Archives for the 'Scholarships' Category
For Students: Frequently Asked Scholarship Questions
By Josh Barsch
Hola, students. As a major private-scholarship provider for more than five years now, we get a lot of questions that come in every day about our programs. There are tons of them, but over five years, we’ve heard just about every concern that you guys have (By the way, you’ve also helped us find and fix the occasional technical bug, the occasional typo, etc., which we appreciate very much.).
To that end, I’d like to post some of our most frequently asked questions about our scholarship programs here. Please bookmark this page — I’ll be updating it frequently in the future, as more questions come in. For now, though, feel free to sift through what I’ve got here. If you have a question that needs to be answered and you don’t see it here, feel free to post it in a comment, and then I’ll edit the blog post later with the answer you need.
Thanks!
Josh
How many words does the essay need to be?
There isn’t a minimum or maximum number of words that your essay needs to be. I had a journalism professor when I was at Southeast Missouri State University who told me that my stories should be “as long as …
For Scholarship Applicants - “Page Two” Error
By Josh Barsch
I know there are lots of students on our site who are here to apply for scholarships, so I wanted to take a second to address a problem that some of you are having when you apply online here on the site. We know that some of you are having a problem getting to page 2 of the scholarship application (the one with the essays on it). It’s a very small percentage of you guys who are having this problem, but it’s still happening consistently, so I want to bring you up to speed on what . From what you guys are telling us, the problems takes shape in one of two ways:
1) You fill out the information on page 1, hit “submit,” and the second page just waits and waits and never loads; or
2) You fill out the information on page 1, hit “submit,” and the second page loads — but the rest of the form doesn’t appear.
Here’s the deal: First of all, don’t worry — you can still apply and have your essay considered along with everyone else’s. If you’re having either of the problems, you can email Robert, our scholarship coordinator, and tell him …
Josh Barsch founded StraightForward Media in 2001 after a brief career in print journalism. He now lives in the sticks of western South Dakota with his wife Christina, daughter Mia, son Ezra, two dogs Velvet & Holly, and cat Chanceux, all of whom he loves dearly. And four nameless hermit crabs, for whom he feels nothing.