Scholarship involves managing financial aid opportunities and promoting academic excellence among students. Highlight your leadership roles, relevant coursework, and any volunteer experiences that demonstrate your commitment to education. Consider incorporating analytical thinking, communication, and problem-solving abilities into your resume. Additionally, mentioning quantifiable achievements and any awards or recognitions can effectively illustrate your contributions and strengths.
All Resume Templates Andrew ClarkLooking to change the world of journalism one story at a time Accepted for a Digital Journalism degree at Southeastern University
+1-217-964-5039 help@enhancv.comHigh school senior, planning to compete BA degree in Digital Journalism, with passion for objective and ethical storytelling. Maintaining a 4.0 GPA with special focus on English Language and Literature to get inspired by practices from some of the best literary works. Contributor to the Ursa Daily Reports newspaper with 3 opinion and 1 investigative piece per week to showcase student life. The piece on "Our lunch lady: insight into the day-to-day life of Ms. Karen" helped raise +5K in funding for Ms. Karen's life-saving surgery. Serving food to 100+ people in need at our local soup kitchen.
Experience Contributor and Author 2018 - Present Ursa Daily Reports The student-led daily newspaper and bulletin comes in print and digital format.Pitched up to 5 original ideas/ week for the opinions segment: responsible for realizing 75% with original interviews and reviews
Canvased among students to find the most interesting topic and wrote 1 investigative piece on the matter/ per, raising readership by 65%
12 articles were nominated for state-wide awards, while 16 pieces won local awards, e.g. "Best New High School Voice", "Local Investigation of the Year", "Young People's Opinion of 2022"
Food Kitchen Volunteer 2020 - Present Ursa Food Shelter Local food kitchen serving dinner, every single night, to people in need. Joined a team of 3 other volunteers in serving dinner to +100 people in needEnsured that every single person received a warm welcome: feedback forms mark a rise in 35% more people coming to join us due to our hospitality
Worked 900+ hours in the last year, and was present even during holidays, to make sure that nobody was feeling left behind during the most festive time of the year
Summer Library Internship 2022 - 2022 Ursa Local Library With the new library's opening, help was needed to sort and organize the +30K catalogue. Sorted nonfiction catalog of 15K+ books using the Dewey Decimal Classification SystemHelped the librarian to select new books to increase the library catalogue by 12%, while staying relevant to the younger generation
Catalogued 1k+ books in need of restoration and preparation and helped with the binding and taping of the ones that were least damaged (500 books)
Dean's List 2022 Expected Summa Cum Laude upon graduation. Journalism Storytelling Transcriptions Shorthand (120 wpm) Passion to Help Bachelor of Arts in Digital Journalism Southeastern University Lakeland, FLEarly acceptance for the class of 2027 due to high academic excellence and portfolio of work for the Ursa Daily Reports. Expected start date: September 2023.
High Shcool Diploma Urse High School 2018 - Present Lakeland, FL Scoring a 1570 AVG on SATs, with 1600 on the English Language and Literature segment ObjectivityTaking an objective approach to reporting by seeking out all sides of the story. This has helped me create reports that are 35% more impartial and represent objective journalism in comparison with previous contributors.
When working on investigative pieces, always ensuring that interview release forms are signed and interviewees have waived their consent to be featured in the piece. This strict code of consensual reporting has helped me build a closer relationship with my 150+ local network.
www.enhancv.com Passion For StorytellingAlways looking for the next story - whether in literature or real-life - with a focus on mirroring narrative approach. Just in the past 6 months, have read 120+ pieces of literature and written 96 articles.
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Even in her wildest fantasies, Abby never dreamed she could study on a fully-funded scholarship at Yale.
Yet, a real later, she's halfway into completing her master's in economics, receiving funding of +$50 000 per year.
An integral role in Abby's strategy for success was played by her scholarship resume.
In the highly competitive application process, only the best candidates win scholarships.
So how do you go about making a good first impression on the scholarship committee, responsible for your future?
Step into the shoes of a lawyer.
You'd use all of your professional, personal, and academic choices to argue your case. And prove that you're the best - no, not just the best - but the only candidate worthy of this scholarship.
Your resume is your statement of truth, highlighting all key evidence of
What is more, scholarship resumes allow you to narrate your visions and goals for the future.
At the same time, the professional story you tell should meet the scholarship requirements and expectations.
Scholarship resumes outline why your experience cross-aligns with the funding profile.
Scholarship resumes have the following characteristics; they are
Most often, applicants list their experience in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent/ senior ones.
You may not have realized it, but scholarship resumes are living (breathing) documents reflecting your growth.
That's why there's no "one size fits all approach" to how you'd go about defining your experience.
This very often puzzles most students due to their lack of real-world, professional experience.
Your resume can be more functional based, substituting professional experience with:
While on the topic, let’s look at:
Leaving nothing to chance, when writing your scholarship resume with the 20/40/40 principal.
The principal could help you better frame your time by spending:
That final 40 % actually plays a crucial role in your success. You should focus your efforts to find resources detailing:
Thus, you'd better be able to make the case of how your experience would match the scholarship profile.
Take the time to create one very detailed resume for personal use that lists all your previous roles and achievements.
This long-formed resume backed up in your cloud would help you easily shorten and customize your experience when applying for scholarships and future roles.
Raise your hand if this has happened to you before.
You've set out to write your resume with all the hope, inspiration, and ambition you can muster. But suddenly you hit a full stop with your header.
Take a few steps back and think about the functions of the resume header.
The assessment committee most often uses it to get your contact details and preview your previous projects/work (or LinkedIn presence).
So, make sure you include a link to your:
Demystifying the resume headline is what we'll get into next.
If you have some really noteworthy role or achievement, that aligns with the scholarship requirements, you could use the header to highlight this.
Alternatively, your header could be used to showcase your vision for the future. Answering what you would like to achieve in the big picture of things.
Not sure what we mean by this?
Check out the section of this guide to get a better understanding.
There are three main elements that could be improved in the above example.
The header could be less vague. Doesn’t it sound a bit desperate? Our advice is to substitute the demand (or what you want) with what you can actually achieve.
It’s not a good idea to use your university email account, as, after graduation, most accounts get “retired”. And you may want to reference back to your applications in a couple of years.
Finally, Instagram may not be the best place to showcase the portfolio of work of a Computer Science graduate.
Katherine Osborne Python and Ruby BS Engineer: Vision To Decrease App Vulnerabilities Across The Board +1-703-228-1107 katherineosborne1@gmail.com Blacksburg, VA RIGHTThis header works as it:
While curating your scholarship resume, do you feel too busy fighting alligators to drain the swamp? Put simply, while noting major experience points or skills, do you tend to forget about your objective?
The big WHY. Purpose. Intent. Drive.
Use this section to show the assessment committee why you're the best choice and deserve to win the scholarship.
A strong objective is between three and five sentences and is a declaration of
And to enhance the quality of your vision, it's best to build on your achievement, strengths, and skill set.
Don't just use empty words (e.g "ambitious", "passionate", "caring"), but qualify each.
Thus, you'd be aligning your bigger purposes (and interests) so they stay relevant to the scholarship you're applying for.
Senior high school student with the ambition to continue education with the 16th District PTA Scholarship. GPA 4.0 with high academic achievements. Participating in community service. Passionate about healthcare and innovation.
WRONGThis objective just lists scholarship requirements. It doesn’t even remotely answer why this student deserves the funding.
The only “character points” are the passions, but these aren’t mapped within any experience or achievements.
Senior-year high school student with a vision to integrate big data and cybersecurity best practices to create a multinational healthcare system, accessible to anyone in need. Received the President's Award for Educational Excellence, 8 years in a row, and was elected senior class president. Volunteering at all Red Cross Blood Drives (+50 / year) and at 30+ charity drives to collect new clothes for 5+ local orphanages. Community service helped me better understand the importance of integrated healthcare solutions for all.
RIGHTThis objective section is excellent as
Think outside the box when writing your resume experience section. Make sure to include relevant professional, academic, and extracurricular activities.
The scholarship resume experience section allows you to use your tangible achievements (and results) to hint at what:
While curating this section, consider choosing your best (and most relevant) professional roles. List those reverse chronologically, starting with the most recent roles. You can sort these by seniority and relevance to the scholarship.
The resume experience section could include internships, part-time experience, or lecturing/ teaching opportunities.
In some cases, you may not have much professional experience. Academic committees don't expect you to maintain a 4.0 GPA while managing a team of 12+ junior software engineers.
Showing that you have a healthy study-life-work balance can always be an asset.
So, instead, focus on your academic career.
You can include research, projects, editorial/ contributor, and teaching/tutoring experience.
High school students, applying for a bachelor's scholarship, here's what you can do. Leverage all extracurricular associations (or clubs), sports, and activities you've participated in.
Remember to select all that are relevant to the scholarship. This would highlight your academic contribution and the footprint you've left in the community.
Last, but not least, comes one of the most important areas of your experience.
Community involvement or volunteer positions show a sense of altruism and seeing beyond your own needs.
If the hours you've volunteered are impressive, you can also include those. Don't forget to note what you've achieved in that time frame.
The experience section above goes so far as to list what the student did, without second thoughts to skills obtained.
What is more, you have to be specific in all areas of your experience section, and that includes the role title.
Here’s how this can be improved.
Experience Animal Shelter and Veterinary Volunteer Helping Animals 02/2018 - 11/2021 Huntsville, AL Local organization, aiming to provide free healthcare to 500+ animals/year in Huntsville.Completed 800+ hours of volunteering per year to embody my lifelong passion for helping animals in need
Helped 5 senior veterinarians during 100+ operations by sanitizing areas, preparing all surgery instruments in advance, and taking care of hospitalized animals before and after the medical procedures
Answered 120+ signals from the community about animals, whose living conditions were bad, and coordinated deportation of these animals with the local police force
Applied knowledge from B.Sc. Veterinary degree in the field to enhance patient care quality by 45% RIGHTReading up the above experience section would show committees the students’:
And as a bonus, those hours of community service are pretty impressive.
While each experience may have helped you grow - both personally and professionally - it's important to remember that your resume offers limited space.
On the way to presenting your best qualities, skills, and achievements, keep in mind the following:
Don't end the bullet point with just the action or the indecisive verb, but include what you achieved.
Substitute: "I was responsible for 5 people"
With: "I oversaw the work 5 interns did in research for client briefs, creating a solid basis for implementing 16+ communication strategies"
The more precise you can be about your experience, the more helpful you'd be to committees to better understand what you actually did.
Substitute: "Did research in a lab"
With: "Conducted lab research and 20+ experiments to discover how diets, healthy in nutrition, versus lacking nutrition could impact the human organism in a 30-day-timeframe"
Think about how strong your experience is in the frame of the scholarship.
Sometimes spending every day, after school, in the debate society could be a better item to add to your resume than working four-hour shifts at McDonald's.
Remember how in elementary school you received that teacher's choice award for your painting of a field?
Well, if you're applying for a bachelor's scholarship, this accreditation of your excellence may not be your strongest asset.
Leave the past be in the past and focus on your most recent, noteworthy achievements.
At the core of most scholarship eligibility requirements, you'd find three main elements.
If we're to further break down these three segments, you'd find two types of skills at their cores. Ones that you may have gained through your academic, professional, or personal experience/ growth.
Hard or technical skills are the first type.
These are directly correlated to the field or niche you're specializing in (or looking to specialize in).
It's a good idea to include in your resume the technology, instruments, or tools you've learned to use as a result of your training.
Below, you'd find a list of some of the most popular technical skills for your scholarship resume.
Your resume is expected to balance technologies with personal skills.
As cliché as it may sound, having "ambition", "purpose", and "communication" pop up from your resume at a first glance is a good thing.
Those buzzwords hint that you are aware of the requirements of the scholarship.
Want to take your soft skills section to the next level?
Dedicate a strengths or achievements section in your resume for three specific skills. And highlight those with your achievements.
This would help you build further the case of why you're the perfect applicant for the scholarship.
Results-DrivenSetting up all 200+ lab tests and experiments with the end-goal in mind: always driven to achieve tangible outcomes.
Maintaining a 4.0 GPA, while participating in the nursing practitioners club and volunteering at the Red Cross on weekends, has taught me the subtle art of the work-life balance.
Community CareSet yup 25+ campaigns to inform local communities about the best healthcare practices, including diets, flu shots, and keeping an active life. This has enhanced the quality of the community life by 45%.
RIGHTNow that you’ve some inspiration from the resume strengths section, let’s find out some of the most popular soft skills you can include on your scholarship resume.
Scholarship committee members actually consider your academic excellence when making their choice.
Make sure that the education section of your resume is recent, relevant, and meets expectations. That means…
You could include information about the university you've chosen to attend, with expected starting and graduation dates. Within the education description, remember to note that you are to attend this university if you can secure a scholarship.
The next item on your scholarship resume should be your high school diploma with your GPA. The description section could be used to highlight your interests or extracurricular activities.
Include all higher education diplomas you have (listed in reverse chronological order) with your GPA and extra details to define your niche.
If you've secured scholarships in the past, you could also list those in the description area. Just make sure that they're relevant to the scholarship you're applying for (e.g. leadership or nationally recognized scholarships, like Rhodes).
Don't list your high school education as it's from another era.
Certification would definitely win you a few brownie points during the assessment stage.
They hint that you're serious about the area you'd like to specialize in and that you're willing to go the extra mile.
By investing some of your own personal resources, you showcase that you're serious about the niche and that it's not just a hobby.
Did you know that in most cases, relevant certification could give you that extra competitive edge?
Being recognized as an accredited professional adds more weight to your resume. Transforming your bid from that "guy or gal who does science experiments in their free time, in the school lab," to a certified professional.
And there are so many opportunities out there to get relevant certification for your industry - just check Coursera's endless list of courses.
There are also free opportunities out there that could help you stand apart from other candidates.
Below, we've prepared 21 of the most popular certificates that could serve as a good starting point to show your career interests.
If you haven't had yet the opportunity to mention your awards or honors, well now is the time.
As previously mentioned, your GPA is one-third of how your application will be assessed.
And nothing speaks better to committees than an Honor's Society, Dean's List, or Cum Laude to reinforce your academic merit.
Your award can also be to distinguish your humanitarian or local community work.
Just remember to keep it relevant to the scholarship you're applying for and to provide context under why you received the award.
Instead of: "Volunteer of 2021"
Write: "2021 Soup Kitchen Volunteer Recognition: Serving 665+ meals in the past year to people in need"
