Grants & Scholarships
Monday, November 23, 2009
EARLY SUBMISSIONSSo last week I wrote about the first application of the year arriving.
When it came in I immediately replied back and said, "Thanks I got your submission" just so that the sender would know her email wasn't floating around in cyberspace somewhere. I do that will all electronic submissions I receive.
Then yesterday I looked it over more closely. I was looking for obvious errors or mistakes. By errors I don't mean typos and misspellings - she'll have to live with those now. But I was checking for totally missing answers or those type of thing. (In the old days before electronic apps, many people's big stumbling block was a not-signed application.)
This application looked fine, but had I found something stupid which would take her out of the running, I would have contacted her and let her know the problem. Seeing how she's gotten her application in this early, she deserves that much consideration. I'd let her know what I found and like everyone, she'll have until January 15th to fix it.
The message here follows logically; if you wait until January 13th or 14th to submit your application, there won't be time for me to check it, nor time for you to correct it before the 15th deadline. I want to help you to succeed, but the deadline is the deadline. I'm more than willing to help you with silly errors, but you have to give me time to do it!
The moral of this story, get your application in early!!
posted by ScholarshipOfficer
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