Reusable Materials 11: Reuse Your Master Application Throughout Life

Thursdays we discuss how reusable materials help you WOW committees and save time
Denise completed her master application and began applying for scholarships. She won more than $160,000 in her sophomore and junior year. She kept updating her master application as she completed more online applications. During her senior year, she started applying for college. She used her master application to complete the school applications. She found her master application very useful to impress the schools. She was accepted to three of the four schools to which she applied. She felt her themes and home run statements helped.

Information on Your Master Application

Your master application contains all the answers that typically appear on school, employment, housing, and utility applications. For example,

• Personal information: name, address, city, state, phone number, email address
• Parent or Guardian information: names, occupations, current and past club memberships
• School information: names, addresses, cities, phone, web site, teachers & counselors
• Academic information: grades, GPA, classes taken, transcripts, test scores
• Work History: job titles, company names, addresses, phone, duties, web sites
• Civic and Volunteer History: organizations, addresses, phones, leaders
• Themes with home run statements for questions about your experience in leadership, academics, athletics, creative talent, service, and other questions

Use Your Master Application to Apply for Schools & Jobs

You will reuse your master application throughout your working life. You will complete applications for multiple schools, jobs, housing, and utilities. Most of the questions requiring answers in the applications are already in your master application.
You can keep your master application current by doing the following:

• Write an answer for every new question you encounter
• Add a home run statement for each month you are on your job
• Complete information for companies about every job you obtain
• Add information about the post-high school education you attend
• Add new home run statements from your extracurricular activity

As always, remember, create your master application on the cloud so that you can access it anywhere in the world. Ask someone to review and edit it annually.
Saturday we share a tip about how and when to start working on scholarships