Most families think scholarship season starts after winter break. In reality, many major deadlines occur months earlier — and we nearly missed several simply because we didn’t know what we’re supposed to track. This simple scholarship tracking system helped us stop scrambling and finally feel in control of our senior year. Why Senior Year Scholarships Feel Overwhelming Between working full time, sports schedules, school emails, events, and graduation planning, scholarships quickly become one more thing we know is important but don’t know how to manage. What surprised me most wasn’t the applications themselves — it was how early some of them opened and closed. We started looking in October. However,…