Missed the thank you note deadline for my NRTE - help!

Paying for College
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<p>PLEASE HELP!</p>

<p>This is a vulnerable plea for any suggestions or advice that you may be able to offer up.</p>

<p>On June 8th I received an email notifying me I had been awarded an NRTE (nonresident tuition exemption) for the 2014-15 school year. The funds were on hold until I submitted a thank you note. The email told me to "return the thank you letter to our office by July 1, 2014 or your scholarship will be cancelled."</p>

<p>On June 30th I wrote my letter and printed it, and stuck it in my mailbox to be sent out the next morning. I didn't get our mail again until today (July 2nd), when I was horrified to find that my letter had NOT been picked up by our postman and was still sitting in our mailbox.</p>

<p>I know I should have sent it out a week or two earlier to avoid any possibility of an occurrence like this. Fact of the matter is that I didn't. I'm not sure I can afford to attend my school without this scholarship, and I don't know what to do.</p>

<p>I emailed the financial aid lady who sent me the info, explained my situation, and basically begged for mercy. I attached an electronic copy of my thank you letter in my email, and I told her that I will send it out tomorrow by driving to the post office myself and making sure it gets there ASAP.</p>

<p>I'm really not sure what else to do. Do you think there's any chance they'll still allow me to receive this scholarship, or did I blow it?</p>

<p>An honest and humbled thank you to anyone who can offer me some words of reassurance or advice.</p>

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return the thank you letter to our office by July 1, 2014
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<p>???</p>

<p>If you placed in your home mailbox on June 30th, even if the mail-person had picked it up that day, HOW would it have made it to the school’s office by the next day. You were ALREADY too late. You should have mailed it several days earlier to even have a chance to be at the office by July 1.</p>

<p>Email the school office your thank you. Call the school office and tell them that your mail-person didnt pick up your outgoing mail. Apologize profusely. Dont mention that you placed it in the box on June 30th because you’d look extremely naive for expecting it to get to the school by the very next day.</p>

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<p>In the future, dont procrastinate. that letter should have been sent within a couple days of June 8th.</p>

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<p>OP already emailed the thank you.</p>