There's a scholarship for next semester that would completely pay my tuition that was just announced in class on Thursday and the deadline is Dec. 21st. To have a full application, you *have* to have a letter of recommendation from a teacher. I've already asked two of my teachers. One says she'd love to and normally would, but doesn't have time before the deadline. The other said she's already said she'd do one for someone else, so it'd invalidate both if she wrote one for me. I can't ask one teacher because she's the chair of the committee, and that leaves two. I sent the email off to my fantasy class teacher, but the thing is I took that class from her two years ago. She'll probably say that it's been too long. And I haven't done as well in the last teacher's classes, so I doubt she'd be willing to write one--and has probably been asked to write a letter by someone else by now.
This is the perfect scholarship for me. It's a publishing scholarship, for a student who has demonstrated a strong interest in pursuing a career in publishing and is likely to make a contribution to the community of publishing. I can't apply without a teacher's recommendation, but everyone's saying no. I don't know what to do except go back to my publishing teacher and beg her to write one, but I doubt she'd change her mind just because everyone else said no. She said she'd try to help me in the decision making process later down the line because she's offered to help, but it won't help if I can't even apply.
