March 29, 2008 - College Scholarships...

We are finding out more and more the scholarships available.  Wow!  We aren't applying for all of them at this time, but I am trying to file them away for the next child on the horizon.  For my oldest daughter, we are focusing on our county scholarship.  We needed our application in by April 15th.  The process entailed that we have a letter of acceptance from a college of our choice.  We chose our local community college because our daughter will likely start there to do general ed. classes. 

To get our letter of acceptance, we did what every other child in school had to do... submit a copy of our transcript and any college exams taken.  We submitted our daughters transcript and her ACT scores.  2 weeks later, we received our acceptance letter. 

We submitted our application for the scholarship.  As long as we follow the rules of the scholarship, we should have no problems with getting the monies, as the only requisite for receiving the monies are that you live in the county for your junior and senior years of high school.  We qualify on that, so our application was just verifying that information and showing our intent to send our daughter to college. 

We should find out sometime this coming month what amount the monies will come to.  We are told it will be around $4,000.  Woo Hoo! 

As a side note, my disorganization last year at this time, caused us to not submit in time for last years' scholarship.  The students have to apply their senior year... my daughter was in her senior year, last year... however we had a horrible lambing season, which caused our entire household to stop.  We didn't do any school during this 3 to 4 month period of having a selenium deficiency lambing flock.  We lost many lambs, we had a lamb nursery in the house, we had round the clock schedules so that someone was up taking care of these little lambs that could not care for themselves.  Anyways, to make up for this, we had to finish up this fall, she completed the last of her classes by the end of October. 

This disruption in schedule had a purpose.  God allowed our family time... time to deal with our farm troubles, time to deal with financial struggles, time to finish school, time to test for college.  We finished classes this fall, as stated above, then my daugther took her ACT's in October and December.  She was a young graduate, so this extension of time was OK... my daughter also came to terms with graduating later than expected by saying... at least it was still 2007!  LOL.  When I asked about the scholarship this fall, they said it was perfectly OK for my daughter to apply this year, since she didn't officially finish her classes until the public school years, school year 2007-08.  God was sooo good to us, that in my disorganization and in my stress, he allowed time for us to heal and still be completely ok with scholarships, testings, transcripts and graduation. 

God is so good to us!   His timing is perfect!

Warmly, ~Melissa

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