REMINDER: This blog serves the main purpose of providing scholarship applicants with the opportunity to have someone familiar with the process critique their essays. So please send me some essays! No more than 500 words to askjameelah@gmail.com. (See the first entry for complete details regarding submissions).
One thing I always hear from people, "But most scholarships have a deadline that has already passed. There's no point in looking for anything now," never ceases to make me cringe. Oh please! Just like some colleges/universities have rolling admissions, various scholarships offer "rolling" deadlines. Some scholarships even offer many deadlines so that applicants have different opportunities to apply. So don't give up! Keep searching throughout the summer and year.
