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sydneyfranke
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Just a quick question. I have some essays to write for this scholarship and I just wanted to maybe get some insight into what committees often look for.
I have 3 of the five written so far, and I really just tried to be genuine and personable. Is this a wise route or should I go more strict and direct?
Also, there is a maximum character for these essays. 3 are 1500 character and 2 are 1000 character (I don't know why they call these essays, that's barely a paragraph). Anyways, I've gone over on pretty much all of them. Its an electronic application and the text box counts spaces as a character. Is this going to be a problem? I think its going to take me longer to shorten it that it did to write the darn thing. One I'm about 300 characters over (1500 max) and the other around 120 over (1500 max), and I got the other one down to 51 characters (1000 max). Is this something that is going to be frowned upon? I realize they have quite a few to read and so they don't have time to read some sap's life story, but I don't really know how to shorten these up any more without making them seem incomplete. But I don't want to come off right out the gate as someone who can't follow instructions.
Anyways, any help would be appreciated.
I have 3 of the five written so far, and I really just tried to be genuine and personable. Is this a wise route or should I go more strict and direct?
Also, there is a maximum character for these essays. 3 are 1500 character and 2 are 1000 character (I don't know why they call these essays, that's barely a paragraph). Anyways, I've gone over on pretty much all of them. Its an electronic application and the text box counts spaces as a character. Is this going to be a problem? I think its going to take me longer to shorten it that it did to write the darn thing. One I'm about 300 characters over (1500 max) and the other around 120 over (1500 max), and I got the other one down to 51 characters (1000 max). Is this something that is going to be frowned upon? I realize they have quite a few to read and so they don't have time to read some sap's life story, but I don't really know how to shorten these up any more without making them seem incomplete. But I don't want to come off right out the gate as someone who can't follow instructions.
Anyways, any help would be appreciated.