anyone get a scholarship?

[cookderosa]

Jennifer, that is really impressive about the second son getting so many! I was researching and figured I would need to apply for about 50 to get what I needed. I made it to 25 before I ran out of energy. Some of these essays though I did not realize how serious people get. There's high schoolers out there writing full on APA/MLA style essays! Really for the time, effort, and competition the essay scholarships take, it probably makes more sense to just get a temporary job if a person can land one. Also, some of these places use scholarships essays to just populate their own blogs. I won 3rd place on one and they sent me a $50 Amazon gift card. I literally would have rather had cash to pay to the school with.

My biggest scholarships came from a very specialized group, and in all still amounted to less than $1k. I also applied for it three or four times though. Didn't get anything the first time. The second or third time I got just enough to apply to the school. Last time I got a decent amount to cover exams and books.

Other than that the majority of my funding came from the Dept of Vocational Rehabilitation. That was really the largest sum.

I think it's hit or miss. I tried to filter them for him b/c I already knew that we'd be spammed to death. A friend told me to create a separate email just for scholarships but before I could relay that tip my boys had already applied. They are all using their edu email though, so eventually, those accounts will close.

My son I mentioned is applying through trade organizations - it's funny because I thought his would be the toughest but has turned out not to be the case. My high school son's CC has one portal that you can fill out a really (really) long application and upload letters of rec, etc. From there it's simply ticking boxes for the ones that you want to throw your name into the hat for. (ummm...all of them duh)
One thing I learned from a webinar was to continue applying through college, not just upon admissions, so that's our goal. I'm hoping for overage. I am pretty sure my son at COSC won't get anything, we would have heard by now- but he did get 10% off his tuition through Straighterline's scholarship, so that's something.

Also, I just wanted to say "hello" it's been a long time since we've chatted!! So nice to visit again.