Comments on: Contents of Scholarship Essays

By: John Curd

John Curd — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:17:04 +0000

Toootally true

By: JP

JP — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:11:15 +0000

Wow. The entire college application process boiled down to a convenient pie chart.

By: Gibsoncat9

Gibsoncat9 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:57:27 +0000

…it worked pretty “well”…

By: lulu

lulu — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:36:29 +0000

I’ve done a sob story…worked pretty good!

By: Turk

Turk — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:47:56 +0000

If it was just generally college essays, it would fit better.
Then again, general college essays would be 50% helping all the poor little kids in Hurricane Katrina, some musical instrument, or a sport (in the case of most girls I know, dance or colorguard).

By: Gibsoncat9

Gibsoncat9 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:05:28 +0000

Bragging and ass-kissing is the ONLY content relevant to a scholarship essay.
You lose.

By: bugwitch

bugwitch — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:07:17 +0000

Don’t remind me….I have to do this again. Apparently I’m not good enough at ass kissing.

I imagine this will be similar to my Grad School essays.

By: lolol

lolol — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:34:31 +0000

Actually, it’s about 30-70 bragging and lying. I used to do college interviews and I read their essays first so i could do follow up. They would just fumble around trying to remember what they made up and often just confessed that the club they were “president” of, that was half of their essay, met once.

By: CellBlock

CellBlock — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:01:22 +0000

In a scholarship essay, bragging *IS* relevant content.

By: ?

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:38:54 +0000

True, indeed. Tell that to my student classmates, if only they’d realize….

By: DieNarrin

DieNarrin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:34:46 +0000

so true – just proofed my nephew’s