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College Scholarship Tip for High School Juniors (and other students!)
This scholarship tip for high school juniors will allow them to apply for many more awards, but it must be followed BEFORE they leave school for the summer!
Well before you leave school for the summer (Hint: NOW), ask teachers or other school staff for letters of recommendation for scholarships. This is crucial for summer scholarship applications and for avoiding the crush of students asking for their letters as soon as school resumes in the fall.
To get a higher-quality, more personal letter of recommendation, provide them with a scholarship resume and ask for a letter that includes specific examples of your hard work, achievements, leadership skills, community service, and employment history.
(Go here for more ideas on what to include in your scholarship resume.)
These little details help the judges get to know you on a deeper level and increase your chances of winning each scholarship.
Also, having your letters of recommendation in hand will allow you to apply for scholarships over the summer and get a jump-start on the whole scholarship process.
Waiting until the fall will put you in direct competition with other students who are requesting letters, and your letter writers will be much busier and less apt to spend more time writing you a high-quality letter.
Take this scholarship tip for high school juniors a step further and include a list of scholarships that you plan on applying for, and ask your letter writers to copy and paste the names of the scholarship organizations onto each letter.
For example, instead of “To Whom It May Concern,” your letter would start with “Dear Savor Summer Scholarship Committee,” This should be very easy to do if a copy of the letter is saved on a computer or flash drive.
Always remind your letter writers to save copies of the letter, and tell them you will be working hard to apply for as many college scholarships as you possibly can.
This is impressive and will give the writers another reason to highly recommend you!
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Monica Matthews is the author of How to Win College Scholarships. She helped her own son win over $100,000 in college scholarships and now shares her expertise with other parents and their students. She truly has “been there, done that” in regard to helping parents and students navigate the scholarship process.
Her method of helping students in finding college scholarships, writing unique and compelling scholarship essays, creating amazing scholarship application packets, and more have taught desperate parents to help their own students win thousands of scholarship dollars. She teaches them how to apply S.M.A.R.T. with outstanding results.
Monica’s scholarship tips have been featured on many prominent websites, and she has been dubbed the “Go-To” expert on college scholarships.
