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A brief summary and description of each offering is provided for your information and review.

Students are urged to apply for any and all scholarships that they feel qualified to receive. Criteria for each scholarship is listed under the name of the scholarship.

Applications for each scholarship are linked below the criteria for the scholarship. Most are editable PDF’s, you can type write on the application.

Scholarships using the Scholarship Common Application- Many scholarships use the same application. Students can copy the completed application but since the application is the same, please print at the top of each for which scholarship you are applying for.

Please attach all documents the scholarship requires into ONE PDF (see slides 5-7)

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TRANSCRIPTS

Attach a transcript to ALL scholarships as part of the one PDF per scholarship

See slides 5-7 for how to make one PDF

All applications due Tuesday, March 27th 8:00am

HOW TO CREATE ONE PDF

Open your completed application, under file click create PDF

Select merge files into a single PDF

Either click add files or drag files in. Add ALL files for that scholarship, application, resume, transcript, essay

Click combine files

Combine files

File Name = Name of Scholarship

Save

MERGE PDF ON A MAC

Key Steps:

Open PDF’s in Preview: Open the PDF files you want to merge in the preview app.
Enable Thumbnails: In each PDF window, go to “View”>”Thumbnails” to display the page thumbnails in the sidebar.
Drag and Drop: Click and drag the thumbnail pages you want to add from one PDF to the thumbnail sidebar of the other PDF.
Save the merged PDF - give it the name of the scholarship.

Submitting completed applications

Combine all the required documentation (completed application, transcript, resume and essay where necessary) for a particular scholarship into one PDF- see slides 5-7

Attach all PDFs to one email unless you are submitting lots of applications and need to separate into several emails due to size.

Email scholarships to scholarships@cantonma.org. Indicate in the body of the email which applications need recommendations. The counseling staff will add the recommendation for you

SCHOLARSHIP LINK

Use this link to access all local/town scholarships