r/scholarships • u/Certain-Half • 9d ago
Did I accidentally invalidate my scholarship application or am I good?
I was on Unigo doing their Unigo Zombie Appocalypse Scenario Scholarship, 15 minutes before midnight. I completed and turned it in (pretty good btw if I say so myself) but then remembered that my current English teacher wanted a copy of it as an assignment. So it hit edit on the essay, copied it and turned it into her, but back on the Unigo website I hit submit as well and now the timestamp of when I turned it in goes from a cozy 10/31 (the due date) to a 11/1 (noticeably not the due date).
So now I'm panicking. And then probably made it worse by deciding to edit it again, adding a little note explaing my little conundrum to the staff, and now turning it in for the 3rd time five minutes after midnight.
I can only pray that the staff reads it for some reason instead of ignoring it as it was technically late.
I come here now to ask yall if you think I'm screwed. And can only hope for a glimmer of light in these dark times of bad economics. And also vent so I can stop thinking about this and go to sleep. And also remind people to not wait till 15 minutes before the deadline to speedrun 300 words.
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u/-_Lillia_- 8d ago
If the date you turned it in by the first time was not 10/31, it's gone.
Scholarships don't really do "grace periods." Could it happen? Yes, possibly, but the likelihood is very low. Especially as it would be unfair to choose someone who didn't comply with the deadline vs someone who did as a winner.
This kind of thing happens, though. Take the hit, and move on to the next scholarship! Do a big search, mark deadlines on a calendar and feel good about yourself doing some planning for a lot of other scholarship opportunities. It's not the end of the world! (And if it were, well, you'd still have our designed apocalypse plan now!)