Winning college scholarships is much like playing a game. Your opponents are other students that would like to win as much as you do, maybe even more than you do. What you need to do is learn how to make your scholarship applications stand out by putting together a scholarship application that makes the judges sit up and take notice.
Envision it. All the judges are seated at a large table with piles of scholarship application materials sitting in front of them. The applications are in high piles, paper-clipped or stapled together holding high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and all the other required materials that the scholarship application required. One by one, each judge starts reading the applications and passing them around the table. Often, as a judge is flipping through each application packet, pages of the materials fall out as staples come apart. The pages slip out of the judges fingers and slowly find the floor. The judge wonders what student wrote the essay that he picks up. He sees no name on it. It gets tossed into the trash. One down, several more to go.
As another judge is reading an essay, he suddenly stops and throws the whole application into the trash. It has too many words. The guidelines specifically said 550 words or less. Not 575, not 600, simply 550 or less.
While one judge is reading through the scholarship application form, he slowly brings it closer and closer to his face. He squints his eyes, tries to decipher the print, and then places the whole application into the trash. Forms that are filled out by hand and not typed are very often hard to read, ink-smudged, and time consuming. Now you get the picture?
A judge who has been quickly skimming through his pile of applications suddenly stops and is compelled to take a closer look at the next application packet in the pile. It is neatly arranged in a shiny, black folder. It has the name of the applicant and the name of the scholarship typed on a label on the outside of the folder. He opens up the folder and can't help but smile as he notices the wallet-sized picture of the student taped neatly to the inside flap of the folder. As he pulls out the required documents, he sees that each one is neatly labeled with the student's name, address, and phone number. All documents are in the order in which the scholarship rules requested. No material is missing. Also included is a neatly typed scholarship resume. This resume shares the student's academic success as shown by awards received, G.P.A, class rank, and more. It also documents and explains his part-time job requirements, volunteer and community service hours, and is clearly labeled with the student's name, phone number, and address. There is not a wrinkle, rip, fold, or tear in this scholarship application packet.
Someone really wants to win this scholarship and has taken the time to show it. The whole application is easy to read, in the correct order, not missing any required documents, and just feels different from all the rest.
The judge glances up at his fellow scholarship committee members and announces that he has found the winner of the scholarship!
That could be you or your son or daughter! To be the winner in the scholarship game, what you need to do is learn the method of making your application grasp the attention of the judges. Find out now exactly what you need to know to be a scholarship winner!
Envision it. All the judges are seated at a large table with piles of scholarship application materials sitting in front of them. The applications are in high piles, paper-clipped or stapled together holding high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and all the other required materials that the scholarship application required. One by one, each judge starts reading the applications and passing them around the table. Often, as a judge is flipping through each application packet, pages of the materials fall out as staples come apart. The pages slip out of the judges fingers and slowly find the floor. The judge wonders what student wrote the essay that he picks up. He sees no name on it. It gets tossed into the trash. One down, several more to go.
As another judge is reading an essay, he suddenly stops and throws the whole application into the trash. It has too many words. The guidelines specifically said 550 words or less. Not 575, not 600, simply 550 or less.
While one judge is reading through the scholarship application form, he slowly brings it closer and closer to his face. He squints his eyes, tries to decipher the print, and then places the whole application into the trash. Forms that are filled out by hand and not typed are very often hard to read, ink-smudged, and time consuming. Now you get the picture?
A judge who has been quickly skimming through his pile of applications suddenly stops and is compelled to take a closer look at the next application packet in the pile. It is neatly arranged in a shiny, black folder. It has the name of the applicant and the name of the scholarship typed on a label on the outside of the folder. He opens up the folder and can't help but smile as he notices the wallet-sized picture of the student taped neatly to the inside flap of the folder. As he pulls out the required documents, he sees that each one is neatly labeled with the student's name, address, and phone number. All documents are in the order in which the scholarship rules requested. No material is missing. Also included is a neatly typed scholarship resume. This resume shares the student's academic success as shown by awards received, G.P.A, class rank, and more. It also documents and explains his part-time job requirements, volunteer and community service hours, and is clearly labeled with the student's name, phone number, and address. There is not a wrinkle, rip, fold, or tear in this scholarship application packet.
Someone really wants to win this scholarship and has taken the time to show it. The whole application is easy to read, in the correct order, not missing any required documents, and just feels different from all the rest.
The judge glances up at his fellow scholarship committee members and announces that he has found the winner of the scholarship!
That could be you or your son or daughter! To be the winner in the scholarship game, what you need to do is learn the method of making your application grasp the attention of the judges. Find out now exactly what you need to know to be a scholarship winner!
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