congratulations you're about to win your

first college scholarship and here's why

there's over a hundred billion dollar in

scholarship money offered each year now

most people think the reason no one is

winning scholarships is because we're

running out of money but that simply

isn't the case because over $100 million

of this money goes unclaimed each year

so if the reason isn't a lack of money

do you have to be a straight A student

or perfect resume to get that

scholarship surprisingly no that's

simply not the issue either the reason

most people don't win scholarships they

don't know how to correctly find and

apply for scholarships the right way is

someone who has won over $500,000 in

scholarship money this is my Ultimate

Guide to how I did it and how you can

too now let's get started before we

start though my name is kin I'm an MIT

student and I'm trying to help you pay

for college so go ahead and hit that

like button and subscribe to show your

support I post every Friday so in this

video we're going to talk about every

type of scholarship um we got National

scholarships local scholarships um

there's corporate scholarships military

scholarships even essay or competition

based scholarships for my International

viewers so all of these different types

of scholarships are going to be how you

build up your portfolio of

applications these categories apply to

those of you in high school and those of

you in college so let's talk a little

bit about strategy and what you're up

against when you apply for these

scholarships so I think we all have a

basic understanding that if if you apply

to something with more applications it's

going to be a lot harder to get into the

the scholarship program for example you

apply to an Ivy League it's a much

harder acceptance rate than a community

college or something like that so that

same logic applies to scholarships when

you apply to those full tuition um

scholarships those National those

International those Merit based

scholarships those are going to be a lot

harder to win but if you apply to the

local scholarships the low dollar amount

ones those are going to be a lot easier

to win because either no one from your

low locality is applying to them or

people don't think it's worth it to

apply for a $500 scholarship now we're

going to be talking about all of these

in this video it's good to apply to a

variety of things because you still want

to apply to those full tuition

scholarships because maybe you do have a

shot but you don't want to ignore the

ones on the bottom and of course as you

go down the funnel you've got identity

based which cuts out a large portion of

your competition who doesn't identify

with a certain identity and then need

based not everyone is going to have

Financial need so that helps your

chances um field specific also not

everyone is a stem major so they can

apply to stem stem

scholarships and then of course you've

got school specific scholarships you're

competing with the 40,000 people

admitted to your school but you're not

competing with people around the world

world or around the country

so this is kind of a basic strategy you

want to keep in mind when you're

applying to these

scholarships now warning before you

continue I said you'd win your first

scholarship but that takes work you're

going to have to watch this full video

and actually apply the steps I give you

in this video to your actual

applications now go get a pen and paper

and lock in so we're going to be talking

about my four-step process to get the

scholarship money um you're going to

start at the beginning I'm going to go

into what that involves um basically

you're going to list out a bunch of

things about yourself then you're going

to be able to find your scholarships

notice yours capitalized because there

are specific scholarships that you want

to apply for that not other people

should apply to and then we're going to

be talking about how to write the

winning essay and the application

strategy you want to use that I also

used when I appli to several hundred

scholarships but before we get started I

want to talk a little bit about what is

the difference between loans grants

versus scholarships cuz some of my

viewers don't know this and I think it's

important to understand that loans are

not free money loans must be repaid with

interest um the average interest rate is

6.5% which is a lot which means you're

taking out money and then you're going

to have to pay that money plus money on

top so you can get Federal loans which

are lower interest rates um than private

loans but overall we kind of want want

to avoid loans which is why I made this

video in the first place of how to get

scholarships scholarships and grants are

completely free money that you do not

have to pay back so for example the pel

grant which is given by the federal

government is for those for from

lowincome families but they help you pay

for college a little bit um and then

scholarships are offered by usually not

governments as much but by corporations

by individuals by foundations they want

to give you money so that you advance

their um either Mission or they want to

support you uh whatever the foundation's

purposes that is free money that goes

unclaimed every year that we trying to

access so this picture it's a little

picture that I just wanted to put up

this is a picture of a

moat so why do I have this picture up

this picture is to illustrate a basic

concept Concept in the medieval times

when you had people raiding castles

going pillaging V Villages and looting

looting these

castles when a castle didn't have a

moat think about what

happens you're going to have the armies

the Invaders they easily take take all

the money from that castle loot the

castle get all the goods um there those

are going to be gone real fast the ones

with the Moes eventually they will fall

down but the more Moes you

have the harder it is to get into that

castle it's a lot easier to attack a

castle without any moat but if you go

ahead and go and attack a castle without

moat guess what there's going to be

nothing in that castle there's going to

be nothing left because it's been

already raided a 100,000 times

everyone's taken all the good stuff

already it's not worth salvaging from a

castle that has been raided

before you want to go to a castle that

is hard to attack that people are scared

of attacking because that is where all

the good stuff is going down the easy

routes is going to lead to less reward

lower risk lower work less reward so

stop being afraid of the hard work and

go and attack the castles with big Moes

so that leads me into my next Point

you're going to see a lot of lottery

ticket it's out there right here you you

see on big future this is college board

this is the official college board and

they're offering you let's see look

$40,000 no essay required not need-based

not even Merit based so that's just a

lottery ticket you can go ahead and buy

a lottery ticket and they won't sell

your data like these these um things

will uh if you see right here a $2,000

scholarship by Sally May what is Sally

May Sally May is a student loan provider

so when you go ahead and enter this

scholarship what are they going to do

they're going to take down your email

and they're going to keep spamming you

how do I know this I did this and now

they keep sending me emails about

applying for student loans you never

going to see a dollar of this money if

you want to you can go ahead and click

apply now because it takes 2 seconds and

that's why 60,000 other people have

applied to this this is a no Moe Castle

so do not apply for

these now what is chat GP p t chat GPT

is also going to be a lottery

ticket because chat GPT is what everyone

is using to write their essays nowadays

if you want to go ahead and write an

essay with chat gbt that is reducing

your workload yes but that's attacking a

castle with no Moe you can go ahead and

do that you're not going to win anything

we're not we're not talking about

applying to scholarships using chat GPT

and mass applying you want to apply to a

lot of scholarships but you want to take

it seriously you're wasting your own

time you're wasting the time of the

people who read the application it's not

even worth it this is just a lottery

ticket and now of course what is this

this is a scam there are a lot of scams

out there about

scholarships if you ever have to pay or

give your bank details to get a

scholarship before you've even won or

accepted it these things are overall

just going to hurt you in the end um be

careful when you're applying to

scholarships the official ones will be

an application they shouldn't ask you

for money or bank details or anything

like

that so let's get into the four-step

process um we're going to start with

this so I want you to go ahead and find

a piece of paper and a pencil um I'll

give you 10 seconds to do that we're

going to wait for this gift to reload so

go ahead 10 seconds

all right so now that you have that

piece of paper write down your name at

the top and the following steps even if

they seem weird to you don't skip them

you're going to follow them and it's

going to be

great

so what I need you to do is write down

your basic stats you can go ahead get

out your driver's license look yourself

in the mirror I want you to write down

your gender height weight eye color

birth month um identity what does that

mean racial ethnic background um if

you're mixed write both religion you

follow um family income bracket uh go

ahead and ask your parents try to

estimate it figure it out this is

important your parents employers where

do they work what do they do locations

you've lived where do you live right now

where's your home have you moved from

somewhere write that down on the piece

of paper in these categories and yes I

will explain why you're writing down

your height weight and eye color a

little bit

later okay next I want you to write down

your clubs and extracurriculars you've

been in this includes National Honor

societies Sports volunteering all of

that

competitions then family facts are are

your parents divorced or separated do

they immigrate from where um everything

about your your

family and then of course personal facts

fun facts unique facts about yourself

are your first generation college

student are you adopted

um things about yourself I don't I don't

really know what else to write down but

like things that are special about you

and then of course your major and minor

stem pread business

Humanities what what are you

studying once you've got that all down I

want you to go ahead look on your

school's website for your guidance

counselor write down their name and

their email address right on the piece

of

paper this one is

important okay so why did we just do all

of

that why we did that is because

scholarships fall into a variety of

categories these are four of them right

here they're way more than this let's

see why we wrote down your religion and

your race because they're are identity

based scholarships which give you money

specifically for these things why did

you write down your family income

because need-based scholarships are one

of the largest categories of where

students get money for college why did

you write down your parents employer why

did you write down your clubs you went

to went to because these are personal

aspects of yourself that also have have

scholarships attached depending on where

your parents worked they will give you

money to go to college depending on the

clubs you did if you did chess club if

you did um certain Sports you get money

for those

activities and finally special

scholarships why did you write down your

eye color why did you write down your

height did you know there's actually

scholarships for people with certain eye

colors or being tall or these weird

little like things that you would never

have guessed yeah I found that out when

I was kind of scholarships so might as

well write it down see if you

qualify and then there's also

scholarships for being like coming from

a single parent household for um like

being adopted being an orphan all of

these like unique things about yourself

there are scholarships for that so so um

think through things about yourself that

are like special that you've overcome

that not many other people can say that

that they have there might be a

scholarship for

that so now how do you take this

information and find your scholarships

let's talk about that because this is

going to be the longest part of the

presentation and the most important part

because if you find the right

scholarships your chances of winning

like Skyrocket you're you're going to

win if you find the scholarship that was

made for

you so first of all what are we using to

find these scholarships um these are

some ways that I found my scholarships

most of mine do come from scholarship

America which is a a wonderful like

website that compiles a bunch of like

scholarships from other organizations

foundations these foundations partner

with scholarship America say you you

review our applications and we'll give

the money out to the people who win now

nshss this is another organization that

does that or actually they give out

their own scholarships so that's just an

organization you can search for them um

and then the EA I'm going to show you

guys how to access that and find

competitions this is more of a

competition based uh website where you

can like win money um which you can

apply to your school and then of course

there's the classic like databases you

got Moss which is an app unigo bold fast

web scholarship 360 Niche scholarship

hour owl um these all

have hundreds of thousands of

scholarships on these databases you can

choose whichever one works for you those

are also good um I haven't personally

won that many off of these little

databases though um but if that works

for you that's great I'm going to show

you guys how to use these in a minute um

and then also there's first which is the

robotics organization I was a part of

they have their own little database of

scholarships specifically for the first

program so think about that if you were

part of an organization do they have

scholarships do they have a database

where you can get scholarships um

specifically for that organization

that's another Mo because not everyone

can use the first website unless you've

done first

robotics and then finally I have down

here the counselor that's why we wrote

down the counselor email

this is the perfect way to find local

scholarships which I talked about local

scholarships are specific to your region

to your state to your county only the

people in that area can apply to these

which is way less than the national and

international scholarships receiving

80,000 applications a year that's where

you're really going to win money is

through your guidance counselor all of

these other websites are great the most

important one is your counselor because

that's where you win the

scholarships and then of course Google

I'll show you how to correctly um search

for a scholarship on Google right now

we're going to go through all of these

actually right now I'm going to show you

a quick demonstration how you find the

scholarships so on scholarship America

if I click on browse scholarships I'm

going to see a long list of a bunch of

scholarships in alphabetical order

so at the top you can filter by the ones

that are currently accepting

applications you can filter by the state

and then your grade level and if you're

pursuing stem or if you need financial

need so let's click on this scholarship

right here we can see the um eligibility

requirements you can see how much the

award is worth uh you can see that you

need an income of 150,000 or less and

then

GPA requirements and then it's as simple

as clicking apply now so on

nshss I'm going to go to the

scholarships tab it's not really easy to

find the scholarships you're going to

have to scroll down to the footer click

on

scholarships and then

see you've got a couple scholarships

here offered by

nshss now some of these are for members

nshss Members Only um as you can see

here here's a steam scholarship with a

question why major question um but there

are other scholarships which are just

for the general public so you don't have

to pay for a membership to apply to this

for example this one which also is

related to

technology so as you can see this is the

first database I was talking about you

can use whatever database works for you

um this is just one that I look through

as you can see there's a variety filters

over here you can really Target the

scholarships towards your specific

factors now a lot of these are very

school

specific but there's also sites like

Niche bold scholarship owl scholarship

360 these are all going to have similar

databases collections of scholarships

all right next we got the institute for

educational advancement um there's a

very specific link you have to go to to

find the scholarships and competitions

which I will be sharing in the video

description so check that out there's a

variety of filters it's kind of

glitching out right now but there's

everything from middle school to high

school to college on here and it's

honestly a variety of competitions as

well as scholarships so as you could see

that ACS scholarship there is the alond

grant which offers money but a lot of

these are mixed with other competitions

as well um American Legion is a great

one you have to write an essay and you

can win some money associated with

that finally let's talk about how to use

Google to basically find any scholarship

in the world so right now I'm just

typing in scholarships for women and

stem in high school it's pretty specific

but if you look at the results we're

getting a bunch of like database sites

which aren't very like good you might as

well have just searched in those

databases what you really want to do is

get down to the extreme specifics for

example

scholarships for black women in

aerospace engineering in senior year of

high school that's very very specific

and as you can see the results are a bit

better you get direct links to

foundations offering

scholarships okay so now that you know

how to find scholarships through the

databases let's talk about the fact um

that not all of you are in high school

and that's okay there are scholarships

for high school students and there are

scholarships for college students I will

say applying in high school is way

easier you have less work there's way

more scholarships available for you and

they're

bigger and you start applying in 11th

grade um 12th grade is the majority

there's one scholarship you want to

apply for in your junior year of high

school which is 11th grade um but this

is where the majority of your money is

coming from and this is where the

biggest scholarships are targeted

towards now if you are in college that's

okay there are still scholarships for

you there's fewer like big ones but we

are going to talk about how you get

those I still been winning scholarships

while I've been in college so it is

possible and there is still money

available for you so keep

watching so let's talk about the first

category these are I'm just going to go

through some examples of scholarships

under some example categories that you

guys can use and like know about

um when you're

applying so I wanted to make you guys

aware of these so here's a full tuition

scholarship there's two of these that I

know of um which are full tuition

merit-based scholarships completely

Merit based not based on anything else

this is like applying to a college

except you apply for

money and that is Cameron impact and the

coolage scholarship the coolage

scholarship is the one you apply for in

your junior year of high school 11th

grade Cameron impact is for 12th grade

high school seniors these are going to

be extremely competitive everyone in the

country is applying for these and they

are not easy to win they they're going

to receive 80,000 applications a year um

but if you win it you are on a full ride

scholarship so go ahead and apply for

these make sure you apply for these

they're worth

it but let's narrow it down now let's go

to the National scholarships these are

not full tuition these are still

thousands of applications a year but you

should be aware of them and you should

still apply for them because if you win

these scholarships you can put it on

your resume you can say you you want you

are a winner of this scholarship and

they often have huge programs and

support available which is more than

just money you're part of a network

you're part of the Coca-Cola Scholars

Network now and that is worth something

in addition to the

money so yes you get $20,000 you apply

for this in senior year for the cocaa 1

the National Merit is actually based on

your PSAT so take the PSAT seriously

because the um top scores for those get

qualified for a scholarship in National

Merit most people don't know that and

don't take this PSAT seriously this is

more important than your sat in some

ways you can retake the SAT however many

times you want you get one

PSAT so

yeah a lot of people at my school didn't

think about

that and then there's the Elk's most

valuable student award this is one that

I have

one um it's need-based or Merit based

it's for high school seniors apply

during your senior year this is also

very competitive to get because these

are all

national now this is going down I don't

have as much in this category because

it's local so here's an example of a

local one is a Flynn Scholars Program

which is specifically for Arizona

students that's what makes it local I

cannot apply to the Flynn Scholars

Program because I am from Illinois so

this already cuts out a large P portion

of the world it's still difficult but if

you're like if you're like an insane

high schooler in Arizona how many more

insane high schoolers are there in

Arizona that you're competing with

because that's how you win a real

scholarship is applying with a smaller

applicant

pool and then there's these other things

called Community foundations you're

going to want to search that up um it's

highly based on your state where you're

from uh yeah I can't really give you

guys specific examples of local

scholarships that is coming from your

guidance counselor but these are the

most important ones because of that low

application so what do I mean by school

specific scholarships here's what I mean

school specific scholarships

are essentially scholarships

you can get only if you are applying to

that school so or a specific group of

schools for example five strong

scholarship or third Good Marshall

College Fund these are for HBCU

historically black colleges

um and yeah so if you're applying to an

HBCU there's a ton of scholarships

specifically targeted for students going

to HBCU so check that out now the

Jefferson Scholars Program is a specific

program for University of Virginia so if

you're applying to you University of

Virginia you can get full rides there's

a lot more full ride scholarships

specific to schools so you don't have to

apply for like uh companies that are

giving out full rides or

foundations sometimes your school will

often give out a full ride if you're a

really good student and have great

academics a lot of like University

Alabama Public Schools they give out

full ride scholarships to get the best

um students with high GPA High SATs um

convince them to come to their school

instead of an Ivy

League because Ivy Leagues are expensive

you don't necessarily get money at these

top schools but they can offer you free

ride just like they can to an

athlete so check that out Morhead cane

is for UNCC Chapel Hill and there's tons

tons more these are all I can fit on

this

slide all right need-based scholarships

are if you're if you're able to apply

for a need-based scholarship you are

very fortunate in this regard because

there are so many need-based

scholarships need-based is the highest

amount of scholarships I'd say there are

available every scholarship if it's not

completely need- based at least takes

into consideration the fact that you

need money so if you're from a lowincome

household you are going to have so many

opportunities to apply for scholarships

there's the questbridge program which

matches you with top Ivy Leagues MIT

other schools you get matched with it

you get a full ride don't have to worry

about money at

all of course the schools themselves

were will often just straight up give

you a full ride like if you go to MIT

and you are a lowincome student you do

not have to pay a thing you MIT meets

your full need your full need um and

will completely like completely cover

everything and that is the same for

every ivy league so you don't need to

worry about money if you're from a

lowincome

household the Jack Kent cook scholarship

is additionally for lowincome students

you apply for this when in high high

school or Beyond and Dell Scholars is

also a high school one should have wrote

that down a lot of these are um last

year of high school senior year um and

this is $20,000 for students with

financial need and often these

scholarships come with a little bit of

extra things like program

support like they want to make sure you

graduate college because this is a group

that is often left behind that is often

found not able to graduate college is at

high rates so they are going to provide

you the support and resources in

addition to the money to be able to

graduate and that is an amazing thing

you need to be looking for these

need-based

scholarships um if you

qualify okay let's talk about

identity-based scholarships there are so

many identity based of course the main

ones come down to race ethnicity and

religion if you're a Hispanic there's a

Hispanic scholarship fund Ron Brown

Scholars is for black students Jewish

Federation um there's every religion has

scholarships every race has scholarships

Asian Pacific Islander um this pretty

easy to narrow down um it is still

competitive cuz there's a lot of like

people of a certain race applying to

these but it is less competitive than a

completely national scholarship like the

Coca-Cola Scholars where everyone is

applying so take a look look at these

make sure you know which identities you

fall under look for your

foundations okay major based

scholarships you'd be surprised see I

was surprised when I found out about

what the James Beard Foundation is this

is a scholarship for students pursuing

culinary arts and Hospitality so if you

want to be a cook you can get money for

that from this Foundation if you want to

do stem which is pretty much the most

common major based scholarship there are

hundreds of thousands of scholarships

for stem Majors one example is the

locked Martin stem scholarship for

students pursuing stem degrees and of

course the government is also going to

try and recruit you for stem Majors so

that you can work for the government

we'll talk more about that in a later

slide but everyone wants a stem major to

work at their organization so they're

going to go ahead and pay for your

college so that you come and work for

them later

on and then you've got the AIA AA

scholarships which is for Aerospace and

then I have a link here which is a bonus

I will keep it in the description this

is just a straight up link to every

major in the scholarships which you can

find related to that major so I got you

guys with that

one should I click on it I'll I'll show

you I'll put a cut scene in to show you

what this link has

okay finally or this isn't this is even

the last one guys this isn't even I

don't even have every category but these

are just some examples of all the

scholarships that I know about and I'm

going to show you guys my full list a

little bit later on as well so you've

got the government scholarships Roc they

want you for the military um they're

going to pay for your tuition the dod

Department of Defense if you're a stem

student you can work for the Department

of Defense after they'll pay your

college now there's competition based if

you ever you've got to know about the

Liv Moss Taco Bell scholarship this is a

scholarship you film a two-minute video

about your passion you can win up to

$25,000 it's basically a competition no

essays no they don't care about your GPA

they don't care about your sat this is

simply straight up a competition um and

then of course this one which most

people don't even think about is essay

based writing comp contests um you just

straight up win prize money for writing

an essay which is what you do in your

scholarship anyway so this I'm

considering this a scholarship write a

good essay get money you can use that

for books whatever you

want now for you International students

I know we've got plenty of those um

there's three three good ones Empower

Global citizen MasterCard foundation and

American University emerging Global

leader these are going to be a lot more

competitive International students have

a lot of competition I'm sorry but if

you could get these they're pretty good

I mean the

Au um is only for one student a year but

it's full tuition and Empower Global

citizen is for international students

studying in the US

that there's not many scholarships um

there's not many foundations that do

that so this is a good one and then of

course the MasterCard Foundation is

specifically for African students so go

ahead and look for your country there

might be specific scholarships for your

country or location or town

um

yeah now here we go I promise to speak

to you guys about these special

scholarships we've got the blue eyes

scholarship which you can get money for

having blue eyes a little weird but yeah

someone's out there giving money to

people with blue eyes unfortunately I

cannot apply um Northwestern Mutual is

giving out a scholarship for siblings of

children with Childhood Cancer so that's

how specific this gets if your sibling

unfortunately had a Childhood Cancer you

can apply for this scholarship which is

pretty crazy to think like that's how

specific this

is so that's why I was trying to get

into write down all of those specific

things about yourself think about

exactly what is special about you um or

something that you have gone through and

overcome that other people have

not that goes into the next one which is

like 9/11 children of parents who either

died or were like disabled in 911 who

are affected by 911

those those children have access to so

many scholarships like it's insane the

amount of 9911 related scholarships

there are but yeah they're they're out

there and then as I mentioned the tall

Club scholarship for students who are

tall I actually applied to this but I I

don't think I got it

but if you're tall go ahead maybe

there's a short Club scholarship too I

don't know I had to check that

out but yeah it's

crazy it's crazy how unusual the

scholarships can

get so yeah think

deep so we talked about every single

type of scholarship in here there's some

categories which I didn't even have room

to include so you can see how deep this

gets you will find your scholarship and

if you apply to that one you're winning

so it's more about finding the correct

scholarship and applying to it well than

applying to a

100 like 100 with your 4.0 GPA and

expecting to

win cuz everyone's got that

um cuz everyone's cuz everyone's got

those stats at this level

and it's like it's equivalent to

applying to an ivy league and and not

like a safety school you want to apply

to the scholarships you actually know

that you can win and that's how you get

that

money now of course we have those

categories right but we haven't talked

about combining the categories so yes

there are all of these categories but

you can also combine the categories you

combine women and stem you get the

Society of women Engineers scholarship

so that's an identity and a major you

com you combine minority and need you

get the gate scholarship that's an

identity and a need-based scholarship so

you can go across categories combine

several categories the more categories

you

combine the less competition you have

because you might be a minority but you

might not have need but if you have both

both now you can apply to this

scholarship that not many people can

apply

to so I'm going to have my full

scholarship list um in the description

I'm going to talk more about this later

um but I'm going to have a I have a

disor Discord Network Community which

updates my full list of scholarships um

with which updates my full scholarship

list constantly so you always have the

latest scholarships um you have access

to the local scholarships for people who

are in that

community and we're going to talk more

about this later on but yeah I have way

more scholarships for you guys I have my

full list in this um

community so now that you actually know

what your scholarships are let's talk

about how you can actually write the

essay to win that money and win those

scholarships and there's a right way to

do this and it's actually a lot simpler

than you think

so the good news is there are actually

six prompts which are the most common

ones that a scholarship is going to ask

you and even better these a lot of these

prompts are going to align with exactly

the same things as your college

applications are so really a lot of the

work you're doing is already done when

you're applying to

college so let's look at what these are

the first three are going to be why do

you need or deserve the this award

what's your major and why and our

mission is blank how will you help or

how do you fit

in so why are these questions being

asked um the why you need SL deserve

this award they want to know if you need

it and if you're qualified to deserve it

basically so you're going to want to

write about your financial need um why

you think you need this scholarship to

help you pay for your education um

things like that now the reason they ask

what's your major which um as you can

tell when you're applying to college is

the same question they're going to ask

you is they want to know what you hope

to do after graduation and how that fits

into your goals if you're a motivated

person how you're going to change the

world if this Scholarship Foundation can

brag about you

basically

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so so you're want to you're going to

kind of want to tie your major in to

big high impact things that you want to

do after you graduate such as helping

people

or even better if you can align that

with what the foundation is interested

in in the third one they're straight up

asking you how are you helping our

mission which is a pretty clear um Point

these foundations under under the

surface of everything under the surface

of all the questions they're going to

ask you it's all to really get down to

this question how do you affect our

mission how do you fit in why should we

pick you um these foundations aren't

really just giving away money just

because they need tax benefits they want

to align their scholarship recipients

with either a future employee of theirs

they want to be able to brag about

you as someone they have invested in and

the investment PID

off so how can you impact their mission

how can you move forward their

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purpose okay the other the next three is

going to be what is a failure you've

overcome how would you solve a problem

this like a prompt that they're going to

give you or what is your most

significant activity or achievement

these are the six prompts that you see

over and over again obviously there's

going to be outliers but if you can

reuse these this is the best thing

ever why are they asking about a failure

you've overcome they want to know about

your resilience your

growth don't Focus so much on the

failure

um obviously you don't want to make

yourself look bad but you also want to

talk about something serious

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why the reason they might give you

prompt five is they're trying to

see

uh the reason they might give you prompt

five is to be honest this is just like

they ran out questions or something they

want to figure out if you're creative

they want to remember you so put

something down that memorable that is

the most important thing if they can

remember your application out of

hundreds out of thousands you're going

to to have a way to stand out and that's

what is important it doesn't really

matter how you solve a problem if it's

effective if it's even realistic all

that matters is being

memorable now prompt number six they

want to understand what you value who

you are who your character is what

motivates you sure you could put your

most important award your most

impressive accomplishment but you should

probably highlight something that aligns

with their mission that shows the kind

of person you are maybe you've won

something maybe you've like been awarded

the national Medal of Honor but maybe

you choose to write about your 300

volunteer hours in this for this prompt

because the organization cares about

service and helping

others okay so here's an example of a

question and how I would potentially

respond obviously the response is cut a

little bit short so it's

abbreviated so for the why do you need

the scholarship let's say that's a

question how do you respond to this

let's look at this this scholarship

would allow me to focus on my studies

and research without the burden of

financial

stress obviously if you have more of a

need-based

um if you're if you have more of a need

based issue go more in depth with this

if you're if you're really applying for

scholarships just to like easier

Financial burdens just write something

something more simple that says I can

focus on my my research without the

burden of financial

stress um and then obviously they expand

into more importantly I'd be empowered

to continue innovating and invest and by

investing in me you're not just funding

a student you're supporting a future

engineer dedicated to solving real world

problems so there they go ahead and

elaborate on how this isn't just them

spending money on a student they're

investing in someone who cares about the

world and who's going to change the

world make yourself into the person they

want to invest

in so I'm sure you've heard the saying

the customer is always right I'm taking

that saying and putting a spin on it the

foundation is always right what does

that mean I've already alluded to this

multiple times in this section you need

to be answering in a way that makes the

foundation want to give you money and

not because you're some special great

person who's done amazing things but

because you're the person who is perfect

for this foundation and for carrying out

their mission because you are dedicated

and you're going to make it happen

so in these questions where it says our

mission is blank this is the most

important question more important than

your achievements than your GPA anything

is how do you relate to this Foundation

you could apply to any scholarship why

are you applying to this one so our

mission is supporting the transportation

industry how will you help this person

is a computer science major they

probably haven't thought about

transportation that much but there's a

nice way to write this answer answer as

you'll see as a computer science and

electrical engineering major at MIT I am

passionate about using my engineering to

positiv positively impact the world I am

excited by opportunities to apply my

engineering major towards the

transportation industry I have secured

an internship with the state government

to analyze traffic patterns to reduce

congestion now this isn't the

greatest tie into the transportation

industry in the world but it is

something you have some amount of proven

history like that you might be

interested in the transportation

industry to go on with this response I

would include things about what I hope

to do in the transportation industry in

the

future so even though you might not be

able to say that you are the best person

for the transportation industry you need

to find things that you've done and how

they relate to the transportation

industry you you need to find

ways you need to find ways in which

you're going to help the transportation

industry and maybe you do those things

maybe you don't don't lie but plans

change uh things shift around but make

sure you can somehow make it look like

you're someone who can actually do what

they want you to do be the kind of

person they want to brag about on their

little post on their website

they don't want to brag about the person

who's coded an app they want to brag

about the person who's analyzing traffic

patterns to reduce congestion for the

state

government okay so now we know how to

write the winning essay let's talk about

strategy a little bit this is going to

be the shortest section because strategy

really varies among each person I'm

going to go over a basic Str strategy

that I used which is obviously apply

early there's certain things you're

going to want to apply basically a month

out there are certain things you can

like plan out you can do your basic info

like a week in the first week that's

nothing outline your essays request your

letters of recommendation a lot of

scholarships require letters of wreck

and you need to get a recommender down

who can continuously provide keep

spitting out letters of recck to all of

your all of your scholarship

applications they are invaluable so make

sure you have that

relationship let's see and then of

course revise your essays the the essays

should be reusable from your college

applications that is the strategy here

you take essays that you've done you

repurpose them make sure you're

repurposing them well don't leave out

don't leave in Old information Etc

but yeah once you get going it's so much

easier to apply to other scholarships

you can use previous scholarship

applications you can use all of the work

you've already done it accumulates it's

not like a new application after you've

done a

few and then apply to hundreds and like

I said yes this seems daunting but you

have to do it and this is how you win

and you have the essays to use to apply

to to these because they're reusing

they're re they're reusing prompts

you're going to reuse essays and unless

they say specifically say don't but 90%

of these scholarships are getting chat

GPT essays by by simply writing your own

essays you're already ahead of 50% of

the applications right and so you're

going to want to apply to a lot of

scholarships low dollar medium dollar

high dollar all all of them all of them

should be applied to don't leave out

some because you feel like it's too low

money for you if you want that if you

want that scholarship you start at the

bottom and you work your way up don't

only apply for the top full tuition

scholarships and be disappointed when

you get

nothing those little ones add up really

fast and then of course optional step

you can go ahead and give back compile a

list of your scholarships um this is why

I made this video to give back to you

guys um give give my knowledge out put

my knowledge out there to show you guys

how I did how I got my how I'm how I'm

able to win half a million in

scholarships and the list that I have

which going into it my full scholarship

list is going to be available for you

guys in the description

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under my Discord Community for my gold

members um the Discord Community as I

mentioned in a previous video is a

network where we're all helping each

other out with um we're all high

Achievers we're all helping each other

out with our college applications with

our scholarship apps we're finding

scholarships for each other we're

updating that list continuously we're

finding local scholarships so that you

can stay on top of

things everyone in that Community has

eyes on the same topic and that's how

you get ahead that's what a network is

that's what a community is and that's

what we're building so go ahead and join

that down

below we're going to have ivy league

mentors um if you're a gold member

you're going to be able to do a group

meeting with me once a month and I'm

going to go over um college applications

I'm going to go over like tutorials

exactly like this scholarship guide and

of course you're also going to get

access to my resume template and full

scholarship list which includes all the

categories for high schoolers for

college students um for international

students all the categories need-based

everything it's in there now you can

find this stuff on your own guys it's

not like some secret gatekeeping

information I'm just I'm just providing

this to you as an option to Save hours

of research this will really speed

things up if you guys are serious about

applying to a lot of scholarships as I

mentioned

um so yeah consider

that and yeah thank you all for watching

this video congratulate yourself for

getting through the end most people

don't get through the end of these

videos now the next step is to go and

apply the actionable steps I gave you in

this video but before you do that make

sure you comment down below three of the

scholarships you're going to apply to in

this video that you saw in this video so

that you you can stay

accountable and I want you to come back

after you win that scholarship and tell

me how you did it because I believe in

you guys you guys can do it let me know

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