Today, I found out I won a 20 000 dollar scholarship. After celebrating with my family by jumping around the room for a half-hour, we realized it was addressed to someone else with the same last name. When we called to tell her, she said it was weird because she had received my rejection letter. FML
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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I was supposed to hear back from a major scholarship competition. After months of waiting, during which my parents were convinced I had won, I discovered that my entry had never been received. Apparently the woman I had confirmed with had had a long day, and lied so that she could go home. FML
Today, my parents gave me a letter they'd forgotten about since late last year. In it was a $30,000 scholarship to a local master's program with an application due date of two weeks ago. FML
Today, I was accepted to the college of my dreams. Then I checked the address. Turns out, the letter was meant for my neighbor. I was actually denied. FML
Today, I went to an Honors Convocation for my school. I received a letter a few weeks earlier telling me I received an award. Surprised and proud, I invited my family to join me to see what award I was receiving. I couldn't find my name in the program. I was invited by mistake. FML
Today, I was cleaning my father's study room and wondering why I did not receive my acceptance/rejection letter from a college I really wanted. I found the acceptance letter, on his desk, also approving of a full scholarship. The deadline to confirm was a month ago. FML
Today, I was reminded that I'd submitted a short story to a writing competition months ago when I got an email saying I'd won second place. I excitedly forwarded it to friends and family. A few minutes later, another email arrived, explaining they'd contacted the wrong person. My celebration lasted exactly eleven minutes. FML
Today, I got a large envelope from a college I applied to earlier. My mom, expecting big news, made my family gather round as I opened it. It ended up being a letter of rejection from not just that school, but all three campuses of the state college. FML
Today, I found out that I owe my college a little over $10,000. Why? Because, due to a slight misspelling of my name, the scholarship that I have been going insane trying to meet the requirements for is not actually giving me any funding. FML
Today, I attended my school's special invitation-only awards ceremony, relieved that I was getting a much-needed scholarship. I watched all my friends go up and win scholarships. In the end, I only got a certificate for doing well on the PSAT. My whole family showed up for this. FML
Today, I received yet another rejection letter from a college I'd applied to. After crying for a week about how lousy I felt, my older sister gave me all 6 of the acceptance letters she'd been hiding. Turns out she's been forging rejection letters and keeping the real ones in her room. FML
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musedae 0
Awww thats horrible!
NorfolkDude 2
I'm sorry to hear that. This really made me sad if it's true. I really do hope you get the scholarship. Don't stress, there are plenty of scholarships to go around, and you just keep applying and don't stress it.
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member0987654321 0
awww omg that's horrible :(
AlyshaDeShae 10
#9 - I do! But it was an accident. I'm not very good at working these stupid laptop mouse pad thingies and I left my nice wonderful trackball mouse at home. That really sucks, though. But like #4 said, there are lots of scholarships, provided you weren't a complete dolt in school and you made decent grades, keep applying and you're bound to get something.
_sourside 0
that sucksss. call the college and complain, telling them it left so much disappointment and stress and make them feel like shit.
jSOPURE 3
I actually said, "THAT SUCKS," out loud. Good luck with everything though.
Bubs_fml 0
That's a really crappy error for them to make, I know that would crush my spirits pretty well. I wish I could get a $20,000 scholarship! Especially considering my two year tuition is going to be about $7,000 less than that amount. xD
z_vet 0
It hurts, i agree.
neonoodle 0
do you have the same first name? If not, you should have immediately recognized the error, so YDI
PhishloverA 14
#17: you're an idiot. It's the college's fault, not OP's. So shut the hell up. There's no way OP deserved it, so you're wrong. Piss off
uscscreenwriter 0
#17, shut up. If you're waiting to hear from a college and you get something in the mail, you excitedly open it. It's the college's job to mail it to the correct place. To the OP, you should call and complain. Don't bitch them out or anything, but say how upset it made you and so on and so forth. If nothing else, it might help you get accepted.
kellster 2
That's awful, I'm so sorryl I agree with #18, you need to call that college and bitch out their admissions people. When I was applying for masters programs, I never got one of my decision letters from a school (I'll go ahead and share: it was BU's School of Music). After I had accepted another offer, I emailed them one day to complain about never having received a decision (along with a bunch of other stuff they messed up on the way, like not booking enough days for graduate-level auditions, forgetting to acknowledge receipt of applications, etc.) and I asked if they had even processed my application. It turns out they had, I was accepted with a 50% scholarship, and they completely forgot to mail my acceptance letter. Idiots. I later found out that their director of admissions was fired because there were so many ****-ups with the application/admissions process that year.
PhishloverA 14
#19, #18 didn't say bitch out the administration at the college
Zoa_fml 0
Wouldn't she think it was less weird once you called her to tell her you had her acceptance letter...just saying.