All these were from my Scholarship Superviser Mdm Wee.

When you are choosing universities, be sure that it fits most of your criteria, such as , major offered, school population, academic requirements, sports, etc.

For most of applicants, we are looking for financial aids. In this sense, we can either choose top private universities, such as Yale, Harvard or Princeton. These are the universities that are very generous in giving you money. Otherwise, you can choose liberal arts college, such as Smith. Liberal arts colleges tend to be rich and are willing to offer you financial aid.

For most USA schools, they play down the role of academic results. Instead, they look at personal characteristics such as integrity, leadership, teamwork and courage. Be sure to express your best qualities in your PS, that is worth ten times of your academic results.

For example in my school, all students holding a key leadership position will get a scholarship to support them through undergraduate studies regardless of their academic results. The reason is simple. We do not need smart people that much since they are all over the place, instead, we need people who can lead the smart people. See the point?

For letters of recommendation, it is important that they come from different groups of people. Your couch in sports team, your teacher, professionals you met during a forum, etc. Variety of sources has already showed something about your life.

Lastly but most importantly, do not cheat. It is important to remain honest under all circumstances so that you can hold your head up and high as a human being. The university will check through your materials very carefully, yes they WILL! We are all good students, good people, act like it.

 that should be all I can remember. Be sure to let me know if there are other things you are interested. I can always check with my teacher and seniors, since those things might be my concerns as well.