Scholarshipzone

Scholarship essay prompts will ask you a variety of difficult questions, from the confusingly open-ended (“What is bravery?”) or exasperatingly difficult (“Sum yourself up in 500 words”) to the downright impossibly blunt (“Why do you deserve this scholarship?”). So how do you ace any and all of these prompts? There’s no true one word answer, but if there were it might be “honesty.”
Scholarship application readers are good at one thing above all else, sniffing out liars.…

The summer between your junior and senior year of high school is a momentous one and you've likely been traveling all around your region, if not the United States, looking for the ideal school for you. As the summer winds up, there's no better time to fit in a few more campus visits - especially close to home. Making a day trip of it can turn the a college tour into a short vacation for the whole family too.…

While you can expound all you like on Nietzsche, Banach algebra, quantum computing or the linguistic acrobatics of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake in your college or scholarship application essay, a misuse or two of "affect" and "effect" will immediately make you look silly. How do you avoid this deplorable fate? Keep in mind all the various and regular misuses of everyday words, dodge them and search doggedly through your essay for them.…

Grammatical mistakes are common. People tend to write like they talk - which isn't always a bad thing as it gives the writing rhythm and a natural flow - but people don't tend to speak with perfect grammar. This is why it's imperative that students reread application essays over again and share with peers and teachers to comb out even the tiniest of grammatical mistakes that may catch the eyes of scholarship or college admissions readers.…

To begin with, there is no wrong scholarship for anyone. With the exception of those limiting you by geographical region, intended major or gender, there's no reason not to apply for any scholarship you come across. As scholarship application essays tend to range in topic, you'll have to put in some extra work, but recycling and tweaking essays for similar prompts can take under an hour, and with that much tuition assistance on the line, it never hurts to apply - from the National Merit Scholars to opportunities for people who hope to become candy technicians or have an aptitude for duck calling.…

While scenic mountain vistas and pastoral walks to class aren't everyone's idea of a good time, the rural college experience has a lot to offer. Whether you're rooted in the mountains of Vermont, the quiet vastness of middle Ohio or a sleepy Colorado college town, America is filled with a variety of natural landscapes, and each one befits a college just as well as the modern cityscape.…

Unless you shared a bedroom with a sibling, it's probably been a while since you had to share such a small personal space. Our bedrooms are traditionally places to escape to, singular rooms where we can comfortably exist on our own and get away from it all. So what happens when you lose half that space to a stranger? (Especially a stranger with bad hygiene, insomnia or mood swings.)
Here's the good news.…

Establishing yourself in high school can be difficult for both young men and women. There are the social stresses to compete with as you try to excel academically and find your own voice in the crowd. The Distinguished Young Women Scholarship seeks out those individuals and gives them an opportunity to really shine.
Many state finals for the scholarship wrapped in early July, and as the current crop of Distinguished Young Women will be heading to college, new state winners will be attending the National competition next June in Mobile, Alabama.…

Whether you were born and bred in rural Iowa, downtown Los Angeles or the sprawling suburbs of Chicago, attending college in the city can be a surreal experience. Even the simple process of switching burroughs for a New Yorker can mean an utter change in the personality, warmth and familiarity of location. Cities are intimidating places - rushed, traffic-heavy, hard to access and harder to leave.…

There's an old joke among realtors and property-investors, and like most old jokes it holds it holds more than a little truth. A young real estate agent asks a veteran of the industry, "What are the three most important factors in a great property?" The veteran responds, without missing a beat, "Location, location, location."
The same could be said of colleges.…