Dear my flist:
I am filling out a scholarship application ATM for a scholarship that you can only apply for if you have a career GPA of 3.6 or more. I have a 4.0, and they want me to write a 500 word essay on why I deserve the scholarship.
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I HONESTLY just want to say BECAUSE I HAVE A 2 SEMESTER STRAIGHT BACHELOR'S LEVEL 4.0, DUH.
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Basically I am no help at all but I wish you luck!
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I just ... I HAVE THE 4.0. It is for people with good grades. I am a person with a perfect grade. GIVE ME THE MONEEEEEEEEY.
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You just have to elaborate on WHY grades are important and WHY and HOW you've kept up that 4.0. Also, fucking jealous of your 4.0 jsyk. Dang girrl.
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But srsly. I won't give you a heart attack by telling how much my student loan is, but it is just a hair less than 1/2 of my entire mortgage, let's just put it that way. *bites nails* Also, when I graduate ... I will be able to SEW!! :D :D
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*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
If I wasn't having so much freaking fun in my program, I'd be hy... hyperve....*passes out*
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I did expand on it and told them that I am the type of person they are looking for.
Basically tell them that you are awesome and give them examples. Tell them how you achieved your 4.0, what obstacles you faced and how you overcame them and how you work hard and how you don't take anything for granted. How leaving everything and working towards this goal of yours terrified you and you took a leap of faith (in yourself) and you did it and this 4.0 is one of the many things you have achieved. What are some of the things you've learned? Those would be some examples you have achieved. Be strong and sure about yourself. And while they ask "why do you deserve this scholarship" tell them straight up that you ( ... )
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If you have a minority antecedent, describe their travails and how this affected you.
If anything nasty and anti-feminine affected you, don't merely detail it, but how it affects your future studies and drive to achieve.
On a personal note you're into the anime. Name a character who has been through trials and tribulations, and how they have inspired you.
I wish I could be less cynical, but I know better. BTDT. It'd be nice if you could point to your GPA, extracurriculars, and essential merits as a student and that is what *I*, personally, would tell you to write ( ... )
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I could curl your hair with my off-fandom TMI, but I don't because it's off-fandom TMI (and no one wants to know that shit.)
Translation: Ain't judging. Know better. Say what you like.
Sending the rest to PM, because, hey... sometimes we don't just want to say this shit on semi-public journals.
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DUDE. God does that to us too. TO the point where if we get a suprise!extra amount of money, we cling to it while warily looking at the sky and wondering what it going to break next. (Usually it is the washing machine.) Lol.
Prayers ALWAYS help!
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