How to write good essays for the Mastercard Foundation Scholarship
Summary
TLDRThis webinar transcript offers guidance on crafting compelling postgraduate scholarship essays, emphasizing recent achievements linked to climate change and sustainability. It advises applicants to demonstrate leadership, quantify their impact, and reflect on their experiences. The discussion also addresses demonstrating financial need without seeming desperate and the importance of connecting past experiences to future goals in the essay.
Takeaways
- 📘 Postgraduate applicants should focus on recent experiences and achievements rather than high school or early life events.
- 🌿 Scholarships are centered on climate change and sustainability, and applicants should show how their skills can be applied to these themes.
- 🔗 It's important to demonstrate a link between one's experiences and the issues of climate change or sustainability, even if the work was in a different field.
- 💡 Leadership should be interpreted broadly, encompassing any situation where one has influenced others or brought about change, not just formal positions.
- 🏆 Postgraduate level applicants are expected to show concrete achievements rather than just interests or aspirations.
- 🔎 Strong applications should provide a broader context for achievements, rather than focusing on small-scale examples.
- 📊 Quantifying achievements with numbers can help convey the scale and impact of one's work.
- 🌟 Reflective capacity is crucial; applicants should be able to articulate what they learned from their experiences and how their understanding evolved.
- 📝 The essay should tell a cohesive story, connecting past experiences, current activities, and future plans in a logical and compelling manner.
- 🚫 Common pitfalls include essays with many mistakes, lack of specificity about why a particular degree program is chosen, and an overemphasis on the desire to study abroad rather than the program itself.
Q & A
What is the general expectation for applicants applying for postgraduate study in terms of their experiences discussed in their applications?
-Applicants should focus on experiences later in life, preferably during or after their undergraduate studies, rather than high school or earlier. The experiences should ideally be linked to the themes of climate change and sustainability, even if not directly related.
How important is it for an applicant's work or study to be directly related to climate change and sustainability when applying for these scholarships?
-While having a direct connection to climate change and sustainability is helpful, it's not essential. What's important is demonstrating how an applicant's skills and experiences can be applied to these issues.
Can leadership be demonstrated in contexts outside of formal positions like being the president of an organization?
-Yes, leadership can be interpreted broadly and demonstrated in various contexts, including instances where an applicant has influenced others and brought about change without necessarily holding a formal position.
What does the term 'demonstrated achievement' mean in the context of postgraduate scholarship applications?
-It refers to tangible actions and accomplishments that applicants have achieved, rather than just interests or aspirations. It's about showing what they have actually done, particularly in relation to the themes of the scholarship.
Why is it beneficial to put one's work in a broader context when writing an application essay?
-Putting work in a broader context helps to convey the scale and impact of an applicant's achievements, making the essay more compelling and giving a clearer picture of the applicant's capabilities.
How can applicants effectively quantify their achievements in their essays?
-Applicants can quantify their achievements by using numbers, such as the number of people influenced, attendees at an event, or the scale of a project in terms of time or budget.
What is the significance of reflecting on one's experiences in the application essay?
-Reflection shows the applicant's ability to learn from their experiences, understand the impact of their work, and how their perspectives or approaches may have evolved as a result.
Can you explain the STAR method mentioned in the script for structuring an application essay?
-The STAR method stands for Situation, Task, Action, and Result. It's a structured way to describe a specific scenario, the challenges faced, the actions taken, and the outcomes achieved.
How should applicants address their financial needs in the scholarship application without appearing to beg?
-Applicants should focus on describing the challenges they faced in accessing education and how they overcame these barriers, demonstrating their resilience and the necessity of the scholarship for their studies.
What is the importance of linking past experiences, current activities, and future plans in an application essay?
-Linking these elements provides a coherent narrative that showcases the applicant's journey, growth, and how the scholarship fits into their broader goals and aspirations.
How can applicants avoid common pitfalls in their essays, such as lack of clarity or appearing desperate for the scholarship?
-Applicants should ensure their essays are well-prepared, free of errors, clearly explain their interest in the specific degree program, and convey a sense of having other opportunities, thus maintaining a balance between ambition and realism.
Outlines
📚 Focusing on Relevant Achievements for Postgraduate Scholarships
The speaker emphasizes the importance of showcasing recent achievements related to undergraduate studies or post-graduation experiences when applying for postgraduate scholarships. While early life experiences can be interesting, the focus should be on demonstrating how one's skills and experiences can be linked to the scholarship's themes of climate change and sustainability. The speaker also encourages applicants to think broadly about leadership and to provide examples that reflect their ability to influence and bring about change, rather than just holding a formal position.
💡 Enhancing Essays with Quantifiable Achievements and Reflective Insights
This paragraph discusses the value of quantifying one's achievements to provide context and scale to the work done. It suggests avoiding focusing on small-scale projects and instead highlighting broader impacts. The speaker also stresses the importance of reflecting on what was learned from past experiences, including successes and challenges, to demonstrate a candidate's reflective capacity and growth mindset.
🔍 Crafting Essays with Context and Clarity
The speaker provides guidance on writing effective essays, suggesting the use of a clear structure to outline the context, problem, actions taken, and the resulting changes. They also highlight the importance of setting the context for readers who may not be familiar with the applicant's background or field of work, and the opportunity this presents to demonstrate intercultural communication skills.
🌐 Linking Diverse Experiences to Climate Change and Sustainability
The speaker addresses how applicants from various backgrounds can demonstrate their interest and potential contribution to climate change and sustainability, even if their previous work was in different areas. They encourage applicants to make a case for how their transferable skills and experiences can be applied to these themes, emphasizing the need to show a clear connection and understanding of the relevance of their past work to the scholarship's focus.
📈 Demonstrating Financial Need with Dignity
In this paragraph, the speaker advises on how to demonstrate financial need without appearing to beg or seem overly needy. They suggest focusing on the challenges and barriers faced in accessing education, and how these were overcome, as a way to convey financial constraints while maintaining dignity. The speaker acknowledges the sensitivity of the topic and the importance of respecting the applicant's personal circumstances.
📝 Conveying a Compelling Narrative for the Scholarship Application
The speaker wraps up the discussion by emphasizing the importance of telling a compelling story in the application essays. They advise applicants to consider their past experiences, current activities, and future plans, ensuring that these elements are interconnected and coherent. The speaker also warns against common pitfalls, such as poor preparation, unrealistic ambitions, and a lack of specificity in the choice of degree program, and encourages applicants to show that they have researched and are a good fit for the program.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Postgraduate study
💡Climate change
💡Sustainability
💡Leadership
💡Quantify
💡Reflective capacity
💡Scholarships
💡Intercultural communication
💡Demonstrated achievement
💡Financial need
Highlights
Applicants for postgraduate study should focus on recent achievements rather than high school experiences.
Scholarships are themed around climate change and sustainability, but direct experience in these areas is not mandatory.
Applicants should demonstrate how their skills and experiences can be linked to issues of climate change and sustainability.
Leadership should be interpreted broadly, not just in terms of formal positions held.
Postgraduate level applicants are expected to show demonstrated achievements, not just interests or aspirations.
Applicants should provide context for their work to help evaluators unfamiliar with their field or country.
Quantifying achievements with numbers can help convey the scale and impact of an applicant's work.
Leadership examples should reflect not just the ability to deliver and organize, but also personal values and passions.
Reflective capacity is crucial; applicants should be able to discuss what they learned from their experiences.
Applicants should use a structured format to clearly communicate their situation, task, action, and result (STAR).
Essays should avoid common pitfalls such as lack of preparation, typos, and not explaining the relevance of the chosen degree program.
Essays should demonstrate a realistic progression from past achievements to future plans.
Applicants should show they have done research into the specific degree program and how it will aid their career.
Strong applicants should convey they have opportunities elsewhere due to impressive CVs and accomplishments.
Essays should balance ambition with realism, avoiding extremes of under or over-estimating future goals.
Demonstrating financial need should be done in a dignified way, focusing on overcoming challenges rather than begging.
Applicants should connect their past experiences, current work, and future plans in a coherent narrative.
Essays should be concise, using the 250-word limit effectively to tell a compelling story.
Transcripts
something that's fairly recent uh we
sometimes read um examples where uh
applicants who are going for
postgraduate study but they're talking
about things that they did in high
school or things where they or even
earlier in life than that and although
they can be interesting I think it's
we're generally looking for things a bit
later in life that you've done either
during the course of your undergraduate
study or since
graduating uh as B mentioned our
scholarships are themed around climate
change and sustainability so although
it's not essential that you've worked or
have studied in an area that's closely
related to climate change and
sustainability though certainly that's
helpful um it is important that you show
how you might link your particular
skills and experiences to these issues
so perhaps you've worked primarily with
issues relating to Refugee issues or in
women's health you might want to reflect
on how the particular skills that you've
used in that area might allow you to
help out um and address sustainability
or climate change in some ways and and
lastly I think sometimes people
interpret leadership to only refer to a
formal position that you've held like
president of a of an organization or the
chair of something but I think you can
think about leadership in a much wider
range of context to that anywhere where
you've had an opportunity to show off
your skills and to influence other
people and to uh to bring about change
so I encourage you to incorporate
leadership uh interpret leadership
broadly so let's think about these
examples and and what El might make a
good one and what you should be looking
for um I think at postgraduate level we
are as it's the first thing to say is we
are looking primarily for people who
have demonstrated achievement not just
this is something I'm interested in this
is something I'm aspiring to do I've
read interesting things about
sustainable energy I've read interesting
things about this but we are looking to
see things that you've actually done I
think also um you know we appreciate
that that comes in context we have some
applicants who are uh you know quite
young perhaps in their early 20s having
just graduated and we have some older
applicants and we understand that not
everyone has had the same opportunity to
contribute but we are looking
for um things that you that you've
actually done I think that um some
weaker answers can often focus on and
and give quite a good account of
something but it's actually quite a
small example it might be I organized a
workshop or I I organized an event of
some kind where it's interesting and
it's and it's good but it's perhaps
quite small in scale I think it can be
better to try and put your work in a
slightly broader context so for instance
have you organized a range of workshops
and and and try and tell the bigger
story of that rather than just oh there
was a dispute between colleagues and I
use my leadership skills to resolve that
I think try to think a little bit bigger
than that I think something that goes
along really closely with that and one
that you'll see when I share some
examples later on is that it's
incredibly helpful for you to be able to
quantify what you have done in some way
and quantify by simply mean use numbers
how many people did you influence how
many people came to your event how many
people were you managing how long did it
go on for and sometimes we have um uh
description of a project that sounds
interesting but there's no way to tell
whether this was a project that went for
two weeks or for two years or whether it
was a very small scale project or
whether it was you hundreds of thousands
of dollars so I think something that
gives you some example of the scale of
that is really
important um I think
also it's the leadership examples want
to show ideally a bit more than just
simply Your Capacity to deliver and
organize something because leadership is
a little bit more than just management
it's
also about reflecting your values your
passions the things that interest you
the things that drive you so ideally the
example is not just I delivered on it on
an impressive project but also the
project represents something that I
think is important and change that I
think I want to bring help bring about
in the world so I think that's an
important aspect of that and lastly I
would say this reflective capacity is
very important an ability to not just
describe what you've done uh and uh and
and the skills that you use to do it but
to say what you took away from that
we're not expecting every example to be
some kind of perfect version of of uh of
oh everything went perfectly well it may
be that it was a project that had lots
of ups and downs in it complicated
projects often do come within parts that
go well and parts that go not so well
and you may go in with an understanding
of what the problem is but perhaps your
understanding of the issue you were
working on was changed by your work I
think being able to show off that kind
of those kind of skills are are really
useful and the bit you can't see by my
head there it says um oh let me see what
that says it says yeah do you have uh do
you have skills that you would like to
grow and develop further so yeah are
there things that yeah I felt like I was
able to show off these leadership skills
but there's more I have to learn as
well so how do you do this thing is this
if this is what's on your shopping list
of different things you want to show off
your reflective ability um some of the
skills that you have but then also your
passions and your values how can you try
to do this well if you prepared
professionally for a job interview or a
similar opportunity like this you're
probably aware of some of the kind of
formats that are quite useful to to use
um so what one format I would say is
work through set out the context of what
you're trying to do uh explain the
problem of what the issue was that you
faced explain what you did and and then
explain what change happened and then
have that reflective component uh you
perhaps heard a very similar idea to
this um used with a different acronym uh
star for
situation um task oh wait have I got
that right situation and context I think
the uh the task and then the action and
then the result I think I've got that
the right way around but this thing
where you're taking us through in what
is in it 250 words so you do have to be
concise what happened what the situation
was and how you attacked that situation
and I think this is where it's really
useful to particularly think about the
context because your essays are likely
to be read by someone who is not
necessarily familiar with uh the country
that you work in the country that you
come from they may not immediately be
able to bring to mind what it is to work
in a Marketplace or to work in a
business there so I think it's really
helpful for uh for you to be able to set
that out and that is an opportunity to
showcase your skills for Intercultural
communication as well so um let me look
at a couple of different essay examples
and talk you through those um and I'll
I'll give you one example that I think
is promising but that is underdeveloped
and then I think a much stronger and
better example there and before I do
that just bear with me one minut
okay let's look at that first
example so I'm just going to read it
it's not going to be the most exciting
thing but I think it's important for you
to get a sense of what we're talking
about here okay so it's answering a
question and these two examples are both
going to be answering that same question
uh and it's similar to one of the essays
that you'll have to answer tell us about
a scenario in which you've needed to
show leadership how you approach this
and what the outcomes were so it's this
thing what we're talking about let's
have a let's give us a single example
and I think that's quite important in
that it is asking for a specific
scenario it's not asking for your
general thoughts on leadership or what
makes a good leader it's asking a
specific question give us an example
here so uh it's really important to take
that away from the question okay let's
go leadership being defined by how you
lead it is inevitable your team will
look up to you and remember how you led
them as the women's commissioner for the
department of social sciences 201617
Academic Year it was my core
responsibility to see to it that the
welfare of the students especially
females were addressed I realized that
the students lacked basic knowledge on
campus life upon gaining admission to
the university and lack entrepreneurial
skills hence during the Department's
annual week celebration I invited a
female dignitary as our resource person
person for the program in the person of
Dr Martina Smithson she delivered a talk
on the topic and as a result result the
students were able to understand the
various mechanisms through which
academic and social stress could be
reduced for a better stay on campus a
workshop uh was also organized for the
students which gave them some
prerequisite skills uh to help them have
entrepreneurial opportunities aside from
school
work so when I look at this essay
there's definitely some things I like
about this it's showing an interest in
the Affairs of others it's showing the
ability to organize things and deliver
something um and uh I think it's you
know the ability to size up a situation
and realize something was lacking and
deliver that so I think there's quite a
lot to like here um I think where it
might have some limitations well for one
thing there's a typo in there which is a
little bit annoying a workshop was also
organized should be organized so that's
that's a little bit frustrating that it
wasn't more carefully prepared comped
there but I think more seriously it's
quite difficult for me to judge the sort
of the scale of this work it's talking
about identifying an issue and then they
organize a workshop now for the
individual writing this it might be
obvious to them that this was a really
huge event but I don't know whether 10
people came to the seminar or a thousand
people came to it and I don't know if
there was just a seminar or whether
there was other events going on as well
and because of that it's hard for me to
give this the highest marks on this
because I just don't exactly know enough
about the situation and I would love
also to see the candidate reflect a
little bit more on what they've taken
away from this situation if they were
facing a similar situation in future is
there an even better way they could have
addressed it so I think this essay is
okay it's certainly not disqualifying
but I think it has its limitations here
okay let me show you one that I think is
better
um same
question uh but they've answered it in a
different way it's a little bit it's a
little bit longer too it's it uses the
full 250 words I had an opportunity to
demonstrate leadership skills during my
internship experience as a startup
fashion company relating to their
manufacturing processes I was promoted
to be the assistant manufacturing lead
in three months where I took more
leadership responsibilities by Leading a
team of six so already here I'm starting
to get a sense of scale um in that there
I know how many people they're managing
and and and I have a sense of what's
going on here okay let's continue we
were experiencing challenges within the
team because the department lacked clear
processes for tracking the use of
materials such as dyes and other
chemicals and because some members of
the team had not been properly trained
in the use of equipment this led to both
additional costs using chemicals
excessively for instance through fail
production runs but also environmental
problems where materials were not
disposed of properly
see I find this context quite helpful I
don't know anything about fashion or
clothing production or anything like
that but they've explained the situation
in a way that I can make sense of let's
continue I worked with each member of
the manufacturing team to identify and
provide for their training needs and
organized a series of five halfday
workshops on using our equipment more
efficiently five halfday workshops and
starting to get a sense of the scale of
the work that they did importantly I
also asked the team to design targets
producing waste I felt that the goals
agreed by the team rather than imposed
on them by a manager would be more
inspiring and clearly understood I also
participated in the recruitment process
hiring and overseeing the induction of
three new colleagues so I get the sense
here also that this colleagues growing
in
responsibility and the way that they
describe agreeing these targets together
that's starting to give me a sense of
their not just their capabilities but
also their values as well and what they
think what they see as leadership uh
let's finish finish this example off
over 6 months we were able to reduce our
use of toxic d by 45% with a similar
reduction in costs even as overall
production increased since then I I've
worked in a consultancy role with two
other companies seeking to make similar
changes this work has inspired me to use
efficient business practices to make
environmentally friendly changes and
reminded me that collaboration and
empowerment can be more powerful than
top down management again I really like
the way that I have a sense of scale I
have a sense of what the change was but
I also have a sense of the values and
the passions of the person who's who's
WR written this essay so I think this is
a much stronger
essay um okay let's uh let's let's wrap
up here and make a couple of other
observations on on what I think makes a
strong essay
uh um some of your essays are they're
written in three different tenses some
of them are asking you to write about
things that you've done in the in in the
past reflecting on past examples what
you've learned from those some of them
are will ask you to talk about things
that happening now that you're working
on now but it's also very important to
show what your future plans are because
ultimately the purpose of these
scholarships is to help individuals
bring about positive change in the world
so I think that future plan is really
important and I think for me the um you
should be able to talk about what you're
doing now what you've done in the past
and what you plan to do in the future
and it should all hang
together um at least in the way that you
tell the story there should be a thread
that links these things whether it's
skills that you've learned along the way
or whether it's a particular interest
that's been consistent throughout so I
think it's useful now while you still
have um a little bit more than well a
month or so to submit these these essays
and to prepare these essays to think
about how do I want to tell my story in
terms of what's happened in the past
what am I doing now and what will I do
in the future uh so think about that
connection and I think also you want to
be striking a balance between having an
ambition that is impressive and to bring
about change I think if you don't just
want to be saying well I hope to
graduate and I want to go back home and
do the same thing that I'm doing now um
but also you don't want to say I expect
to become the president of of Nigeria
within the next 18 months after
graduating I think you you want to be
able to show what is a realistic
progression there I think just finally
and I hope this is not finishing on a
sort of negative note but it's worth
noting there are a couple of common
pitfalls and things that are unhelpful
uh I think sometimes we do get a lot of
essays that are just not prepared as
carefully as they might be and I think
it's really hard to give a score a good
Mark to an essay that has lots of
mistakes in it I think if you do have
the opportunity to write it on a laptop
where you can look through it carefully
rather than doing it not on your phone I
would encourage you to do that um I
think also this this also is a big part
of the future question we get a lot of
essays where people say I really want to
study abroad I've always wanted to study
abroad and it would be really exciting
for me it would take me to the next
level in my career but they don't really
explain why they want to study a
specific degree program and it's you get
the sense sometimes that they'd be happy
doing almost anything so long as they
got a chance to study abroad and I think
the better applications show that
they've done research into a particular
degree program and they're able to
demonstrate yeah this is this is how
this is how this degree program will be
able to help me I think lastly we
realized that scholarships can be very
important for uh for our applicants and
there is a lot of pressure to get them
but I think our strongest
applicants um have opportunities
elsewhere that because they have very
impressive CVS they have very impressive
accomplishments so I think sometimes
when applicants communicate a sense of
like if I didn't get get this uh there
would be nothing for me it would be a
disaster I think I understand um and I I
want to be compassionate to where that
is coming from but I think it is not
helpful for us in that um we are are
looking for applicants who are very well
qualified and are likely to have
different kind of of possibilities
elsewhere so those are the main things
that I wanted to share with you about
things that I uh that I think make a
really strong application essay as I say
I haven't gone through all of the
questions individually that's for you to
do and to work out how you want to use
those questions to tell your story but I
hope it's given you a sense of the
different things that would make a a
really strong essay and and hopefully
it's given you some ideas about how you
want to write those questions I want to
hand back over to faithy now as we have
a little bit of time to both wrap up and
answer some of your questions I
think thank you very much pit uh we do
have have a couple of questions in the
Q&A um
area which we are just going to respond
to and then I'll wrap up the webinar so
I'll summarize the questions real bit
because I think they're very tgex to
what your presentation so you spoke
about a timeline as writing experiences
within a timeline that is fairly
reasoned what actually accounts for
Fairly reason is it up to 5 years and
then um the other question is about um
it seems the focus of the Scholars
Program uh in Edinburgh is big on
climate and sustainability this year
which anyone who has other experience
for example you know enabling inclusive
communities through women empowerment
will they have uh a chance to you know
um showcase their work in as much as our
focus is on climate and
sustainability
great they're both really good questions
and maybe I could answer the second one
first and then come to the first one so
yeah so question to that question that
was like maybe I'm interested in working
in climate change and sustainability but
so far I've been working in a different
area and the example you cited with
women's empowerment and and something
something like that have I understood
that correct question
correctly yeah so I guess what I would
say there
is um it's great and we don't expect of
our applicants to have been climate
activists or to have been working in
sustainable energy or working in
Environmental Protection or conservation
for their whole lives people come from
lots of different backgrounds and our
current Scholars do but what I would
like you to do is to show us what the
link is shows the connection um shows
why You' become interested in it but
then also show how the skills that
you've worked which could be in a very
different area working on a different
topic might help you for instance you
might say one of the key things that I
I've had to do in my current role
working for an NGO on women's rights is
the ability to build coalitions and to
work with different groups of actors
even though those they may have
different priorities in and I think
being able to make a case of that's also
very important for working on climate
change and conservation and I think
that's one of the key skills I could
bring or maybe your key skills are in
Communications and presentation or maybe
they're about rights based approaches
and which are also very important in
climate change so being able to show
that
connection um I think the other question
was something like how long ago is too
long
ago uh I guess for that what I would say
is
um
uh I think that we understand that
people have taken many different paths
including we have many applicants who
have uh have have quite complicated
biographies perhaps of are displaced or
refugees work worked in different
countries or have had other complicated
events so we don't have a single
template of we want to see what you've
done in the last 12 months or we want to
see what you've done in the last 3 years
I think we want to hear your your
overall story I think what I would say
is the nature of the students that or
the applicants that we're looking at
people from in their basically from
their mid 20s to mid 30s
is uh we're asking you to reflect
essentially on your working life and the
things that you've done either while you
were studying or since you were studying
and I think if you're only citing
examples from seven or eight years ago
without giving some kind of of sense of
what you've done much more recently that
might make me think what have you been
doing in The Last 5 Years so I think
some kind of sense of of what you've
been doing through your life and but I I
I think still you can choose some
compelling examples that aren't very
recent but I think perhaps it's it's
helpful to know what you've been doing
more recently too I feel like I've not
I've answered that question in a bit of
a vague way but I think it depends on
your own story I don't know if you had
anything to add there faiy
uh Pete you have answered the question
uh comprehensively and I hope the other
attendees uh feel the same so there's
one last question um which has come up
in other webinars and I think it will be
important for pach to address as well
it's around um you know the Scholars
Program one of thep criteria is
applicants must demonstrate financial
needs I know you've touched on this
but what is the best way to demonstrate
that you are actually in need without
appearing as if you're begging or how do
you avoid the pitfall of begging and
coming out as needy in this
essay thanks it's a really interesting
question um I guess perhaps before I
answer it directly I just wanted to
acknowledge that that this is a very
sensitive question and that we're
strangers to you you haven't had the
chance to meet us and get to know us but
we're asking some very personal
questions for you and and we want to try
to do that in a way that is respectful
um we the foundation asks us to recruit
students who wouldn't have an
opportunity to study otherwise who
wouldn't have the financial means to to
to study overseas uh simply by asking
their parents to pay for it um so I I
think trying to do that in a way that is
that feels dignified and respectful for
you I think it is a bit of a challenge I
think one way of doing that can be to
talk about barriers that you faced for
instance or barriers or difficulties
that you faced in accessing education so
far uh and that I think does not have to
be told in a way where you're you feel
like you're obliged to write a very
emotional sub story of things that are
of difficult problems that you've had in
your life in a way that feels
exploitative but it can be saying that I
had to work parttime throughout my
undergraduate studies and you know that
was often very tiring and and you know I
I had to you know I had to I had to work
as in a restaurant to be able to afford
textbooks or I had to do some other kind
of work that was that was really
difficult and that and that was
something that was that was quite hard
for me and I think something like that
can both give some context to your
academic achievements but also reassure
is that uh you're you're somewhat
appropriate for our scholarship in terms
of you don't have the private means to
be able to pay for it so think focusing
on how you've been able to overcome
challenges so far can be I think a
dignified way of doing that again I
don't know if you have anything to
add yeah uh thank you uh thank you for
that um well if I may add to that is
um sometimes you know when you're when
you're writing your there is a question
about demonstrating Financial need you
want to show how you don't want to
really explain what the challenge you
went through but mostly Dell your essay
on showing how you overcome that
particular challenge that just has P
explained and so if you Dell on this I
really um know that it will set you uh
that particular aay part um for you so
those are the only questions that we had
in relation to essay um essay writing
and um I just look through the Q section
real quick and realize others related to
the application process itself
um I'm going to respond uh real quick
but at the same time this webinar has
been recorded and is going to be shared
by all those who um registered to attend
it uh we do also advise all um who are
interested in applying for the
scholarship to always you know check our
socials uh and our website because we do
have uh comprehensive information on how
to apply for for the scholarship the E
the FAQ section has uh a whole lot of
other questions that uh you might uh
find responses to as well and should you
find that uh you have a question that is
not responded to on the website or um
anywhere else you always open to uh
email us at uh mcfp
at.
UK thank you Pete very much and uh thank
you all for attending uh the webinar
today we hope that you find you found it
very useful um in um you know Finding
tips and strategies to submit a
compelling application
essay I do hope that these elements are
going to set you apart and uh your
applications essays are going to capture
the attention of the admission
committees and anybody else who will be
involved in review doing your
vacations thank you so much and uh have
a good
evening bye thank you everyone I
appreciate your
time
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