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Five Mistakes Not to Repeat on a Scholarship Application

We wrote about ScholarshipPoints.com last month to let you know about their awesome, easy to win scholarships that they give away throughout the  course of the year. 

This month, ScholarshipPoints.com is helping collegiettes even more with a guide to the top five biggest errors people make when they apply for scholarships. Learn from others’ mistakes so you don’t repeat them yourself! 
 
Instead, follow these five tips from ScholarshipPoints.com for how to apply for scholarships!

  1. Apply to public, government-funded scholarships in addition to private ones
  2. Apply for as many scholarships as you can, little numbers add up
  3. Read the instructions on the scholarship application
  4. Pay attention to deadlines
  5. Continue searching for scholarships throughout the course of the year
Stephanie Haven is a freshman at Tufts University where she plans to major in Sociology with a minor in Communication and Media Studies. She enjoys making terrible puns about her Tufts of hair and Jumbo supply of stockpiled food. After college she plans to live in New York City where she hopes to pursue her dream of becoming a journalist. You can find her trying to figure out Twitter @stephaniehaven.