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Competing for Financial Resources Jose Mendoza GCC

Competing for Financial Resources Jose Mendoza GCC. Objective: To Position yourself to compete and win Financial scholarships for college costs. -Elements necessary to compete on a national basis… -How to position yourself to become the winning candidate for scholarships

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Competing for Financial Resources Jose Mendoza GCC

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  1. Competing for Financial ResourcesJose Mendoza GCC Objective: To Position yourself to compete and win Financial scholarships for college costs. -Elements necessary to compete on a national basis… -How to position yourself to become the winning candidate for scholarships -The winning personal Statement -The letters of recommendation -What are most viable sources of scholarships…

  2. Competing for Financial ResourcesJose Mendoza GCC • Elements Necessary to compete on national basis… -Must be academically competitive in a challenging curriculum with a career focus that has opportunity for present and future. -Know your competition and prepare to win -Focus on those resources that appear to hold the most promise.. What is distinct about you that will put in a position to garner attention and the grantor willing to give you the resources…What is your story…

  3. Competing for Financial ResourcesJose Mendoza GCC II. How to position yourself to become the winning candidate for scholarships? -What is a part of your makeup that makes you the best possible candidate? -academics -program focus -challenges met and won -social consciousness -clear and definitive strategy to achieve goals

  4. Competing for Financial ResourcesJose Mendoza GCC • The personal Statement, the winning formula -Must be grammatically perfect, the reader must not stumble around when reading your statement, but inspired to read more… -must be structured and have smooth transition from one component idea to another -must have a noteworthy sense of social responsibility and mission. -should have a historical perspective connected to the present and that reality must be relevant. In other words, must clearly delineate your degree of sophistication in the higher education environment..

  5. Competing for Financial ResourcesJose Mendoza GCC • The letters of recommendation -You must own and control process and content of letters of recommendation.. -Cannot be brief and connected to your history and highlight your values, personal characteristics, giving to your community, and leadership and personal responsibility.. -Must have depth as to how author of letter knows you and why you merit the scholarship.

  6. Competing for Financial ResourcesJose Mendoza GCC • Resources for Financial Scholarships… -Look at Program specific scholarships first such as: Pre-med, engineering, business, education, social work, health professions, technology, etc -look at national scholarships in general and narrow that field of scholarship options best suited for you and your educational objectives.. -Research scholarship providers so you can connect and resonate with scholarship sources.. Prepare your documentation to best state your case for winning the scholarship ahead of other competitors. Consider fonts, text size, length of paragraphs, and transition of ideas interconnected with each other. Have a plan that you constantly update to position yourself to be sought for funds.

  7. Competing for Financial ResourcesJose Mendoza GCC Scholarship resources: -http://www.hsf.net/ -http://www.adelantefund.org/adelante/default.asp http://www.hacu.net/hacu/default.asp http://www.shpe.org/ http://www.smdep.org/ http://sacnas.org/ http://www.latinocollegedollars.org/

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