How to WRITE a perfect motivation letter for scholarship (with examples) - Scholarship guide — Transcript

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1. 0:00motivation letter is one of the most
2. 0:01important documents to get fully funded
3. 0:03scholarship abroad it sometimes account
4. 0:06for 50% of your success let's talk about
5. 0:09how to draft an excellent motivation
6. 0:12letter to get attention of the commy and
7. 0:15study appro totally for free the things
8. 0:17that you don't have to do in
9. 0:18motivational first of all don't use chat
10. 0:21GPT don't use AI to draft your
11. 0:24motivation letter believe me nowadays
12. 0:27almost all the universities and
13. 0:29committees have the access to the
14. 0:31platforms and apps that can check
15. 0:33whether it is return by chat GPT or any
16. 0:36other AI tools what you can do you can
17. 0:39use chat GPT to get ideas to get
18. 0:42synonyms to the words to get uh
19. 0:44inspiration but not to copy paste from
20. 0:47chat GPT or any AI tool the second thing
21. 0:50don't use generalization in your
22. 0:52motivation letter last year I was a
23. 0:55Committee Member for stipendium
24. 0:57hungarikum scholarship and I had the
25. 0:59exess to motivation letters of the
26. 1:01students who we were going to interview
27. 1:04what I was surprised to see that five
28. 1:07students from the African continent was
29. 1:10writing the same things in their
30. 1:12motivation letter were planning to
31. 1:14finish the scholarship and uh uh go to
32. 1:17become a Minister of Finance in their
33. 1:19country I understand people can have
34. 1:22very uh ambitious goals but if you see
35. 1:25these terms uh for fifth time in a
36. 1:28motivation letter you will doubt whether
37. 1:30they the student even wrote this
38. 1:33motivation it's common and easy words to
39. 1:37say that you are motivated uh you want
40. 1:39to create a change in the society uh I
41. 1:42don't know you want to become a minister
42. 1:44of finance but how can you prove it how
43. 1:48can you show that you have skills and
44. 1:51you have experience and you are
45. 1:55competent enough to to to become such a
46. 1:58person that you're um mentioning right
47. 2:01instead of saying the general terms you
48. 2:03have to tell the story you have to prove
49. 2:06it I will read for you two examples
50. 2:08which I found online and you can feel
51. 2:12how the first example is different from
52. 2:15the second example when the student use
53. 2:18general terms and the second one when
54. 2:20the student uses proofs the first
55. 2:23example I believe that I'm motivated and
56. 2:25that getting the scholarship will allow
57. 2:27me to fulfill my professional and
58. 2:29personal goals as well as create an
59. 2:32impact in my Society now feel the second
60. 2:34example I plan to set up a women's
61. 2:37Community educated center after I
62. 2:39graduate to empower women with basic
63. 2:42accounting skills to run small and
64. 2:44medium-sized businesses the scholarship
65. 2:46and master program will allow me to
66. 2:49acquire skills that will help me to
67. 2:50create tools and resources for this
68. 2:52training I hope that you can see the
69. 2:55differences how a motivational can be
70. 2:57drafted the second thing is about what
71. 2:59you should do uh first of all research
72. 3:02research read explore as much as you can
73. 3:06about the specific scholarship because
74. 3:09the more information you have the better
75. 3:11you will be able to draft this
76. 3:13motivation letter because when you read
77. 3:15a lot when you see the examples when you
78. 3:18realize what they want from you you can
79. 3:21come with specific examples that I have
80. 3:24mentioned before and you can try to
81. 3:28write what they want you to right and if
82. 3:30you do your research it will help you to
83. 3:32address the specific comment member for
84. 3:36example if you explore and research
85. 3:38enough you in most cases will know that
86. 3:41who is reading who is responsible for
87. 3:44motivation letter or this scholarship in
88. 3:46general and you can address the specific
89. 3:48person in your motivation letter instead
90. 3:50of writing dear Committee Member you can
91. 3:53write dear I don't know Richard Cole or
92. 3:55something which will show how interested
93. 3:59you are in this scholarship how serious
94. 4:01you take the scholarship that even you
95. 4:03find uh the name of the Committee Member
96. 4:05who will be reading your motivation
97. 4:07letter go through your motivation letter
98. 4:10several times at least 10 times to write
99. 4:13a good motivation letter takes time you
100. 4:16have to try to read it over and over to
101. 4:20give it to your colleagues to your
102. 4:22friends to your professors to give you
103. 4:25feedback so you can further improve it
104. 4:28you can't draft a good motivation with
105. 4:29say in 2 days unfortunately it takes
106. 4:32some time and you have to be patient
107. 4:34here when you read it a lot and enough
108. 4:37you will avoid one of the worst thing
109. 4:41that can happen with your motivation
110. 4:42letter grammar and spelling mistakes and
111. 4:45it is very very crucial to be very
112. 4:47careful because in most cases you're
113. 4:49applying for master or for PhD and in
114. 4:53for example PhD you have to be very good
115. 4:55at academic writing and and now you're
116. 4:58applying for the scholarship with this
117. 5:00motivation letter which has I don't know
118. 5:0210 gramar mistakes two gramar mistakes
119. 5:05doesn't matter which will negatively
120. 5:08affect your application package in
121. 5:10general how long should motivation
122. 5:13letter be in most cases you will be said
123. 5:17by the scholarship or the uh University
124. 5:20how long should be but usually it's from
125. 5:22500 words to 800 words it's
126. 5:25approximately one page so you have to be
127. 5:28very very concrete very precise very
128. 5:31complect to give uh the general idea of
129. 5:35who you are what you want why you want
130. 5:37the scholarship and how you as a
131. 5:40candidate can contribute to the
132. 5:43development of the University itself
133. 5:45because you don't only get right you
134. 5:48have to give something instead this
135. 5:50leads us to another Point what you
136. 5:51should write in your motivation letter
137. 5:54uh motivation letter consists of three
138. 5:56parts uh introduction main part and
139. 5:59conclusion you can use the normal
140. 6:01introduction saying that you are this
141. 6:04this person and you want to apply for
142. 6:05this this scholarship but you can try to
143. 6:09story tale to be distinguished among all
144. 6:12these students I will uh read for you
145. 6:15the part of the motivation letter that I
146. 6:17used for uh getting sendum H gum
147. 6:20scholarship as an introduction and I
148. 6:23hope that this will give you the ideas
149. 6:26and inspiration what you can write in
150. 6:28your motivation letter I am mahim Zam a
151. 6:31citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan
152. 6:33with a desperate and tremendous Vision
153. 6:35to participate in poverty eradication
154. 6:37through Economic Development projects I
155. 6:40recognize that in order to accomplish
156. 6:42this Vision I must expose myself to new
157. 6:44knowledge and perspectives having
158. 6:47overcome hardship I understand full well
159. 6:49the power of determination and focus I'm
160. 6:52committed to harnessing the power of
161. 6:54further education to participate in
162. 6:56efforts to improve the economy of
163. 6:59Tajikistan
164. 7:00through citizen driven interventions you
165. 7:02can see that it's not normal
166. 7:04introduction it still gives a general
167. 7:06idea who I am right and what I'm
168. 7:09interested in because my thesis is about
169. 7:11poverty so I'm mentioning here because
170. 7:14along side my motivation letter I also
171. 7:17sent my search proposal so I am very
172. 7:20consistent here I interested in poverty
173. 7:22and here is my research proposal about
174. 7:25policy so please try to tell a story in
175. 7:28introduction just to to catch the
176. 7:30attention of Committee Member in the
177. 7:32main part mostly you have to tell why
178. 7:34you want the scholarship and why you
179. 7:36deserve the scholarship and what you can
180. 7:39give to the scholarship and to the
181. 7:41university as a student who will be the
182. 7:44part of this community talking about why
183. 7:46you want the scholarship you have to try
184. 7:49to be very precise and connect the dots
185. 7:53what does it mean you have to connect
186. 7:56your previous experience the future
187. 7:58goals of yours and the scholarships that
188. 8:01you are going to apply for example if
189. 8:04you have been studying economics or
190. 8:06international relations and you want to
191. 8:09work for an NGO in your own country or
192. 8:12any other countries you have to try to
193. 8:15tell that I have bachelor degree in
194. 8:18economics I have been working two years
195. 8:20in an NGO in my country and I realize
196. 8:23that I have a knowledge Gap in this this
197. 8:26Majors so this master program will help
198. 8:30me to get this necessary knowledge that
199. 8:32I can use to become a better employer or
200. 8:35Specialist or professional in specific
201. 8:37company also here you can explain why
202. 8:41you want this specific major right and
203. 8:44specific University again if you did
204. 8:47your homework and read enough about the
205. 8:50scholarship and their requirements then
206. 8:54you will understand what you can write
207. 8:56here for example in this channel I have
208. 8:58an interview with one of my uh friends
209. 9:00who got chiming scholarship uh to study
210. 9:03in the United Kingdom and she said that
211. 9:05in one of her essays why she wants to
212. 9:08study specifically in that uh city of
213. 9:11the United Kingdom she likes the
214. 9:14specific flower that is only seen in
215. 9:16that part of the of the country and it
216. 9:19would be great to go and explore and see
217. 9:22this so you have to do your research to
218. 9:25understand what is what specific things
219. 9:27that other people will not pay attention
220. 9:29to you found paid attention and wrote in
221. 9:33your motivation letter and you get the
222. 9:36scholarship what can you give instead
223. 9:38here how can you uh contribute to the
224. 9:41scholarship you can write uh about your
225. 9:45experience achievement skills that you
226. 9:47can bring to the to this academic
227. 9:49Community to this University and to the
228. 9:52scholarship if you are able to tell it
229. 9:55through story as I have mentioned like
230. 9:57what projects you have implemented Ed
231. 10:00what kind of people you have met what
232. 10:03languages you learned it will be more
233. 10:06interesting to read your motivation
234. 10:08letter and to know the history of your
235. 10:11life I would say the last part about
236. 10:13conclusion here you can mention your
237. 10:16future goals again it will depend on you
238. 10:19don't put super uh ambitious goals here
239. 10:23in the last part of your motivation
240. 10:25letter don't use general terms as I have
241. 10:27said before not to become president or
242. 10:31minister or something like that try to
243. 10:33be specific and think that okay what
244. 10:36will happen after you finish this
245. 10:38program right try to be more I would say
246. 10:42realistic and uh it it can be that okay
247. 10:46you can mention short-term goals and in
248. 10:48long-term goals of course you can tell
249. 10:51about your plans that you are going to
250. 10:53open your own business or your company
251. 10:55or noos or whatever but in short term
252. 10:58gos be more realistic because uh I
253. 11:00wouldn't believe to someone who who just
254. 11:04finished his Bachelor or Master to be a
255. 11:07Ministry of Finance in 5 years you know
256. 11:10what I mean right so good luck with that
257. 11:13and see you in my next videos