We're bringing back last year's popular College Visit Report Scholarship! The timing is perfect - it gives you something to do while waiting for your last acceptance letters, and you may have some exciting new
college visits in the next few weeks either during Spring Break or on Accepted Student weekends.
Want to add $1,000 to your college fund? (Or, if you are a parent, to your student's college fund?) It may not pay your tuition at Harvard, but it ought to cover books for a semester or two, or maybe your trip home at Christmas break! And, as a bonus, you can help your fellow CC members by sharing your own college trip experiences.
We know our CC members have already made thousands of college visits and will be making thousands more in the coming months. To encourage our members to share their experiences with others, we're going to offer a $1,000 scholarship and CC gear to members who submit qualifying visit reports. Here's how it works:
From all visit reports submitted between March 1, 2008 and May 30, 2008, we will randomly select 25 "semifinalists" and review the reports individually. All reports that, as determined by our panel of judges, include sufficient detail and narrative to be helpful, will qualify as "finalists". (Our panelists won't be unreasonable, but they will reject reports that are lacking in specific information or are of questionable authenticity. These editorial decisions are final.)
From this group, one report will be randomly selected, and the CC member who submitted that report will receive the scholarship. The other finalists will receive
CC gear (hats, t-shirts, etc.)
This scholarship is available to all registered CC members who will be enrolled in a four-year undergraduate school by the fall of 2008. CC members who are parents of students meeting those criteria may also submit visit reports on behalf of their student. We will contact winners by private message and/or by the account email. In the event that we don't receive a reply in seven days, or if the member is found to not meet the stated eligibility requirements, that member will forfeit the prize and we'll select another report randomly from our finalist group for the scholarship. Be sure your account email is up to date and that collegeconfidential.com is a "safe" sender!
Every college trip is unique, and often a short visit doesn't provide a complete or accurate picture of what a college is really like. If we can share the experiences of many members, though, we'll help fill in the blanks and enable our members to more fully experience each college. (Even if you aren't in the running for the scholarship, feel free to share your visit experiences with others... every little bit helps!)
Want to read about some college visits, or post your own?
- Go to
College Visits
- You need to be a CC member to participate, register for free:
Join CC
Trying to learn more about a school? Be sure to check each college's home page in CC's college visits area, like
Columbia University. You can look at summary ratings, click through to any individual report, and even drill down to look at detailed comments on topics like
Yale dorms.
Just to be clear, it will be visit reports that are chosen, not individual members. Hence, if you submit reports for multiple colleges, your chance of selection as a semifinalists is higher. Duplicate reports, reports that are submitted by phony users or by the same user under multiple user IDs, reports of questionable authenticity, etc. will be removed from consideration.
Thanks for sharing, and good luck!
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