not gonna lie… I’m getting pretty impatient and edgy. I thought I would hear back from them late February and now it’s late March. </p>
<p>Tick, tick, tick…</p>
<p>I’m getting anxious too. Speaking at my college scholarship recognition event this evening. Had hoped some other people would have heard back by now. Thought maybe they would of surprise me this evening, but think I’m going to have to try and be more patient… </p>
<p>Get to wait some more… Hopefully some people hear back by end of March. Excited for when the good news starts to come in!</p>
<p>Hi everyone. I also applied for this scholarship. Has anyone received an email from the foundation asking about whether the you had been accepted to the four-year school yet? </p>
<p>Nope rubi. There was a section on the application to fill out what schools we have applied to. Did you say you applied anywhere on the app?</p>
<p>@Mgoggs: I did fill that part out and I said I want to apply to Georgia Tech, MIT, and UMD College Park. Below is the email that I received from the foundation last week:</p>
<p>Dear Applicant,</p>
<p>In your application, you indicated that you have applied to one or more four-year undergraduate institutions to complete your bachelor’s degree. Please respond to this email and tell us if you have received acceptance to any of the schools. If you have received acceptances, please indicate your top choice.</p>
<p>This scholarship is for students who will transfer and begin studies at the four-year institution in fall 2014. If you have already enrolled at the four-year institution, then unfortunately, you are not eligible for this scholarship. Please confirm that you will transfer and begin at the four-year institution in fall 2014 and have not yet begun taking classes at the four-year institution.</p>
<p>We require a response by Tuesday, April 1. If you have any questions, please respond to this email or call me at 703-723-8000.</p>
<p>Thank you,
Beth Conrad</p>
<p>@rubi2092</p>
<p>Sounds promising for you! At the time you submitted the application, had you already been accepted to any of your choices?</p>
<p>@college77: I have not heard back from any of the college. They say the decision come out in mid April. I don’t think I will be accepted to MIT, but I am confident with Georgia tech and UMD college park. My school representative said that the foundation often gave the scholarship to students who dream to go to Ivy League school.</p>