October 26, 2009
Posted by Sam Jackson
Shortest Scholarship App Ever: The Twitter 140 Scholarship
The wonderful* people at www.collegescholarships.org have set up an interesting scholarship that I just have to share. The Twitter 140 Scholarship is short and sweet: All you need to do, in 140 characters or less, is write a Tweet highlighting how we can use Twitter to improve the world.
Here's my application:
I did put a fair amount of thought into it, but one can only worry so much about something when you've only invested 140 characters in it. (In my case, I believe, 139.)
Now, what exactly is the motivation for completing this scholarship? Let us count the ways:
Since Twitter is still such a new medium, we hoped that by creating a scholarship around it we could help encourage further thinking about how to leverage it. That is why we're giving $1,680.00 to college students who uses Twitter.
- $1,400.00 Winner
- $140.00 First Runner Up
- $140.00 Second Runner Up
If those aren't 1,680 good reasons to spend a minute and consider writing a scholarship app here, I don't know what else could convince you. So without more discussion here about Twitter, go ahead and write something!
Requirements:
- Currently attending full-time in post-secondary education; and
- If you win, you must be willing to allow us to list your name, your picture, and your twitter username, and your winning Tweet on CollegeScholarships.org.
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*(Disclaimer: I did apply for the scholarship, but even if I hadn't, CollegeScholarships.org is run by really nice people, at least as far as I have interacted with them. I wish everyone in the Higher Ed space were as nice! I guess being popular is easier when you give away money, too.)
I'm currently a rising senior at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale.
4 Comments
October 27, 2009
My tweet (working on it): Twitter puts democracy back into the people's hands, bypassing maintstream media and allowing collaboration of the masses. [sidenote: read a previous comment about Acceptedge... is that helpful for college applications? I'm working on mine.]
October 27, 2009
Hey Emilee, thanks for reading! Sounds pretty good - make sure to submit your app, whatever it is, ASAP. Re: Acceptedge... that comment, I think, was maybe 75% spam... but regardless, I think you should stay as far away as possible from any sort of site or person who tells you to think about your college admissions process as just a series of numbers, probabilities, etc. Just focus on your applications and do your best in school. If you aren't sure how selective a school might be for you, then those tools can sometimes be helpful tools, but too often they end up sounding like the "chance me!" threads on College Confidential (another place you should never, ever go).
Most #1 important thing is to keep your wits about you and stay relaxed, as much as you can... anyhow. All that aside, I'm not sure how Acceptedge would help with _apps_ --> it only tells you what its algorithms think might be a good college for you, and what it thinks your chances are.
November 5, 2009
She's a been spamming that site all over the intarwebs.
November 10, 2009
Josh, when you write that "I'm spamming..." etc, it doesn't make me want to approve your other comments ; )
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