Thousands of students apply for scholarships, but that only means that you need to find a way to differentiate your application and make your presentation stand out from the crowd. There are certain strategies that work much better than others and here are some of the most successful.

Bet on poverty– Being poor in the eyes of Universities may mean something completely different than what society thinks. Even with a very decent income per family you can plead for poverty and try to win the heart of the commission. You will need to provide evidence, tough.

Focus on qualities and potential– If your degrees are not so shiny, switch on presenting extra-curricular activities, your passions or your diverse achievements. The commission might read between the lines and figure out that you have immense potential even if you are not academically gifted.

Get something else– If getting a full scholarship does not work try to apply for getting a partial scholarship and then getting the other part from a different institution. You can also ask for something else like half-price boarding or some other benefits that will do you good.

Focus on the forms – You would be surprised how many students don`t read all the requirements on the form and fill it out in an incomplete or wrong manner. Study the application forms thoroughly and submit and excellent application. If you are applying for a means-tested bursary, make sure that you include all the documents that are needed in order to prove the income per family. Insert a phone number where you can easily be contacted for details.

Find one that interests you– Look for bursaries and scholarships that really interest you because the chances are you will be more likely to qualify and you will write a more heart-felt essay that will impress that commission. If you can, start doing a sport also. Swimming is very much appreciated lately and there are many swimming scholarships on the market.

Follow these strategies and most of all don`t give up. Find your specific approach to the scholarship and make a list of the things that qualify you for a scholarship or bursary and use them in the application form. Take a list of scholarships like the one offered by us and apply to all of them year after year. The general rule is that you need to apply for scholarships a year before the proposed entry date and not later than that.

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77 Responses to The top 5 strategies that will get you a bursary or a scholarship

1. Am glad I saw this. Blessings.

2. I am a 27 years old Kenyan,I did my advanced leval certificate of secondary education back in the year 2008 and qualified to join a University, up to now I have not been able to do so because of funds,My aim was to jOin Makerere university faculty of Law studies.Since 2008 I have been a volunteer worker in an orphanage am looking forward for your help

3. In may village I may be the first person to join a university if I could get this bursery

4. If I happen to accomplish my education I hope no one from my local village will fell to advance in education once am still alive

5. Am a talented athlete by due to economic hardship I don’t have time to express my talent this bursary can lead me to an institution where I can get a chance of sharering my talent with others

6. If I can manage to advance my education I hope I would be the source of protection to the violation of humans right in my country and even in the whole world

7. Post me some of the email addresses of universities giving out scholarships of Engineering

8. hi, i’m kikomeko i just kindly need someone to bursary me

9. my aim is to get bursary because I don’t have someone who is going to pay for my course next year

10. Hi Peter

    Ive signed up for so many scholarship websites and upto now i still havent found any for quantity surveying. It can get really frustrating because i am due to start in September 2013 and as far as progress counts iv only got successful upto securing admission. All i have now is my hopes. Maybe i am looking in the wrong places?

11. Thanks very much mr peter, for your c
    cmunication am very happy for your advice
    and hope to send my full requred dtails soon thanks.

12. nice article.Really loved it.

13. my name is sutaa Francis, a nurse at west gonja hospital in the northern region of Ghana. i have the interest in public health because i believe in prevention than cure. and once people are healthy, it will cut down the budget the individual, family and the entire nation spend on health care delivery. for this reason i did puplic health and allied sciences at the catholic university of Ghana, Fiapre. after a three years practice i plan to go further because my current knowledge and skills is not meeting my target. i therefore applied for further studies and had admission at the university of health and allied sciences at Ho to study health promotion.it is my hope that this course will prepare me help people gain control over their own health, however the cost of the programme is 6,000 euro which is difficult for me to afford, i am therefore asking for financial support to enable me study the course. thank you.

14. i would really wish to get this opportunity but will require your assistance so that i can achieve these.
    thanks

15. thank u vry much 4 u information’anyway i hav tried bt invain ‘

16. This is a very good and I do appreciate.

    Thanks

17. Thank you very much.I do appreciate your good heart of helping such needy students on such important issues of great concern.

18. To whom it may concern:

    Warn Greetings!

    I am always been a dreamer and ambitious ever since. I always make it to the point that everything would fall under my plans.I always tend to compete and strive hard in every field I am certainly into. Basically I am most likely an achiever. I am not taking this as negative manner . I know this may sound cliche but the only reason why i’m doing this, is to make my parents prouder and want to make them feel even though they do not have a perfect son but at least i could possibly brought them in tears seeing their child doing everything just to make them feel happy and feel prioritized.

    With all pride, My father used to be a cigarette vendor standing outside and follow people begging to buy for a cigarette every dawn at a night club and my mother is a well-loved janitor in the company she has been staying with for almost 2 decades. They may not be the highest paid employees in industry but they were able to find ways to shoulder our needs or wants and even sent us to one of a prestigious university of our country.

    Nevertheless, through this opportunity i will be able to give back whatever my parents have done for us. Nothing can never beat the feeling of seeing their parents teary-eyed because their children are achieving something better by themselves and knowing they are the inspiration behind everything .The bottom line is, It is not what i have achieved but what important most it is how my parents feel on what i have or will achieve someday. I have many to say but I choose to make it as shorter as possible for you to feel what really my heart would like you to feel.

    Looking forward to hearing your respond. I would be more than happy to have a talk with you at the time you feel most convenient . You can reach me at skype janelle.brioso or mobile number (+63)9339982344.

19. I am glad that you are giving us detailed information about this financial assistance. Perhaps i will be a part of those to be ggiven this.thankx

20. Poverty is a sickness in Africa , and I am effected by this sickness please I am in need of this scholarship to continue my education. please help me to get the application form

21. dear sir
    abhi scolarship nhi mili hai. pleas sir scolarship di jay

22. Can you please send application form for teaching bursary,2014 form

23. My interested fields are
    Human RESOURCES Mgt
    ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR
    MANAGEMENT
    STRATEGIC MGT

24. I am B.Com(H)with 68.88% under VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY (REGULAR).I request you for get a scholarship for next study.

25. I do apply for sholarship simply becouse i come from ahumble family of single parent .whereby my mother can not affort to pay my school fees becouse of finantial incapability. I did my KCSE last year and i managed to score a C PLUS.I WOULD WISH TO STUDY ACCOUNTANCY IN KENYA SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING AT KISUMU AM A FEMALE.HOPE YOU WILL ADHERE TO MY REQUEST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME THIS HUMBLE CHANCE OF APPLICATION .RECIEVE MY GREETINGS

26. thank you very much for those excellent tips am very impressed i have tried several of them but unfortunately am always left out narrally idon’t know what God has for me in store but will keep trying one day i will succeed God bless you

27. precious offer. am longing to find it.
    joseph, Turkana county, Kenya

28. How do i apply for these bursaries scholarships?

29. It is my geat prevelage to be part of applying scholarship in your good office as a poor and belong to the lower class in the society especially educational attainment, I am happy for this opportunity if I am qualified for this scholarship.ty

30. expain the details

31. this information has been very helpful.Thank you for helping;)

32. I WILL BE HAPPY IF YOU GRANT ME YOUR HIGHLY RESPECTED BURSARY TO FIGHT AGAINST A CHRONIC POVERTY IN MY FAMILY . PLEASE SIR/MADAM I AM THE LAST HOPE OF MY SINCE NONE OF MY FAMILY MEMBER HAS BEEN IN A TERTIARY INSTITUTION BEFORE ALL IN THE NAME OF POVERTY.I HOPE MY APPLICATION CONSIDERABLE CONSIDERATION THANK YOU

33. Hi, I am very glad for continual information.It has given me the energy and zeal to keep pressing on, by the grace of God. Many thanks to you as I await your kind assistance.

34. hello, am Derrick Kinful, an HND in marketing holder from Ghana and likes playing football, please i need a scholarship to continue my education. Thank you

35. wow that is a vey interesting but lets say you have already been admitted at a university?

36. I am a student second year from one university in our country,please i am looking for scholarship to support my education.
    Hoping to hear from you soon

37. Thank you for the tips
    they enlighten us

38. At first,i would like to congratulate the organisation that has brought this helpful and mervelleous scholarship that helps the poor,academic gaint and many others.In fact,iam senior four leaver,South Sudanese by nationality and i fall under the poorest people and my academic records are also well off.For that reason,i would like to help me and your consideration will be highly appreciated.

39. Thanks peter but i want you to guide me how to get a scholarship because i need to go back to school please

40. Thanks for the help. I have all the skills needed to be successful in any company. If only somebody give me the opportunity.

41. I am not getting bursaries which will suit me and don’t know how to apply for bursaries

42. thanks
    this is simplicio from uganda i love education and am really so pleased to apply and compete becausea i fill i have all the requirements that suits tis offer.
    please provide me with or send me a link that contains the application form
    good byee

43. I only need a scholarship since you have known my weakness please take note of my problem and provide me with the scholarship, I would like to make a master degree in business administration or any in the social work

44. Thanks very much for this advice. I am grateful for information.

45. Thanks for the information. I will strictly follow the strategies when I am applying next time.

46. I have learned a lot and I will be happy to get more information from you. Thanks

47. thanks for the stategies, let me practice them.

48. Hai.I need a scholarship application form and bursary application form.Im at varsity my first year towards analytical chemistry.

49. THANKS A LOT.HONESTLY,THIS IS VERY ENCOURAGING

50. THANKS FOR THESE SUGGESTIONS, PLS SAY ANY MORE WEBSITES FROM WHICH I CAN GET SCHOLARSHIP FOR FURTHER EDUCATION,ENGINEERING

51. I appreciate the help rendered

52. i will be the lucky one

53. Sir,
    Thanking you,
    Our organisation is a state level ngo working since 1994 till today.For some information kindly visit-www.wcwsorissa.com and if possible please send your promotional programme grant-in-aid activities like Road Safety,Climate Change etc.guideline and format application form for our organisation as soon as possible.Yours faithfully
    Mrs.Minati Bindhani,General Secretary

54. dear sir ,

    iam doing bhms course from sri saty saihomeopathy medical science college in dharwad ,karnataka, india , my father unable to give my expenses please help for study, as poor student i need helf from you please help me as early as possible ,
    your faithfully
    Ms.shabnam.

55. Dear sir ,

    i am a bhms student of sri satya sai homeopathy medical science college ,affidt,rajiv gandhi univrsity college delhi,dharwad ,karnataka ,india,my father unable to give my college expenses for further study ,please help me for study i want to become a good doctor in homeopathy ,as a poor student iam going to request with you please help me as early as possible .
    your faithfully
    Ms.shabnam

56. am a second year student offering bachelor’s of science in palliative care at Makerere university in Uganda and am in need of education support to complete my course for academic year 2014/2015 worth $600.

57. i would love to discuss some details with you over the phone call on +256750888824

58. very usefull..thank you!!!!!!!!!

59. I have read the message sent irequest to be helped by any body where it is possible or even i could study in uganda if iget people to help me.thanks Edith

60. Thankyou, very much for i will be grateful if my request is granted positively.

61. your strategies are very convincing and i bet any one looking for a scholarship like me would rely on that… thanks

62. thankms so much, this information was so usefull.

63. Thank you for the good information.
    -Can I get a burser or scholarship even if I don’t leave in the U.S.
    -Can I use scholarship or burser that is advertise by one university or Country to study in a different university or Country.

64. thank’s,

65. Hi….
    I said that about scolarship

66. my names are jimoh adefunke.i need a sponsor

67. I am so pleased to see this information since am being admitted to makerere university for a master in human resource management but i have no source of funding for it yet i have agreat vision after this study

68. This opportunity is amazing. It provides one a chance to pursue an education best fitted to ones capacity.

69. you have given to me the clue to get on the top

70. I will be more grateful if I can get a bursary I am a hard student willing to study further with my studies but I cant afford due to financial problem

71. am just eager to study abroad and further my studies

72. I’m a presently grade12 learner so I’m worried on how I will further up my studies as I don’t have parents just on my own so I am willingly to further my studies as I’ve applied in one of the best university so I will do all the best .. Can u assist me if u can

73. Thanks for your guidelines and advice.I am a registered general nurse (diploma).I wants would be glad if get scholarships to study medicine.

74. Thanks for your guidelines and advice.I am a registered general nurse (diploma).I would be glad if get scholarships to study medicine.

75. Thanks for your guidelines and advice.I am a registered general nurse (diploma),an HIV/AIDS coordinator .I would be glad if i get scholarships to study medicine.This, i hope will help contribute raise the lifes of people leaving with the disease .

76. hi, i’m a freshmen college student. my parents cannot send me to school so i supposed to support myself,but now i. i can’t imagine if i can continue my dreams.. is there anyone who has a kind heart can support me?

77. Am a 20 years old Ugandan by nationality
    I completed my high school in 2012
    and i was to join Makerere University
    in Accountancy
    but living with a single mother who is a peasant farmer i failed to join because she couldnt raise the University turtion.
    My dream is to become a professional Account in my country Uganda and also support children From poor families like mine in future after my dreams come true.
    I therefore ask from you to help me get a suitable scholarship that can make ma dreams come true.