<p>I am currently a college student and after looking at my school's scholarship list I found out that I qualify for a couple of the internal scholarships that they offer. I am planning on applying to all of them and so far have completed one application. The deadline of the applications is around mid march, probably because of all the freshmen entering and trying to make up their minds on whether or not they want to go to my school. Anyways, the scholarships that I am applying for require some type of essay that tells the reader about personal experience and why I should be picked for the scholarship. I already wrote my essay and submitted it with the first scholarship application. My question is should I use the same scholarship essay for all scholarship applications or should I write similar, but different essays for each application. By the way I am a freshman.</p>
<p>What are the scholarships for and what is the prompt for each scholarship? Usually different scholarships have a different emphasis/prompt and therefore require at least slightly different essays that are tailored for them.</p>
<p>Prompt is:
Write an essay that describes your background and characterizes your educational and career aspirations also tell us why we should consider you for this scholarship.</p>
<p>It’s the “this scholarship” part that is important. For instance, if one is about biology and the other is medicine, you could have some duplication but also have a slightly different slant in each. </p>
<p>If you are applying to several different scholarships, it seems like each should be aimed towards a different discipline/areas of interest/etc., even if they have the same prompts.</p>
<p>Well they are not necessarily subject based scholarships. In other words they don’t have a major listed, the scholarships that I am applying for are for everyone attending, planning to attend my college. Yes, there are two I believe that have a preference of kids that live in a particular area of the state, but other than that the scholarships are general and for everybody. Wouldn’t that make it ok to submit the same essays for the general ones and spice up a little the other ones that have preferences?</p>