Archive for the ‘Study Tip’ Category
August 6th, 2009
How do you win a scholarship? Perhaps the easiest way if you have an essay is to enter the eduify.com Wunderkind Scholarship contest. Beyond doing what you can to get the most votes for the essay you submit to the eduify scholarship contest, you can also win other scholarships by taking the application process seriously. Put your best effort into winning a scholarship and you raise your chances significantly. Don’t send generic, canned scholarship applications out. Scholarship admissions committees can tell when an applicant is half-heartedly applying or not taking the application process seriously enough, so why risk losing a scholarship for lack of effort?
How do you take the scholarship application seriously? We’ve already shown you how to write a stellar scholarship essay. Now, we’ll show you how to put together a great scholarship package.
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August 4th, 2009
There’s no doubt about it: scholarship essays are a tricky matter to approach. Scholarship competitions often arrive at your doorstep during the last half of the school year, by far the most hectic time in the academic year when students are already bogged down with extracurriculars, final exams, looming end-of-year grades, not to mention stress-inducing standardized tests. More often than not, high-schoolers focus on their “real schoolwork” and procrastinate on the “optional schoolwork” of scholarship applications, to the point where they end up scrambling, up to the final hours, to turn in shoddy, half-hearted applications, essays, and personal statements to a host of scholarship competitions they actually would have had a good chance of winning, had they simply believed in themselves more and taken more time to do a job well done. Read the rest of this entry »
July 22nd, 2009
‘Twas the night before the SAT, and all through the house, everybody is stirring, and being loud and obnoxious—especially your little brother who keeps running by your door and pointing at you and laughing…oh, uh, sorry about that. I got a little carried away there for a minute. But, seriously, the night before your SAT or ACT can be chaotic and your nerves may be on edge. But Eduify is here to help! We’ve created this list of things to do the night before the test, so it doesn’t turn into the Nightmare before the SAT.
You’ve been preparing for this test for the last year—reading SAT or ACT guides, attending study groups, taking practice tests—and the time has finally come. The test is tomorrow. This is it…your entire future rests on this single test and if you don’t do well, you’re going to be flipping burgers at McDonald’s for the rest of your life. Actually, it’s not that big a deal. Even if you don’t score well on the SAT or ACT, you can always take it again; so take a deep breath and have a nice, relaxing night to make sure you’re physically and mentally prepared for the big test.
Stay Home – Even though half your school is taking the test with you tomorrow, some of your classmates are still out on the town tonight. Maybe they invited you along. Don’t do it. There will be another party tomorrow night, and, if you do well on the test, you’ll have something to celebrate rather than vituperate. Read the rest of this entry »
July 20th, 2009
What are 4 things to do on your college visit and 3 things to avoid doing? Read our tips after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »
July 16th, 2009
So you’ve been accepted to a university. It’s smooth sailing from here on out, right? You’re going to breeze through your senior year, live it up during your last summer at home, and move off to your college town. It’s a good plan, but if you actually want it to work, you’re going to have to dodge the senioritis storm.
Though it’s not an actual clinical disease (as the name suggests), senioritis is real. Perhaps it’s caused by the boost of confidence you get when you receive that college acceptance letter or maybe it’s that there are so many distractions during your senior year…you know, with prom, graduation, and, of course, the parties. And you should be confident and proud and you should enjoy the festivities that go along with senior year, but it’s important to stay focused on your academic and professional ambitions as well.
Eduify has prepared the following list of things you can do to avoid senioritis and to make the transition into college smooth and seamless.
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