Deadlines are a ways off, but start thinking about them now. Here are a range of scholarships that allow you to study (undergraduate and graduate), research and travel overseas. Many of them should be applied for during your junior year, with some exceptions. Deadlines below are for on-campus applications, which is your first step. Read more here from our fellowship office and go see them. If you're a PG major, come see me and we'll work on your application together.
Fulbright (Worldwide): May 1
Rhodes (Oxford UK): May 1
Marshall (UK): May 1
Mitchell (Ireland): May 1
Gates (Cambridge): May 1
Davies-Jackson (Cambridge): May 1 (this scholarship does cover the social sciences)
I was recently talking to one of our majors who in short order was offered an NSEP (to study in Egypt), a Rotary, and is now one our university's two finalists for the Watson. What was the secret to his success, I asked? Perfect GPA? Amazing abilities in application writing? Secret powers of mind control?
No, it was more prosaic than that. He researched the applications, figured out what the grantors were looking for in an applicant, and...here's the catch...he actually applied for them.
"90% of life is just showing up" --Woody Allen
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