It’s really important when applying for a scholarship that you show them what you’re made of. Let them know you’re a go-getter and you think outside the box. Talk about the effort, 100% of course, that you’ll give to your studies. It’s important to let them know that college costs an arm and a leg but you’re looking to the brighter side of things and pinning your hopes to this scholarship, and on a wing and a prayer you can make it to college.

Clichés may sound great to you in your own head; they may even sound great when you read your essay or personal statement out loud, but they are absolutely BORING when you are a scholarship committee reading 4,000 entries with each student defining themselves as “go-getters.” Save the committee the pain and separate yourself from the pack–sorry–and come up with a better way to express what you’re feeling…

…Unless you’re doing a creative essay for an English scholarship and purposely write the entire essay with nothing but clichés–now that’s thinking outside the box!

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