Tweet for a Scholarship?

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Last week, USA Today published an article about a new trend in the race for scholarships: Tweeting. While the main contest in the article was about University of Iowa’s tweeting contest to win a two-year scholarship to their MBA program, there are also descriptions of three additional contest geared toward undergraduates.

So start writing your best 140 word tweet! This may be a future trend worth begin prepared for!

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Tweet for a Scholarship?

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