The fact that most other students are not
likely applying for these scholarships actually improves your chances of receiving at least some kind of funding, so get to it!
Not exact matches
Comparing the college enrollment rates of students who were offered a
scholarship to attend private school through the OSP lottery with those of students who
applied for but did not win a
scholarship, we find that students who won the
scholarship were neither more nor less
likely to enroll in college than students who did not win the
scholarship.
In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke University, Parag Pathak of MIT, and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley found that students who received a voucher through the Louisiana
Scholarship Program (LSP) during the 2012 - 13 school year were 50 percent more
likely to receive a failing score on the state math test than students who
applied for but did not receive a voucher.
Follow that advice and look
for any and all
scholarship opportunities that
apply, and you are less
likely to become another unpleasant student loan statistic.
On a
scholarship resume in particular, if you are
applying directly
for a
scholarship, the recipient
likely knows your objective.