How to Win the Scholarship Game

Applying for college scholarships is a lot like a game. You play against other students who try to win as much as or more difficult to have than you are. The key is to learn how to sit alongside all the others and together a grant application is glaring that is different from the others.

Think about it. The judges sit at a long table with stacks of scholarship applications packages on the fingertips. Applications should be stapled in clusters, or paper-clippedtogether to maintain letters of recommendation, were high school transcripts, and what other materials required in the scholarship application directions. The judges started passing around the stack of application packages. Frequently, such an application packet sent or read by another judge, pages of the application briefs from the paper clip and float to the ground. Anyone who has this font? There are no names. Throw it out. This is less of an Application to wade through it.

Inthe middle of reading an essay, sees a judge and throws it, and the rest of the application package in the trash. Too many words, 500 words or less means 500 words or less. Not 600, not 502, only 500 or less.

Another judge takes a look at an application that has an ironic look at his face, and then throw the whole package into the trash. Information to hand written and not typed is often difficult to read, smeared with ink, and not worth deciphering. Start thePicture?

Suddenly you feel a black judge, glossy folders, neatly labeled with the student and the name of the scholarship. He opens the folder and inside is a picture of the applicant carefully fastened to the inside flap, and printed the documents needed for heavy bond paper and labeled on each side with the students name, address and telephone number. In addition to the necessary documents are in the same order as they were called for, there are quite a typedScholarship resume. It states clearly the student academic success, community service projects, part-time job responsibilities and is tidy with his or her name, address with the name and telephone number. The scholarship application packet is not folded, wrinkled, torn or broken.

Someone really wants to win this scholarship and is the time taken to show it. The entire application is easy to read, in the correct order, not missing any necessary documents, and just feels differentall others.

The judge looks at his fellow members of the Scholarship Committee and announced that he has found the winner of the scholarship!

If you or your son or daughter? You be the judge. To win the scholarship game, you must remove your application from all others. Now is the time to find out exactly what you need to do to game winner a scholarship!