I’m not giving you any advice; I’m just telling you that my scholarship paperwork was late one year and, thankfully, I still received that year’s money. I wonder how my life would be different if someone had looked closely at the postmark.
Evidently you finished school and are happy with your circumstance. Post marks are trivial. What it took to get you where you are is not.
Had the money been denied, I am certaint that you would have found anothe rway to reach your goal. If not, you would have revised the goal and achieved “plan B.”
Your success is due more to who and what you are than to finances. I think. Then again, what do I know?