Special Requirements:
- Some scholarships require you to provide extra documentation, such as an additional, scholarship-specific essay, names of references, military discharge record, or other extra document.
- Some donors desire that special consideration be given for students who have experience living or working in diverse environments, and require that you submit a diversity essay.
- Review the scholarship eligibility criteria online in the scholarship catalog or the descriptor within the Online Application (App), to determine what type of extra documentation must be submitted with your App.
Other Required Essays for Specific Scholarship Programs:
- Each scholarship-specific essay has its own length requirement that may differ from other essays. Be sure to comply with the length of the essay.
- You can either type in the text directly, or cut and paste the text from a word processing program such as Microsoft Word.
- Use plain text only (no formatting, such as different size fonts, boldface, italics, or underlining).
- Only line-space (use a single ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’) between paragraphs.
- If you type an essay/document directly, without copying from a word processing program, be sure to save often. If your computer sits idle too long, Scholarship App will “time out” and you may lose any unsaved information.
- If you compose the essay/document in a word processing program, check the word count in your word processing program. For Microsoft Word, you can check the word and character count by going to Tools on your menu bar and selecting Word Count.
- When satisfied, you can then cut/paste or copy the essay/document into your Scholarship App. Word count available in the App will display how many available characters remain, whether you’re typing into the template, or you copy/paste.
- Scholarship specific essays and extra documents (including transcripts) do not save from year to year in the OSAC Online App.