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Getting a scholarship can be a really competitive process. Many people want it, but not all can be given it. No matter if you are recently graduated from high school or have already made a career/vocation of your own and want to pursue higher studies, a scholarship grant can take the financial burden off the further education of college. A scholarship is a financial sponsorship through college and patrons only want to award their money and support to the really deserving candidates. How can you make your scholarship application stand out from all the rest?This book will aim to give you helpful pointers on the following:* things to consider before applying* preparations for the application process* what to do when you've obtained the scholarship* what to do when failing to obtain a scholarship The details in this book are very practical advice and guidelines about the entire application process, the winning secrets of people who have won their own scholarships. These tips have worked for them, and will sure work for you as well. ... Read more

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awareness of how to play on people's minds and emotions to make your appeal
This book gives out tips that are really of good sense. For instance, it advices on understanding yourself well enough (meaning your skills, strengths, weaknesses, personalty and interests)so that you can compose an accurate summary of who you are in your application. It also advices on doing a bit of research about the schools and the faculty that heads the scholarship body in order that you understand your audience well enough to be able to present your skills and strengths effectively as deserving of their support.

sensible tips to help you write a convincing application
The book is a sensible read. It gives facts about getting ready your scholarship applications and very helpful advice on familiarizing yourself with your skills well enough so you can write your application in such a way that you portray yourself as a scholar or that you sound convincing enough that you want to be a scholar and need the scholarship.

Great tips for writing the application letter
I thought the book is a good basic summary of the practicalities of applying and getting approved for a scholarship. It makes a good point about stirring up the emotions honestly and sincerely when making the application letter so that it gets approved. I mean, with all the competition out there, it's a straightforward approach that can get you the results you need.

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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on August 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1172 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Graduate shares his advice.(education)(Greg King's tips on applying for scholarships for Canadian native students)
Author: Cheryl Petten
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: August 1, 2003
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 21Issue: 5Page: 21(2)

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The SCHOLARSHIPS - Secrets to Getting Scholarships to Fund Your Dream Education Book for the Kindle is your ultimate guide to discovering how you can get a college scholarship to fund your dream education, and includes valuable information such as an introduction to scholarships, online searches and search engine information, a detailed guide for parents, the questions to ask about scholarships, grants, and loans, scholarships for special interests and talents such as music, writing a grant proposal, coping with financial hardship, scholarships and nationality, and much much more!

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Overview of contents: Applying to graduate school is, after college, the most important educational decision you will make. Doing it right matters a great deal. This book’s objective is to simplify the processes of finding and applying to the right graduate schools and to increase the likelihood that those applications will be successful. Using a careful and informed procedure to find the programs that best suit your needs and match your qualifications is the first step. The first half of this book, Applying to Graduate School: Assessing and Choosing Programs, will insure that your have begun the application process in a focused and expeditious manner.

The book’s second half, Applying to Graduate School: A Systematic Approach, addresses the other critical element of the application process, the statement of purpose. This part of Applying to Graduate School: Assessment and Application will help you to confront the challenge of writing about yourself by inviting you to think about yourself and your career goals and college achievements in a different way; it will help you to organize the various parts of your yourself effectively and help you to write a vibrant, concrete and interesting statement of purpose that will distinguish you from other candidates to your prospective graduate program[s].

This book contains multiple illustrations and tables that highlight and demonstrate its key points and a valuable annotated bibliography of web-based resources for finding financial aid and evaluating and applying to graduate programs.

Bio: Dr. Milton Kornfeld is a former graduate school dean with more than 30 years experience in higher education as a faculty member [Boston, Northeastern, Suffolk and Brandeis Universities] and as a dean [College of Liberal Arts at Boston University, Brandeis University].

He is currently a Writing Consultant to graduate students at Harvard University's Divinity School and the founder of Yourdean.com, an educational consulting company that helps students apply to graduate programs to launch their graduate careers; he also coaches graduate students who are working to complete their graduate careers and earn their Ph.D. degrees.
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