Tips Beasiswa Ten Things To Remember

Regularly check for Scholarship opportunities
Develop a commendable academic record
- Maintain good grades, but you don't have to have a 4.0 to win scholarships
- Study for SAT/ACT exams
- Attend all your classes and participate actively
Be involved in school activities and community service
- Join clubs and activities that you are passionate about and become an active participant
- Assume leadership roles and exercise leadership skills in activities
- Commit to helping your community by volunteering locally
Get started early
- Begin applications as early as possible either online or on paper
- Fill out a personal data form and give to teachers or counselors at least four weeks in advance for letters of recommendation and make sure to follow up on their progress
- Request official or unofficial transcripts in advance if necessary
Set goals
- Commit to applying for a certain number of scholarships and give yourself deadlines
- Constantly update your goals
- Don't hesitate to dream big and work towards achieving your goals
Diversify your scholarship portfolio
- Apply for local and national scholarships
- Check with your career center advisor for local and national scholarships weekly
- Avoid only applying for large, national scholarships because several small scholarships can add up
Create a timeline and constantly update it
- List your top scholarships from your FastWeb results by deadline
- Give yourself dates by which to finish essays, forms, teacher recommendations, etc.
- Set up reminders (i.e. post-it notes, email notifications, calendar entries) so you don't forget any due dates
Tell your story effectively
- Be genuine and honest in telling your story so that your essay portrays you accurately
- Appeal to the judges and grab their attention
- Know your audience (avoid slang and being too informal)
Make a copy of all applications and submitted documents for your personal file
- Maintain a scholarship portfolio or file with copies of your applications
- Use completed forms as templates for other scholarship applications
- Reuse essays with similar prompts and questions by morphing it to fit the scholarship
Give 100% effort in applying for a scholarship
- Ask teachers, parents, and peers to read over your essays and then edit and revise as needed
- Fill in the application neatly and completely
- Double check application information and correct any grammatical or spelling errors