<p>Does anyone know if there is a printed version of the application? My daughter is applying online and when we go to print a proof copy, there is so much more space that could be used.</p>
<p>For example on one section, it says, “Please summarize your role(s) and accomplishment in one paragraph.” Online, you have 200 characters to do so. The form WILL NOT let you go over. But when you print out the application to review it, there is PLENTY of room. Oceans of empty space.</p>
<p>My daughter’s answers are kind of ridiculously terse because of the character limitations. I mean, really – 80 characters to explain who or what inspired your involvement in something that is important to you?!?</p>
<p>Anyway, if there is a paper option, I would seriously love to know about it.</p>
<p>Even if there is a paper option, there would still be a word limit. I don’t know if there is, since we did the on-line one last year too. Good luck!</p>
<p>This is unreal to me. Why are parents having anything to do with filling out a Morehead Cain Application?!?! It is a student scholarship and students should be the ones applying for it. And figuring out the word count and answering the questions and dealing with every other aspect of their own college path.</p>
<p>@seniornow – why don’t you try not to be so quick to judge? I am most certainly not filling out the application, figuring out the word count or answering any questions whatsoever.</p>
<p>I asked a simple question about whether or not there was a paper version of the application. Responses like yours are why people are afraid to come out from lurking status and ask anything.</p>
<p>And for the record, you are dead wrong about the student being solely responsible for “dealing with every other aspect of their own college path.” As a parent, I have a responsibility to guide, advise and assist my child in this process. The work will be all her own, but I absolutely have a say in the matter. I suspect a thousand parents on these boards would back me up.</p>
<p>There is not one thing wrong with receiving help with applications (or a lot of other things in the growing up process!). If a student doesn’t have a parent to help at home, most schools have counselors or teachers who can assist. A student should not submit applications (or research papers, or lots of other things) without having a buddy or someone else at least proofread for grammatical and spelling errors that are so easy to slip past! No one said the parent was doing the application for the student.</p>
<p>Most of our students who are of the Morehead-Cain caliber are so busy (yes, that’s why they have reached that caliber) that they need someone to help out with a little of the leg-work. </p>
<p>If you are a student who doesn’t have someone at home to help, please ask a counselor or teacher to help you. They want you to succeed and would be happy to assist you.</p>
<p>The character limit is one of the weirdest things about that application, but you have to adhere to it. If you printed it out and wrote a lot more, the application would likely be thrown out. I know several people who really struggled with the character limit, but you have to make it work.</p>
<p>I am a student not a parent. I have lots of friends here who also completed their own applications without so much parental involvement. Yes, we did the time consuming legwork too! And, we are in class with some students who clearly had the kind of help you are giving your daughter. And, it is evident to the students and the professors what the case is for all the students regardless of whether they are “cousins” or not.</p>
<p>Going out on a limb here, but I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the students who end up winning the Morehead-Cain Scholarship are students who have had their parents/teachers/counselors help them put together the best application possible. This goes for any situation in which you’re writing essays or applying for something “big”- you absolutely need someone with a critical eye to proofread things for you and double check deadlines, etc. If you don’t have supportive/helpful/involved parents at home, then you should definitely meet with a counselor or teacher. Having your mom/dad/whoever ask a question or two on CC is hardly being overly involved!</p>
<p>You should also realize that once you are a Morehead-Cain Scholar, the staff of the Morehead-Cain Foundation is devoted to helping you navigate through your four years at UNC - they’e always going to be there to help you out when you get bogged down with homework/studying/planning your summers, etc. You’re never going to have to fend entirely for yourself. Take advantage of the help you can get!</p>
<p>In truth, we never saw our S’s Morehead application until it had been submitted. He took his completed application to his college counselors for them to review and he had an English teacher and both college counselors read his essays prior to submission but in both cases it was merely to proof read to make sure they said what he intended them to say. In both cases no edits or changes were made. Several short answers and one essay gave me palpitations when I first read them (because they were unconventional answers/essay) but in reality they truly represented who he really was and is and as such they made him stand out.</p>
<p>The word limit is part of the challenge to be clear concise and consistent, while at the same time being a bit creative. By creative I don’t mean making things up but rather finding a way to make your 200 words stand out from the pack. The essays really need to be the voice of the candidate…a window into what makes them tick. Believe me when I tell you that the interviewers will know that application inside out and backwards if she is lucky enough to make it to semi-finalist/finalist status so it really needs to be about who she is and what makes her who she is.</p>
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<p>Not quite true. The Foundation staff is there to advise and support but a very big part of being a Morehead is your own ability to think for yourself and (from the old literature) “chart your own path, create your own destiny.”</p>
<p>The M-C staff will do their best to keep you from putting yourself in danger when traveling abroad but only the student can decide whether or not to adhere to warnings and recommendations when in some far off, third world country. They will be there to offer support and encouragement in a sort of de facto parental role, but they are not going to tell you what or how to do something. In fact, quite the opposite; independence is a highly desirable trait for Morehead candidates.</p>