You have your letters of recommendation, scholarship resume, and have
carefully filled out the scholarship application. All you need to do
now is write the winning essay. What can you write about that will get
the attention of the scholarship judges? Where do you start? What is the
secret to writing an essay that will help you win the scholarship
money?
The first thing you need to do is understand that the point
of a scholarship essay is for the judges to get to know YOU. They want
to know more than your name, date of birth, GPA, standardized test
score, etc... The essay allows you to let the judges know your thoughts,
feelings, and opinions on whatever subject they want you to write
about. They don't want to know facts that they can easily learn from
your scholarship application, so refrain from starting your essay with
something like, "My name is __________ and I go to _________ high
school".
What you need to do to quickly get the attention of the
judges (who have read possibly thousands of essays) is to start your
essay with a compelling statement. Draw them in right away and create in
them the desire to read your whole essay from start to finish because
they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. How do you do this? Read over
the subject of the essay, form your own opinion, and then write your
first sentence with a personal experience that you feel strongly about.
For example, when you answer the popular essay question, "How will the
scholarship money help you?" you can write something like, "Sleeping in
on Saturday mornings is something that I love to do, but for the past
year I have literally dragged myself out of bed so I can go to my local
children's hospital and read stories to the kids who are patients
there...." Then you write about how winning the scholarship money will
bring you one step closer to realizing your dream of becoming a
pediatrician.
Make yourself real to the judges. You are much more
than a name on a flat piece of paper! Your essay allows you to come
alive in the judge's minds, so help them use their imagination to see
you with lots of descriptive words, heartfelt emotions, and real life
situations. Use a thesaurus to help you use words that make yourself
stand out and be remembered. Always tell the truth. Never lie in your
scholarship essays. Don't have a parent write your essay for you. After
reading so many essays, scholarship judges KNOW which students wrote the
essays themselves, which ones stretch the truth, and which ones want to
win so bad that they will say anything that makes them look better that
the other applicants.
Scholarship essays are a way for the judges
to get to know YOU on a deeper level. When you draw them in from the
beginning of your essay, tell the truth, and write from your heart, your
chances of winning the scholarship money are much greater
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