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Mental Floss $50,000 Tuition Giveaway

Mental Floss $50,000 Tuition Giveaway
10/20/2008
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Scholarships.com Staff

Do you have a great sense of humor?  Do you just love writing essays?  Are you "funny, quirky, and creative?" Can you talk about how great you are without coming off as pretentious?  Do you really really deserve a scholarship?  If you can answer yes to all of these questions, then this week's Scholarship of the Week, the Mental Floss $50,000 Tuition Giveaway scholarship essay contest, is for you.

Mental Floss Magazine has teamed up with Borders and Merriam-Webster to offer five $10,000 scholarships to students who will be enrolled full-time in the fall of 2009.  All you have to do to enter (after you check your scholarship search results to see if you qualify, of course) is head on over to the contest website, fill out a short entry form, compose an essay of 750 words or less that explains why you deserve this scholarship more than anyone, and hit submit.  The hardest part will be getting the tone just right, as the scholarship providers want something written in the style of their magazine (luckily, you can find some of their articles online).  It would be a good idea to brush up on your scholarship essay-writing skills before you apply for scholarships like this one.

Prize:

Five $10,000 grand prizes will be awarded.  The first runner-up will receive a free dinner with a co-founder of Mental Floss Magazine or a $250 cash prize, and four other runners-up will receive a subscription to Mental Floss, a Mental Floss t-shirt, and a Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Eligibility:

To be eligible to win, students must be attending college full-time at a two-year or four-year college or university in the U.S. or Canada in 2009.  Entrants also must be legal residents of the United States or Canada (with the exception of Puerto Rico and Quebec) and must be 18 or older before August 15, 2009.

Deadline:

January 31, 2009

Required Materials:

Completed online scholarship application and an essay of 750 words or less explaining why you should win this scholarship.

Further details about the application process can be found by conducting a free college scholarship search on Scholarships.com. Once the search is completed, students eligible for this scholarship award will find it in their search results.

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