Increase Your Chances of Getting a College Scholarship! Check Out These 9 Tips for Applying

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Increase Your Chances of Getting a College Scholarship! Check out these 9 Tips for Applying for a College Scholarship. Getting a college scholarship is often a dream of many people. However, fierce competition and limited scholarship quotas make prospective applicants inferior and discourage them from applying for scholarships. If you’re one of those discouraged applicants, you’re reading the right article.

Make sure you don’t lose the battle. Let’s make up your mind to get a college scholarship. Follow these 9 tips on how to apply for a scholarship to increase your chances of winning a college scholarship.

#1: Seek as much information about the scholarship as possible

If you’re determined to get a scholarship, the first step is to find as much information about the scholarship you’re after as possible. You can get this information easily by optimizing your internet access. Look for the complete free college scholarship information on social media or the official website of the scholarship-awarding institution you are eyeing.

Also read: Want to Get a Discount on Your Undergraduate Tuition Fees? Check out UMN’s Scholarship Program.

#2: Look for campuses that provide entrance with scholarships

Apart from scholarship organizations, you can also look for scholarship information from private and public universities that interest you. Find out about scholarship entrance programs that you can try.

Some private universities provide this option. Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, for example, provides several scholarship entry routes: a test scholarship route and a no-test scholarship route.

For more information about scholarships offered by UMN, the best private university in Tangerang, you can visit UMN’s Official Website.  

#3: Active in organizations since school

To make you stand out from other scholarship applicants, you must have something to make you stand out. One way to do this is by being actively involved in school organizations. You can join extracurricular activities, become a member or administrator of the student council, and various other school activities.

#4: Have achievements

Apart from being active in organizations, you can also join various competitions to make achievements since school. If you win a race or the Olympics, your chances of getting a college scholarship will be even wider. 

One of the scholarship pathways from Universitas Multimedia Nusantara is the Science Olympiad Scholarship Path. If you have won medals in the National and International Science Olympiad, you can enter UMN with a scholarship in the form of a reduced tuition fee.

#5: Fluency in English or the language of instruction of the country you are applying to.

Mastering a foreign language is often one of the requirements for applying for a college scholarship. This is especially true if you’re aiming for a scholarship abroad. Scholarship applicants are often required to have a minimum standard score for TOEFL/IELTS, TOPIK, HSK, or JLPT. 

So, prepare yourself by taking English or other foreign language courses. This way, when you apply for a scholarship to study abroad, you’ll be prepared and confident in your foreign language skills.

#6: Seek information from scholarship alumni

Apart from looking for information from formal channels, you can also look for tips on getting a scholarship from the alumni of the scholarship recipients you are applying to. Don’t hesitate to reach out to them through social media. 

Introduce yourself politely and express your intentions and purpose for contacting them. You might get some stories about their experiences when applying, the college scholarship selection process, and tips and tricks to help them get the scholarship.

#7: Prepare the best possible essay

Some scholarship agencies like to include essays and motivation letters as one of the requirements to get their scholarships. Write an essay to convince them you are the right candidate for the scholarship. 

Through this essay, the scholarship provider can assess your personality. So, you can promote yourself. However, ensure that your writing is factual, realistic, and not exaggerated.

#8: Practice interviews

Sometimes, there is an interview stage, and sometimes there isn’t, depending on the college scholarship awarding institution. However, if you are going to apply to an institution with an interview stage, it doesn’t hurt to prepare yourself as well as possible.

At this stage, you will be dealing with many parties. Often, applicants fail at this stage due to nervousness and lack of confidence. That is why you must prepare for this stage as well as possible. Practice a lot so that you get used to it. Also, read a lot and find information related to your chosen major. That way, you can give the best possible answer to your choice of major at the interview stage.

#9: Make sure to fill out the forms, documents, and other requirements completely.

The last but also the most important requirement for your college scholarship application to pass the selection stage is to fill out all the forms and complete all the documents and requirements requested by the scholarship awarding institution. Make sure you fill them out as well as possible and leave no stone unturned. Thus, you can get into the selection of scholarship recipients.

Also read: Dedicated to the Country, UMN Provides Full Undergraduate Scholarships Until Graduation.

Good luck! Believe me, the process will not betray the results. While making an effort and still giving your best, your dream of getting a college scholarship will surely be realized.

Sumber:

• Kompas.com
• Gramedia
• Official Website UMN

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