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Rank: Frosh
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/4/2008
Posts: 25
Location: canada
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Okay, so I've gotten a few small scholarships, but I'm hoping to step it up this year. I'm wondering, with my experience and if I wrote a good essay, what my chances are of getting a scholarship? (ANY scholarship...).
If you have any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.
Participate in any extracurricular activities?
• Swimming
• counterattack club (including cancer all Nighter and 30 hour famine)
• anime and gamers club
• youth action club helper
• choir soloist
• badminton club
• PE Leadership
Participate in school events?
• volunteered in the library
• counterattack club (including cancer all Nighter and 30 hour famine)
• anime and gamers club
• youth action club helper
• choir soloist
• badminton club
• PE Leadership
Get involved in sporting events?
• free throw competition
• swimming lessons (I hope to get my life guarding once I’m not working full time)
• lunchtime floor hockey leagues
• PE Leadership
• badminton club
Volunteer anywhere?
• School library
• Vancouver international childrens festival
• Burnaby art gallery
• Healthy Kids Preschool Fair
• Homeless Count 2008
• Counterattack Club
• Helping out Youth action Club
Awards and Honours:
• choir soloist
• Talent shows (2) singing
• art piece in “arts alive” contest (#18 of 100)
• S.T.A.R. recognition card
• employee of the month
• student of the week (2 consecutive weeks)
• winner of 2002 free throw competition
• winner of 100+ hours volunteer award
• honour roll (graduated with honours)
Jobs:
• DayCamp leader
• PNE
• chocolates shop
• Campus Library
• McDonalds
• Griffin House
• Babysitting
Leadership Experience:
• PE Leadership
• DayCamp leader
• Key Volunteer for Vancouver international childrens festival
Grades:
Grade 11: 76%, B average (REALLY BAD, I actually failed two courses and had to repeat one. It doesn't show up in records though).
Grade 12: 90% an A average
College First Year: 85%, A- average
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Rank: Student Body Vice-President
Groups: Member
Joined: 6/5/2008
Posts: 927
Location: Edmonton, AB
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There are so many scholarships out there, of course you're going to win something. I don't think your extracurriculars or grades are exceptional enough to win some of the HUGE ones however. But those little ones definitely add up. A lot of universities have academic excellence ones that you can win for having over a certain GPA (usually a 3.5) see if yours does.
University of Alberta - Mechanical Engineering '11
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Rank: Frosh
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/4/2008
Posts: 25
Location: canada
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Yeah, I'm thinking of trying to up my grades and volunteering more. The main problem was that I have been working ALL THE TIME so it makes it hard to have time for extracurriculars and volunteering. I know that this seems like a cop-out, but I have been working two jobs for all of the last two years. SO I guess I should just step it up? Any other replies would be greatly appreciated.
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Rank: Student Body President
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/5/2008
Posts: 1,704
Location: Wilfrid Laurier University
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36.74%.
-Stringer
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Rank: Frosh
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/4/2008
Posts: 25
Location: canada
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Hah! funny. oh well, that's a better percentage than what i was expecting anyways.^^
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