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Should i list % of merit scholarship? It's a little over 50%

I've wondered about that too. It might look a little more classy to write for ex., "[bullet] Awarded Dean's half tuition scholarship" vs. "Awarded Dean's Scholarship worth $25,000"

Edit: But I don't really know. Maybe it's classiest to just leave the amount off. Hopefully someone will chime in who's heard advice from a career councelor about this.

Listing the amount seems tacky, but if your scholarship has a name (i.e. dean's scholarship), list the name.

olanderp wrote:Listing the amount seems tacky, but if your scholarship has a name (i.e. dean's scholarship), list the name.

I never even put my scholarship on my resume. If it has no name, is it best just to leave it off? I can't see why an employer would care that you were getting money from the school.

I am curious about this too. In my case, the scholarship is 100k+, is it worth mentioning at all? I have it as "recipient: xxx xxx school of law merit scholarship." (In italics and rather small)

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olanderp wrote:Listing the amount seems tacky, but if your scholarship has a name (i.e. dean's scholarship), list the name.

I never even put my scholarship on my resume. If it has no name, is it best just to leave it off? I can't see why an employer would care that you were getting money from the school.

My career services told me to put the name of my scholarship on my resume. If yours doesn't have a name, I think you should call your career services to see if you can mention it another capacity (i.e. general "merit" scholarship). If not, I'd probably leave it off.

I don't think employers really care that much though, unless it were something super prestigious like a full-ride that only 10 people get in your class. Once you enter law school, your law school grades replace your LSAT/GPA (which is probably why career services wanted us to list the names of scholarships in the first place).

highhopes09 wrote:Should i list % of merit scholarship? It's a little over 50%

No. Talking money is tacky.

Don't do this. Believe it or not I've seen PROFESSORS' c.v.'s where they listed every award/fellowship/grant they ever won, including monetary amounts, AND including awards they turned down. Needless to say, I think people who do this are douchebags.

kmap wrote:Don't do this. Believe it or not I've seen PROFESSORS' c.v.'s where they listed every award/fellowship/grant they ever won, including monetary amounts, AND including awards they turned down. Needless to say, I think people who do this are douchebags.

I am pretty sure this is standard procedure, at least in some disciplines. Think about your ability to get large grants as being like your "book of business."

I put my scholarship on my resume because it is a full-tuition merit scholarship, awarded to about 1% of students. I do this because it makes me look like I was on top of the entering class based on UGPA and LSAT, even though I wasn't.

I list it as: "[School Name] Scholar (full-tuition merit scholarship)" where the first part is the scholly name.

Anonymous User wrote:I put my scholarship on my resume because it is a full-tuition merit scholarship, awarded to about 1% of students. I do this because it makes me look like I was on top of the entering class based on UGPA and LSAT, even though I wasn't.

I list it as: "[School Name] Scholar (full-tuition merit scholarship)" where the first part is the scholly name.

By all means list the scholarships and the names of those scholarships, but DO NOT list the amounts of money. It's tacky, it's nobody's business, and no one cares. A professor that does this, is a douche.

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kmap wrote:Don't do this. Believe it or not I've seen PROFESSORS' c.v.'s where they listed every award/fellowship/grant they ever won, including monetary amounts, AND including awards they turned down. Needless to say, I think people who do this are douchebags.

I am pretty sure this is standard procedure, at least in some disciplines. Think about your ability to get large grants as being like your "book of business."

I don't think this is true, at least not in the humanities, or at least not in my discipline. I've seen a lot of academic C.V.'s and all of them list things like publications, names of awards, courses taught, and professorships held, but I've only seen monetary amounts listed in a couple of instances, and I always thought it was tacky and absolutely unnecessary.

But regardless of whether I'm technically correct, I think you stand to gain nothing by including monetary amounts; you only run the risk of pissing somebody off. I'd steer clear.

I list my scholarship on my resume with the name of the scholarship and then a brief explanation that the scholarship includes tuition and a living stipend. I attended a TTT out of state, so I think the scholarship hints to employers why I attended a TTT out of state.

During school, I interned for a USCOA judge. I asked the judge's clerks to review my resume because I was applying for clerkships. One clerk recommended omitting the tuition/stipend language but keeping the name of the scholarship. Another clerk (Harvard grad, FWIW), recommended keeping the tuition/stipend language because the award was unique. He said sometimes just the name of the scholarship doesn't convey information that suggests how important the scholarship is. Upon hearing that, the first clerk agreed.

So, I think if you have a named scholarship (not necessarily with a donor name, could be "Dean's" or "President's" or whatever) that includes full tuition or more, you should probably include the amount of the scholarship. I wouldn't include anything less than full tuition because all schools give out scholarships, and many students receive scholarships that are less than full.

tl;dr -- list the scholarship but not the amount if less than full tuition.

kmap wrote:Don't do this. Believe it or not I've seen PROFESSORS' c.v.'s where they listed every award/fellowship/grant they ever won, including monetary amounts, AND including awards they turned down. Needless to say, I think people who do this are douchebags.

Getting grants is part of a professors job, just like a fund manager will put how much money he was managing on his resume. I have no direct experience in the legal industry, so I don't know, but I suspect this is a bad idea in this case.

Listing the name of the scholarship is fine, but honestly, its not really all the important - the school can give you lots of money, but employers care about your performance once you're in school. After grades, journals, moot court, work experience, maybe a scholarship might have some meaning, but not much.

Hmm. My adviser told me to list the percentage. All of you seem to be against it. Is that based on your gut reaction, or advice from others?

ohnowtf wrote:Hmm. My adviser told me to list the percentage. All of you seem to be against it. Is that based on your gut reaction, or advice from others?

In the grand scheme of things its meaningless... A scholarship shows that the school thought you had potential when they admitted you... either you lived up to it by getting good grades, doing something special (pro bono, etc.) or you didn't - but, your having an X% scholarship isn't going to get you a job