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ED is the way to go, IMO. My biggest regret is making our youngest daughter apply to many national and local scholarships. The national ones were too hard with her stats to ever get, and the local ones are won by the same three kids from her class. Complete waste of time for her.

The only scholarships she was successful in receiving were the ones from colleges like Syracuse and Kenyon, but unfortunately, even with $30K off they are still $60k.[/quote]

[b]Scholarship apps were a complete waste of time. DC would have been better off spending that time working, or anything else. Kid #2 will not be applying to any random scholarships.[/b] [/quote]

Phew! Thanks for sharing this. We're donut hole and have just started encouraging D to search for apply to scholarships. They're a lot of work and I can already sense that most are a very long shot. Maybe I'll let her off the hook and encourage her to take on more work shifts instead. She will be thrilled : ). [/quote]
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DH insisted DC1 “apply” for the random scholarships. She tried to tell him most were of the “need” variety. She did get some nice local ones (with one page apps requiring, at best, a “paragraph”) but they were based off her hard work within those communities (and they already knew her and her accomplishments).

DC2 took those extra shifts instead and worked hard-enough to get a four-figure bonus (who knew a fast-food franchisee would do that, esp for a PT employee!?!). Kept up the great grades…and got way more merit money than a scholarship here-or-there would’ve produced.

Our collective regret is applying to too many with no real intent to attend and not being open-minded enough about smaller or more local alternatives.

In the end, both kids embraced the motto to love the school that loves you….and, so far, so good!

Deeper breaths for the parents is also advised. This, too, shall pass.

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