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Scholarship
and Essay Tips
- If scholarship
requires a nomination, ask department or organization how you can
be nominated.
- Choose
essay topics that fit the requirements of a broad range of scholarships.
This allows you to recycle essays and saves enormous amounts of time
and energy. Later, customize it to meet the needs of each scholarship,
but be sure to answer the questions that were asked of you.
- Many
scholarships require you to write a personal statement about yourself.
Tightly structure your essay by sticking to the point and supporting
your experience with compelling examples. Write with a personal voice
and avoid sounding wooden and dry. Evaluators are extremely responsive
to stories that overcome adversity. Typically, personal statements
should include your academic achievements, community involvement,
leadership skills, and aspirations.
- Many
organizations favor student leaders or students involved in community
service. Other groups look for students who have exceptional talents
- writers, scientists, athletes or musicians. If the application mentions
these qualities, emphasize the talents you have as well as your academic
achievements.
- Follow
directions. For example, if the application limits you to a 3-page
essay, do not go over 3 pages, but neither should you write only one
paragraph.
- Have
several strong writers read and edit your essay for structure, grammar,
redundancy and logic. Evaluators will mark you down if your essay
is unclear, incomplete or just plain difficult to understand. Also,
typewritten essays are preferred over hand-written ones.
- If the
scholarship is renewable, then this is practically guaranteed money.
Typically, all you need to do is maintain the scholarship requirements
and renew your application, as necessary.
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