Part 3: Creative Component Tell us your story! Tell it in a compelling, creative way. See the Creative Component Idea Starters sheet for inspiration. Choose one theme to build on or use the quotes as foundations for new ideas. Your submission may be an essay, a video, a portfolio, or other similar means to share your tale. If it’s an essay, you’ll probably need more than ten words-but fewer than a Harry Potter novel. goes for other modes of communication. (Oftentimes, it takes more skill and insight to communicate an Part 4: On- Campus Participation Part of creativity is expression — and we want to hear from you! After completing this application and submitting your creative component, we want you to share, express, and expand your ideas by attending the Scholarship Day Invitational on Saturday, Each applicant will meet with members of the Mount Mercy community (i.e., students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni) to discuss their submitted work and compete for additional monies. We want to encourage, recognize, and reward your innovative ideas and achievements. To participate in the Scholarship Day Invitational, please follow the instructions below. Submit required materials to the Admissions Office before February 1, 2012. Scholarship Day Invitational Application Part 2: Activity Chart You are more than a student. Tell us about your involvement outside of the classroom. Complete the Scholarship Day Activity Chart Part 1: General Information First Name: Last Name: Middle Initial: Phone: Email: By signing below, I acknowledge that the information above is correct and all submitted material was completed by no one other than myself. Signature: Date: We understand, of course, that life is busy. If you have a calendar conflict, or if travel to campus poses a significant barrier, please visit with your Admissions Counselor about alternatives. You can also visit campus on February 9th or 10th, or we can arrange a phone or skype conversation with you. The same powerfully, yet concisely.) idea demonstrate your participation in activities throughout your high school career. (or type your own using the same column headings) to February 11, 2012. have applied and been accepted to Mount Mercy University to be part of the Scholarship Day Invitational. You need to
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Part 3: Creative Component
Tell us your story! Tell it in a compelling, creative way. See the Creative Component Idea Starters sheet for inspiration. Choose one theme to build on or use the quotes as foundations for new ideas. Your submission may be an essay, a video, a portfolio, or other similar means to share your tale. If it’s an essay, you’ll probably need more than ten words-but fewer than a Harry Potter novel.
goes for other modes of communication. (Oftentimes, it takes more skill and insight to communicate an
Part 4: On- Campus Participation
Part of creativity is expression — and we want to hear from you! After completing this application and submitting your creative component, we want you to share, express, and expand your ideas by attending the Scholarship Day Invitational on Saturday,
Each applicant will meet with members of the Mount Mercy community (i.e., students, faculty, sta�, administrators, and alumni) to discuss their submitted work and compete for additional monies.
We want to encourage, recognize, and reward your innovative ideas and achievements.
To participate in the Scholarship Day Invitational , please follow the instructions below.
Submit required materials to the Admissions Office before February 1, 2012.
Scholarship Day Invitational Application
Part 2: Activity Chart
You are more than a student. Tell us about your involvement outside of the classroom. Complete the Scholarship Day Activity Chart
Part 1: General Information
First Name: Last Name: Middle Initial: Phone: Email: By signing below, I acknowledge that the information above is correct and all submitted material was completed by no one other than myself. Signature: Date:
We understand, of course, that life is busy. If you have a calendar con�ict, or if travel to campus poses a
signi�cant barrier, please visit with your Admissions Counselor about alternatives. You can also visit campus on February 9th or 10th, or we can arrange a phone or skype conversation with you.
The same
powerfully, yet concisely.)idea
demonstrate your participation in activities throughout your high school career.(or type your own using the same column headings) to
February 11, 2012.
have applied and been accepted to Mount Mercy University to be part of the Scholarship Day Invitational.You need to
You are more than a student. Tell us about your involvement outside of the classroom. Neatly complete the Scholarship Day Activity Chart below to demonstrate your participation in activities throughout your high school career. (You may also type your own list, similarly designed.) Use the following heading descriptions as a guide:
Activity: Name the activity in which you participated (i.e., National Honor Society, Soccer, Tutoring)
Description: Brie�y describe the activity
Category: List whether the activity is Athletics, Church, Community, Extracurricular, or Volunteer
Role: List the role you had in the activity (i.e. Captain, Member, Vice President, Member)
Involvement: List the grades in which you participated in the activity (i.e. 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th)
Commitment: List the estimated number of hours per week in which you participate in the activity
Scholarship Day Activity Chart
Activity Description Category Role Involvement Commitment
Scholarship Day Activity Chart
Activity Description Category Role Involvement Commitment
Scholarship Day Creative Component Idea Starters
William Ernest Henley, English poet
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall �nd me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. Have you ever faced personal jeopardy but found the strength to persevere?
Excerpt from “The Dash” Linda Ellis
Author, speaker, poet www.lindaslyrics.com
“While it still amazes me, a simple poem I wrote one
afternoon in 1996 forever changed my life...Titled sim-ply The Dash, these 36 lines have touched millions of lives and have literally taken on a life of their own by
traveling all over the world.”
The Dash is a poem about the little line (the dash mark) located between the date of birth and the date
of death on a grave marker.
“So when your eulogy is being read With your life’s actions to rehash
Would you be proud of the things they say About how you spent your dash?”
How will you live the dash?
Carol Tyx, Associate Professor of English
Mount Mercy University
He makes it look so easy, shedding hair after hair as they slide to the surface and �oat across the couch, not even noticing the bits of himself coming loose.
Some changes are bright and boisterous.
Other changes are fairly subtle.
How have you grown through your years in high school?
How will you change in college?
Michael Jordan Basketball superstar
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game - winning shot...and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in
Have you experienced failure? What have you learned? Tell us how your survive - and thrive.
Mother Teresa Catholic Nun, Nobel Peace Prize winner
“I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing
to do with it.”
Matt Groening Creator of The Simpsons “I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn’t think I’d ever get paid for it, didn’t think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.”
What’s your Passion?
The Mustang is not only the mascot for Mount Mercy University, but it is a symbol of the characteristics our students represent.
