What are your personal and academic goals and how would this scholarship help you achieve your goals?
How will achieving these goals prepare you for new opportunities?
in addition to writing about why I would select a specified major and what I’d potentially want to do after graduating, what else could I conclude? I have about 300 words and need at least 500.
I agree with the above. It sounds like you covered your major, now talk about your career and life goals, how you want to be a productive member of society and how.
Is this a school based scholarship, or an external one?
I suggest thinking about your values (and how you developed them) and consider including that in your essay. We think of values as personal but they are also connected to our academic and professional goals.
Yes, I want to say more about this but I do not know the precise employment I would have after I would complete a degree so how do I expand upon this?
As example, say someone wants to be a K-12 teacher or a nurse. Obviously nurses contribut to the health and well-being of individuals. Teachers help educate children and can contribute to their personal growth.
Say just that…I am not sure of my career goals but want to make a difference by doing X or X. It’s important for me to X and X. Weaving in your values will be helpful, I don’t think ‘loyalty’ is on the right track.
Of course if you need to specify a career for this scholarship (again if we knew the school or sponsoring org it might help posters give better advice), then you would write about that.
Have you covered the basics of the scholarship before moving onto larger goals? Will it make it affordable for to go away to college? Will this scholarship give you the chance to become more involved in a group on campus or take on a research or volunteer activity due to not having to work? Does it make it possible to add an exploratory class? Does the scholarship offer potential mentoring or traveling?
I mentioned above in one of my posts in this thread that I value achievement and education and that taking courses and completing a degree program would help fulfill these values.