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In case anyone was wondering- filling out financial forms for your college student is just like running through a field of daisies bathed in beautiful sunshine while wearing a twirly-swirly dress and eating chocolate.
Oh, wait- no, I was thinking of something else. Financial forms are whatever is the exact opposite of the above. Add in the whole privacy issue- where a parent has to have magical incantations performed on a night with a full moon before being allowed access to the records for which they are financial responsible- and your head starts to gently throb.
Last week I received an official letter informing my daughter that she would not be eligible in 2014-2015 for their scholarship. My daughter has a boatload of scholarships, I scrambled trying to figure out the issue- trying to figure out which scholarship this was and how much a money loss it meant. The acronym listed on the letter rang no bells and made no sense.
I re-updated our FAFSA. I re-checked and re-checked FAFSA.
Finally, today I reached someone who transferred me several places and reached a human woman willing to discuss my daughter's accounts and scholarships but only after I did a rain dance in my living room and answered her questions with the name Rumplestiltskins.
The answer? The notice was for a scholarship my daughter had, in fact, never been awarded in the first place.
A sort of scholarship Naaa Na Na Naaa Naaa?
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In case anyone was wondering- filling out financial forms for your college student is just like running through a field of daisies bathed in beautiful sunshine while wearing a twirly-swirly dress and eating chocolate.
Oh, wait- no, I was thinking of something else. Financial forms are whatever is the exact opposite of the above. Add in the whole privacy issue- where a parent has to have magical incantations performed on a night with a full moon before being allowed access to the records for which they are financial responsible- and your head starts to gently throb.
Last week I received an official letter informing my daughter that she would not be eligible in 2014-2015 for their scholarship. My daughter has a boatload of scholarships, I scrambled trying to figure out the issue- trying to figure out which scholarship this was and how much a money loss it meant. The acronym listed on the letter rang no bells and made no sense.
I re-updated our FAFSA. I re-checked and re-checked FAFSA.
Finally, today I reached someone who transferred me several places and reached a human woman willing to discuss my daughter's accounts and scholarships but only after I did a rain dance in my living room and answered her questions with the name Rumplestiltskins.
The answer? The notice was for a scholarship my daughter had, in fact, never been awarded in the first place.
A sort of scholarship Naaa Na Na Naaa Naaa?
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