<p>Applications for the 2008 Lowes Scholarship will be accepted from January 1, 2008 through March 15, 2008. Please apply here and use Access Key: LOWES.</p>
<p>This is what it says on the official website, but it says on the SPA application that the deadline has already passed! Does anybody know what is going on?</p>
<p>The deadline was March 1st.</p>
<p>ya I wanted to submit my application last night and it was already closed :(</p>
<p>... wait, what? I missed the deadline? -_-</p>
<p>it said deadline was the 14th on fastweb</p>
<p>mika08, how are you so sure the deadline was yesterday? fastweb and lowe's site say the 15th/night of the 14th or whatever</p>
<p>If you log onto SPA, it clearly says the deadline was March 1st. Fastweb isn't always right, folks.</p>
<p>i just called lowes and they said the deadline was the 15th</p>
<p>On the SPA site it clearly says that the deadline is March 15th. Does it still not let you submit?</p>
<p>I emailed SPA (I had their direct email address from when I won the Discover Card scholarship).</p>
<p>They fixed the issue and my application has been re-opened.</p>
<p>So I guess, go check yours.</p>
<p>And by the way, this was a mistake on SPA's part, not Lowe's/Fastweb/the applicant, because the deadline is and always has been March 15, 2008.</p>
<p>yeah i checked it
its open for me too.</p>
<p>Good to hear, huutuyet.</p>
<p>So everyone chill out. :)</p>
<p>btw, the person told me to use IE b/c my re-opened application was having issues with FF. Just passing that along.</p>
<p>/thread</p>
<p>I noticed the difference, so I made sure to submit mine by 11:59 PM CST like it said on the SPA page. When I tried to log on this morning, it said the deadline was passed, but apparently now I can get in and change it?</p>
<p>P.S. Does anyone have the names of any other SPA scholarships that are currently available? I got started on this whole scholarship thing kind of late, but I like how the SPA system works (I did the Ronald McDonald House one, too).</p>
<p>SPA tends to make a lot of mistakes, my discover card scholarship never even went through despite someone there told me it did</p>
<p>when do we find out if we are selected as a semi-finalist?</p>
<p>oh and also I was looking at the list of 2007 winners. I am slightly confused. what's the difference between regional and community winners?</p>
<p>The Lowe's semifinalists are selected around mid April, I think. They give you some more forms to fill out if you are a semifinalist. There are a lot of semifinalists who don't make finalist, though. My D was a semifinalist last year, but she didn't make finalist ... but she got a Best Buy scholarship, which she found out about around the same time. All they have are some pretty basic facts, so being named a winner is kind of a luck thing, I think! If you look at last year's threads, you'll see some who won both BB & L's, but many who just got one or the other ... and a lot of really great applicants who didn't get either. My D figured she wouldn't get either, since so many apply. She was glad that she did apply, though. It's not that hard to apply, and it just might be worth it!</p>
<p>do you get anything for being a semifinalist?</p>
<p>No. (10 characters)</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up... it's not working with FireFox but it's fine with IE</p>
<p>Why does it say "postmark" deadline is March 15th, when later it tells us not to mail anything?</p>