The University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Nursing offers both undergraduate and graduate scholarships. Carol Rosga works in the Office of the Assistant Dean for Student Services there and stresses that students also need to read the instructions carefully. For our scholarships you have to have at least a 3.0 grade point average. Once in a while we get some applicants who don't read that part. These are just discarded, because they are not eligible.
Applicants have to read that first page of the application.
Susan Wong, staff specialist at the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association, recommends that applicants be neat and thorough. They leave something out. Sloppy applications are a surprisingly widespread problem. Richardson says that students need to type or complete their applications on a computer. The point is to fill out your application so that people can read it.