Last night, Ron and I attended the Puyallup School District's scholarship night for Lia's high school. Our school district does an amazing job of providing hundreds of scholarships each year to graduating seniors from hundreds of donors and organizations. The only catch is that students have to complete a huge online application with several, 500-word essays, depending on which scholarships one qualifies to apply for. Lia had to write ten, 500-word essays which I helped her with. Although it wasn't as time consuming as the BYU application, it was a massive undertaking. So we were all thrilled last night to learn that Lia had won two scholarships--$1200 from the Tom Brown Memorial Scholarship and $500 from the Shaw Road Elementary School PTA Scholarship. Although several students received the Tom Brown scholarship, only one student (who attended Lia's elementary school for a minimum of four years) earned the Shaw Road scholarship. Since Lia was going up against many students to win this scholarship, it was super exciting news to find out that she had received it! In addition, we found out last week that Lia also won a $2000 scholarship from my mom's high school's alumni association. Receiving a total of $3700 in scholarship money to help her pay for tuition, books, and spending money for her freshman year of college is a massive blessing for Lia since she has been too busy with extra curricular activities to hold a part-time job during high school.
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