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@LaurieAbildso I hear you! We are also curious about others' experience with text services to explore that possibility - thanks for your quick response!

@leeahmahon I use my personal cell phone, which is not ideal. If anyone uses a (reasonably priced) text service they're happy with, I'll take recommendations!

@LaurieAbildso Laurie, do you use a texting service, or are you using your personal cell phone to do so? We run into the same issue with students not completing follow-up forms.

Any scholarships applied for via SLM are funds we house at our Foundation. Our scholarship policy dictates that the fund rep/fund advisors may be one of the three votes/evaluations for each application. So if three siblings want to review, that is fine, but they only get to complete one evaluation as a committee. We house a few independently administered scholarship applications on our website as a free service to our community (we no longer offer this as an option and are pushing to eliminate the ones we have). These scholarships do not abide by our scholarship policy, and we make that clear on our website and when we talk about them at senior financial aid nights. We do not run these applications through SLM, and they are typable PDFs that they submit independently to the organizations themselves.