Reusable Materials 9: Social Media Enhances Your Scholarship Message

Thursdays we discuss how reusable materials help you WOW committees and save time-

Evelyn prepared a great master application, reusable essays, and letters of recommendation. The search engines listed she qualified to receive more than 150 possible scholarships. Her themes included service, leadership, and academics. Luckily, Evelyn liked posting about her life on Facebook. She commented on service projects, science fairs, debate competitions, and more. She and her friends took lots of pictures on their phones and posted them too. More than one scholarship committee commented about what they saw on her Facebook page.

Post Comments and Pictures on Facebook

Scholarship committees review applicants’ social media posts. You can enhance your success when your social media collaborates the home run statements in your application. The timeline feature of Facebook, for example, let’s you outline a chronological history of your themes.

We recommend that you take pictures at the following events and post them, and other comments, in social media:

• Leadership activities in your school, church, or community
• You presiding at a school assembly, club meeting, or social activity
• You conducting meetings at a church camp, dance, or Sunday School class
• Successes your leadership created by increasing attendance, participation, donations, or service
• Service projects you did for your community, church, or school. Include you and a group
• Assembling supplies for victims of natural disasters
• Cleaning a widow’s yard, battered women’s shelter, park, or highway
• Delivering presents disadvantaged family for a Sub-for-Santa, birthday, or other special event
• Math, science, spelling, or other academic competitions
• Science projects or fairs that you compete include any awards you receive
• Spelling bees, writing, or math competitions
• Creative endeavors that you perform or participate in
• Video of you performing a musical solo, marching band halftime show, choir or drama performance
• Poems, articles, or compositions you submit to contests, publications, or blogged
• Art, videos, games, or photographs you produced

Avoid Sharing Potentially Negative Comments or Pictures

Some people publish pictures of them drinking, partying, or other potentially embarrassing moments—Don’t. They will be seen by others. You may lose scholarships.

Saturday we share a caution about scholarship financial planners