Attitude Makes All the Difference

Please don't let a negative attitude prevent you from applying for a scholarship.  If you truly believe that you won't win, you probably won't. Give the application and your personal essay everything you have and then frequently remind yourself that you are the one who deserves to win. 
Although you must remember that your application must look good; be free of errors; and be interesting to read in order to be considered excellent,  your attitude plays as big role when you start the application process.

Reminder of Saturday Deadline

Live Your Dream (the Soroptimist scholarship) for over $1500 cash is due this coming Saturday, November 15, 2014.

If you qualify, please, please apply NOW. Although I am not sure of the exact amount, it may be close to $2,000. There are about six scholarships so you are not all competing for the same award. 

The Value of Winning a Scholarship

I am still feeling very sad about an email I received today from a student who shared that applying for a $500 scholarship was not worth the effort of completing the application.  It just happened that there were five $500 scholarships and the odds were in favor of winning.  

Once your portfolio is complete, applying for the average scholarship should not take more than twenty minutes to fill out the basic information.  In your portfolio, you have several letters of recommendation, several versions of your personal essay, transcripts and all of the necessary information to submit your WINNING scholarship application.  

If you have a minimum wage job and you are working part time, are you earning $500 (after taxes) a month? There are many people who are working full time at back breaking jobs who do not earn $500 easily. Please, please rethink the value of winning scholarships!!  Your completed portfolio is your path to graduating debt free.  Believe that you deserve to be awarded scholarships and know that "small" scholarships are easier to win because many students want the "big dollars".  Receiving many of the small scholarships quickly adds up to a lot of money.

You know, growing up in a poor immigrant family, I'm still conscious of living without and the value of money.  So much so that I still stop to pick up a penny if I see it lying on the ground.  Five hundred dollars, to me, still sounds like a lot of money.  Please realize that even a $100 scholarship is worth the effort of applying.   

Thermo Scientific Pierce Scholarship Program

Spring 2015 Thermo Scholarship Award   DEADLINE: December 29, 2014  1:00 p.m. PT

Scholarship Award Criteria:
Declared major of Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or related life science field
Undergraduate degree GPA 3.0 or higher
Unofficial transcripts (If selected, an official transcript will be required.)

http://www.pierce-antibodies.com/PierceScholarship/Index.cfm

How to Get Everything in Life You Want -- Zig Zigler

It all starts with the mind!!

Professional Resume

I have noticed that a number of scholarship applications are now requiring a professional resume as part of the scholarship application.  That means that in order to have a complete scholarship portfolio, you MUST include a professional resume.  Please do not confuse it with the scholarship resume which is used ONLY when requesting a letter of recommendation.

For my students in both the online and lecture classes, I will be submitting worksheets so that you can start collecting and organizing the information necessary to write your resume.  This resume will not only fill your scholarship portfolio requirement, but will give you a very necessary tool when you are searching for a job. 

Live Your Dream -- DEADLINE

Live Your Dream (Soroptimist Award) deadline is just around the corner. This  award is for women who are financially responsible for another.  It could be as much as $2,000 in cash.  Don't miss the deadline.

November 15, 2014