Official CollegetoCareers $250 You're In! Scholarship
You're in! So now what? CollegetoCareers.com is awarding its annual scholarships. If you are a high school senior or community college transfer student who has recently been accepted to a four-year college or university, now’s your chance at a scholarship to pay for those pricey textbooks you’ll need in the fall. Just follow the instructions on our scholarship page and submit your post below!
Some important points:
1) How many scholarships we award will be based on the number of applicants.
2) Scholarship recipients will be asked to verify their acceptance and identity.
Awesome! Especially since I was going to do so anyways...
Transfer student here!
Major: Business
Schools Applied To: UCLA (Biz Econ), UCI (Biz Econ), UCSB (Pre-Managerial Accounting), UCD (Pre- Biz Econ), Saint Mary’s College (Business Admin)
UC Accepted To: UCI, UCSB, UCD—rejected from UCLA ):
GPA: 3.4
TAG/TAP:TAG for UCSB and UCD
ECs: President of Younglife College Club, Assistant to an Insurance Agent, Art School on Sunday
Essay: 7/10 Not amazing, but pretty good. I wrote about my work experience at an insurance agency I worked at for Prompt # 1. For prompt #2 I wrote about a personal quality (leadership) and how I discovered his quality about myself through founding and leading a club
Major: Business Admin
Appied to: Berkeley, LA, UCSB, UCSD, UCD
Accepted to: ALL! (:
GPA: 4.0
TAG/TAP: Tags and Taps everywhere!
Prereqs: Done except Microeconomics (will be done by end of Spring)
Breadth (for Berkeley): All done except two
ECs: business development internship at two different startups, paid accounting tutor, relay for life coordinator, student government
Essays: Pretty darn good. I'd have to give them an 8 or 9/10. I worked on them two months in advance (they are online before the application is up) and revised them about a million times. I wrote about my business experience in Prompt #1 and showed the adcoms WHY I want to study business. For Prompt #2, I wrote about how I overcame failure and related to how this is an important idea in the business world as well.
I will be attending Berkeley's Haas School of Business in the fall! WOOT WOOT.
Last edited by indierockkid74; 05-05-2011 at 11:27 AM.
Major: Economics
GPA: 4.00
Applying to: UCB, UCLA (Biz/econ), UCSD, UCI, UCSB, UCD
Prereqs: All completed
IGETC: Done with all by Spring
TAG/TAP: None
ECs: PTK, Math Lab Club, American Red Cross, Math Tutor, Supplemental Instruction Leader
Essay: 9/10 I know everyone says their essays are good. But I really do feel like I'm were 9s. Like Indie I began working on them WAY in advance. I started over the summer and worked with my friend who's an English major at Cal. I wrote about my my passion for dance for prompt #2 and how volunteering with PTK and the American Red Cross made me interested in Economics.
Other: Presidential Award (Bronze)
Wow, I can't believe what a great scholarship opportunity this is. Thank you guys for setting this up. Here is my submission:
Screen shot of my acceptance letter to UCSD: ucsd.jpg Major: Economics
GPA: 3.9
Applied to: UCD, UCI, UCSB, UCSD (Management Science), UCLA, UCB
Prereqs: Completed by spring
IGETC: Done by Spring
TAG/TAP: n/a
ECs: 2 leadership roles in clubs related to major, internship related to major, honors society
Essay: 8/10. Nothing groundbreaking, but decent essays (I described how I came to choose economics as my major through an internship experience I had over the summer of 2009)
Last edited by Moragaguy06; 05-05-2011 at 11:56 AM.
Major: Business Admin (UCB and UCI), Business Econ (UCLA), Management Science (UCSD
GPA: 4.0
TAG/TAP: TAG for UCSD, TAP for UCLA
Units: 48 by end of fall, 66 by end of spring (still need 3 classes for major, will be done with igetc)
Schools: UCLA, UCB, probably UCSD and UCI (considering some out-of-state schools on East Coast)
ECs: Intern at Greenpeace, Intern at a startup, math and accounting tutor, student government, President of the stocks club
Essays: I described the my childhood days of working with my father in his accounting firm and how it really influenced my passion for business
Rating: I think I did a decent job on them so I'd give them both an 8 out of 10. Could have spent more time on them though =/
Ex curriculars: President of pingpong club, senator, intern at crissy fields,
In my first essay, i wrote about how ping pong is a challenging sport, and in my second esssay i wrote about saving the environment, this didint matter at all to me cuz i had a TAG to UCSB:
Accepted to: UCR, UCSC, UCSB
Applied to: UCR, UCSC, UCSB, Cal, UCD, UCSD
Decided: UCSC
Major: Bioengineering
GPA: 3.3
Activities: Marching Band, Chess Club
Personal Statement Essays: I wrote about how I came to be interested in science from a young age. I also wrote about being a returning student, and the challenges I faced in restarting my academic career.
Self Grade: 6 or 7 out of 10 on writing. It has been a couple years since I've taken an English class.
Special Circumstances: I failed out of college at age 20, Return at age 23 and have spent the last 3 years making up my old F's and relearning how to be a student. I encourage people of all ages to pursue an education if they desire, there's no such thing as "too old to learn."
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