What do these people look for most? An opinion that would coincide with how THEY would think (some of these questions are ethical questions) or how you really feel? Also, do these people look at your organization of your essay or more on content? Meaning it's not important HOW it's written as much as what it SAYS? Also, do these places want a more logical paper or an emotional paper telling about your "struggles to get to where you are today"? Because to me, that seems whiney and "high schoolish", and a bit conceided. I don't know what to do, or how to start this process. I could really use some help/advice.
2006-09-16 18:36:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Financial Aid
I have to read 100 essays such in two days for a scholarship, there are a couple of things you should make sure you do.
1. Make sure it is clearly written, without errors. Have five people read it and give you feedback. One typo should kill your essay.
2. Make sure it actually answers the question being asked. I don't know why about 20% of the essay I read didn't seem to do that.
3. Emotion is OK if it is deserved. When I read a paper saying, "after my mother died in 1997, I left the refugee camp in Thailand..." it didn't seem that whinny to me. Emotions can be happy or optimistic too. You can always talk about all the great things you intend to do with the money (lab fees, books, internships, etc).
4. Unless you are applying for a scholarship with the CATO Institute, I doubt that a essay based upon only logic will be all that compelling. People awarding scholarships want to feel connected to the student. Your essay is the best way to make this connection.
5. Read the organization's mission statement, the ethics questions may relate to the organization's mission in some way.
Good luck!
2006-09-16 18:57:58 · answer #1 · answered by SFDHSBudget 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is written is the contents. The way it is written is the "form" or style. Well BOTH are extremely important. Would you buy a candy that is badly wrapped? Or copy paper that is all messy? Same for YOUR paper. No one would "buy" something that is not properly organized, neatly typed, with spelling errors, without capital letters when they apply, etc... The whole paper must be perfect. Outside this perfection, one steps into mediocrity and must be content with mediocre results. Emotional does not work well nowadays in our society on a global level. Be objective. Be honest. Be yourself, but wrap up the candy in a nice shiny paper. Be rational. Use spell check. Use the real dictionary. Spend time on it, and do not put labels from the beginning like: "high schoolish", because labels are screens that prevent the light from coming in. Labesl are useless jugments. If you are jugmental, your paper will stink. It will show "jugment". Although everyone erroneously think that they can judge everything and everyone else, it is not proper to do so, and your paper must not be jugmental. Not even self-jugmental. It must be factual in GOOD, excellent, perfect English. And it should be focused on the FUTURE and your potential, not on your struggle and all that ....crap from the past. It must show you have potential, credential, courage, motivation, that you are self-challenged, that you do well with others, that you are sociable, that you can be an asset to a group, not an....you know what I mean that looks like asset. And you must think before you write anything. Think with your heart, not your brain. Then you will see that everything will fall into place easily and effortlessly. Remember: you must contribute to society! That is why you are on Earth. That sentence must be present yet invisible throughout your entire text. So meditate upon yourself and your life before you write. Good luck!
2006-09-16 18:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by marysylvie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I have researched on scholarship essays, the best thing to do is to find common ground between you and those who are behind the essay contest. For example, if the company having the scholarship contest is a company that consults college students on how to pay for college, then you could both have common ground in areas such as making priorities, planning, preparation, etc. If the essay topic has any room for you to bring up this common ground, then run with it. I would not change my viewpoint just to match their viewpoint to increase my chance of winning, but if there were common ground I could emphasize then that's where I would focus.
As for paper topics, most of the contests listed at scholarship search engines such as Fastweb.com have a required topic to write about; you won't have to think of a topic yourself.
One resource that has been a great help to me is the book How to Go to College Almost for Free by Ben Kaplan. It goes very in depth into how to write a good essay and where to find what scholarships are available to you. I have been entering contests since reading the book but my journey has begun so recently that none of the contests I have entered are over yet so I don't know how well I am doing yet. Best of luck to you!
2006-09-16 20:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by Lyf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, i might pick to describe that i'm a liberal Democrat and that i'm an open-minded individual, yet i think of I ought to disagree with merely approximately each and every physique else right here. i might merely turn this, to a heterosexual individual discussing their sexuality interior the scholarship essay. It merely does not be appropriate, i think of, for all people, lesbian, transgender, or heterosexual quite to debate sexuality in a scholarship essay. I recommend in case you unquestionably need this scholarship you should evaluate your readership and the objective of this scholarship. i think of your stories will nevertheless tell the essay, yet i does not concentration it fullyyt on your sexuality in case you unquestionably need the scholarship, via fact i think of a minimum of two or a number of the scholarship committee might probable circulate with yet an option determination. I do think of it would make a great subject rely in a innovative writing type or later in a short tale or e book you should to write, yet for a scholarship you unquestionably need to get carry of that's a various tale. Sorry.
2016-10-15 02:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the people reviewing the eassy are fro more interested in what YOU have to say, rather then what you think they want to hear..
Be clear.. be thourough.. and stay on point..
2006-09-16 19:35:52 · answer #5 · answered by limgrn_maria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i write an essay with my hand and i request u to do the same.
2006-09-16 19:24:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋