[NFBOK-Talk] TEN BEST WAYS TO AVOID WINNING AN NFB SCHOLARSHIP

[Jeannie Massay]

TEN BEST WAYS TO AVOID WINNING AN NFB SCHOLARSHIP

By Patti Gregory Chang, Chair of the NFB Scholarship Committee and Debbie
Stein, Chair of the NFB of Illinois scholarship Committee 

 

Over the years, thousands of qualified blind postsecondary students have
succeeded in not winning an NFB scholarship. If you wish to follow in their
footsteps, you are encouraged to employ any or all of these tried and true
techniques. For your convenience, we have arranged these methods in reverse
order, with the most successful listed last.

 

10. Wait until the evening of March 31 to upload your scholarship
application. By that time the site will be experiencing heavy traffic, and
you may be unable to upload all of your documents before the deadline of
midnight Eastern Time.

 

9. Omit as many of the required documents as possible, or submit them after
the deadline. 

 

8. Appoint your mother to speak to the scholarship chair on your behalf.
Encourage her to call regularly, raising all of your questions and concerns,
including those that never occurred to you. 

 

7. Address your essay to "Dear ACB Scholarship Committee," "Dear Admissions
Director," or "Dear ." any other entity other than the NFB Scholarship
Committee. 

 

6. Don't proofread your essay or application. This technique is especially
easy to follow when you compile your material on the evening of March 31.

 

5. Invite your mother, your sister, or your best friend to write your letter
of recommendation.

 

4. Insist that your mother write your essay. Send it from her email address
so the scholarship committee will be sure to give her proper credit for her
hard work. 

 

3. Make sure you are eating supper or chewing gum during your scholarship
interview. A loud TV in the background is also very effective. 

 

2. Avoid scheduling an interview with your state president for as long as
possible or fail to answer the phone when the president calls you at the
time you finally designated. 

 

1. The most reliable method to avoid winning a scholarship is not to apply
at all. So do not visit  <https://nfb.org/scholarships>
https://nfb.org/scholarships or check with your state affiliate about state
NFB scholarships. Thousands of students can testify that this method is 100
percent foolproof. You can't win a scholarship if you don't apply!

 

 

Patti S. Chang Esq.

Director of Outreach

200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230

(410) 659-9314, extension 2422 | pchang at nfb.org <mailto:pchang at nfb.org> 

 

 

 <https://nfb.org/> 

 

 
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The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends
who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every day we work
together to help blind people live the lives they want.

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