Partial Scholarship News!

Drew has waited patiently for weeks ... and finally news is coming in on the Eureka and Carthage scholarship competitions.

First, the good news from Eureka College. He is being offered $17,000 in merit scholarship dollars, but did not receive the full tuition award. That amount covers a little less than one year's tuition, room & board. He was proud to be in the top 10 to be considered for 1 of 6 awards, and is an alternate if one of the 6 students selected would decide to decline the scholarship due to another offer from another school, etc. The winners have 5 days to make their decision, so if that were to happen, he would receive a call next week or the week after. He's ok with all of that, and knows it was a special honor to be part of the competition, and especially in the top 10.

Next partial news came from Carthage College today, finally. We expect another letter in the next few days outlining the rest ... but for right now with merit scholarship dollars and an extra scholarship for being a finalist in their big competition, he is being offered $36,000 over four years. That amount covers about 1.5 years of tuition, so that is good. He did not receive one of the full tuition scholarships at Carthage.

Now we wait for the next letter from Carthage ... which will inform him of any additional scholarship dollars awarded to him by the Music Department based on his vocal audition he did when we visited in February. It's possible that award could cover the equivalent of another year's college expenses, so we are anxiously waiting to see what shakes out there!

All in all, he's good with the news and relieved to just know and head off on spring break without a lot of worry over it. Of course we are hoping that the Music Dept letter comes from Carthage tomorrow before we leave for Destin, or else we will not see it until we return on March 30. We shall see! :-)