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Scholarship Sites
- Collegeanswer.com
- Collegequest.com
- Fastaid.com / National Scholarship Research Database
- Scholarsite.com (Minority based scholarships)
- Fastweb.com
- Scholarships.com
“Common Sense and education are highly compatible;
in fact, neither is worth much without the other.”
Donald G. Smith
Most Popular College Majors
Business Administration/ManagementPsychology
Elementary Education and Teaching
Biology/ Biology Sciences, General
Nursing - Registered Nurse Training
Education, Elementary and Secondary
English Language and Literature
Communication Studies/ Speech Communication
Computer Science
Economics, General
Five Principles of Winning Essays
Ø Show Don’t Tell: One of the most prevalent mistakes committed in weak scholarship essays is that applicants tell rather than show. Telling occurs when the applicant makes broad statements without backing them up with specific examples. Showing involves describing a situation or activity or telling a story that proves your point.Ø Keep Things Personal: Relate your essay to a life experience or perspective. Personal comparisons go a long way in making your essay interesting.
Ø Effective Organization: Introduction, give the reader some idea of where you’re headed ( a thesis statement ); Body, where you develop your main points and ideas. Each paragraph in the body should develop a major idea and build on the previous paragraph; Conclusion, an opportunity to reference key points in an original way that extends the concepts even further.
Ø Make Each Sentence Count: Avoid long transitional phrases and sentences that eat up space without accomplishing anything. Don’t be redundant.
Ø Make Your Essay Unique and Memorable
Revising Essays: Before revising an essay, try to distance yourself somewhat from the material. Come back after a brief sabbatical with a fresher perspective. Get others to read essay drafts to you out loud and listen closely for trouble areas that need reworking.
Ben Kaplan, 2002; How To Go To College Almost For Free; Harper Collins
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