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August 2, 2022

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Applying to the Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program: Everything You Need to Know [2022 – 2023]

Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program Overview

Everything you need to know about the Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program Overview: What is the KHS Program? Who is eligible to apply? Unique application deadlines and procedures KHS Acceptance Rate Application elements: Resume Recommendation letters Institutional letter of endorsement Short answer questions Essay question Video statement What is the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program? The Stanford Knight–Hennessy… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, Law Financial Aid, MBA Financial Aid, Med Financial Aid, Stanford GSB, Stanford Law, Stanford MSx, Stanford University School of Medicine

June 21, 2022

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Empowering International Students with the Financing for Grad Ed [Episode 475]

Sasha Ramani 475 June 2022

How can an international student pay for grad school in the U.S. or Canadian graduate education? [Show Summary] MPOWER Financing has changed the graduate education financing industry by offering international students loans with no collateral or co-signer requirement. Sasha Ramani, the Associate Director of Corporate Strategy explains how they do this responsibly and shares his… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Other Healthcare Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, Harvard Kennedy School, international student, Law Financial Aid, Masters in Public Policy, MBA Financial Aid, Med Financial Aid, podcast

June 9, 2022

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The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Application Essay Tips

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Application Essay Tips

Paul Soros was often overshadowed by his younger brother, financial wizard George Soros, but he was a successful businessman and multi-millionaire in his own right. In contrast to George Soros’s success in the financial industry, Paul Soros made his mark on the world by innovating in the shipping industry, filing patents, and winning several engineering… 

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Article by Jennifer Bloom / Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / diversity, Grad Financial Aid, Law Financial Aid, MBA Financial Aid, Med Financial Aid

June 7, 2022

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How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose [Episode 473]

Vanessa Febo 473 May 2022

How to Write a Statement of Purpose That Gets You Accepted [Show Summary] Vanessa Febo is a PhD candidate in English Literature at UCLA and a writing instructor who has guided students to acceptance at top programs at Harvard, Stanford, and USC. In this episode, she shares her expert tips on mastering the writing required… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions, Other Healthcare Admissions / grad application essays, Grad Financial Aid, law application essays, mba application essays, med application essays, PhD, podcast

May 29, 2022

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The Myth of the Fully-Funded PhD: Using Scholarships to Mitigate the Financial Realities of Research Degrees

The Myth of the Fully-Funded PhD

When you decide to go to graduate school of any kind, you are making a financial decision that will dramatically affect your earning capacity for the duration of the program and throughout your life. While the caliber of school, available mentorship opportunities, and research resources are important factors to consider when making a decision about… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, PhD, what is a scholarship series

August 6, 2021

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Schwarzman Scholars Application Essay Tips and Deadlines

Schwarzman scholars application essay tips and deadlines

What is the Schwarzman Scholars Program mission? The Schwarzman Scholars Program is a fully funded 1-year master’s program in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Designed in collaboration with prestigious universities such as Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford, the program’s mission is to “build a global community of future leaders who will… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, international student, leadership, Schwarzman Scholars

March 22, 2021

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The Personal Statement That Got Me a Large Scholarship to Cambridge

The personal statement that got me a large scholarship to Cambridge

When I submitted my application for the Masters program in Latin American Studies at Cambridge University, I was a bit lost in life. I was what they call a “super-senior” at UCLA, taking my last three General Education requirements during Fall quarter of a fifth year. I had already walked for graduation the June before… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / grad application essays, Grad Financial Aid, PhD

April 20, 2020

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How to Write a Grant Proposal: 6 Tips for Winning the Big Bucks!

How to write a grant proposal

Applying for financial grants to fund research, academically-related travel, and other expenses is often part and parcel of the graduate student experience. Especially when working on a PhD, you might find yourself regularly seeking funding for conference attendance, research and travel, or summer language acquisition programs. While the money is out there, competition is at… 

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Article by Rachel Slutsky / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid

December 10, 2019

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Entrepreneurship at HBS: How Stride will Help You Fund Your Future [Episode 341]

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Learn about HBS 2+2 from Tess Michaels, entrepreneur and HBS 2+2 student [Show Summary] Stride Funding is an innovative start-up that is revolutionizing student financing with income share arrangements instead of traditional student loans. Today Linda talks to Tess Michaels, founder of Stride Funding, and second-year student at Harvard Business School who joined the class… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / entrepreneurship, Grad Financial Aid, Harvard Business School, HBS 2+2, Law Financial Aid, MBA Financial Aid, Med Financial Aid, paying for med school, podcast

September 11, 2019

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How to Compose the Small Components of Large Grant Applications Like the Fulbright

Writing a confident and thematically driven personal statement for Fulbright

Like many large grants, Fulbright applications require candidates to compose a number of small written components throughout the document. Most people speed through the process of writing these blurbs, fiddling with word combinations within the live application platform to get the character-count just right. But these small clusters of writing should not be an afterthought… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Fulbright Foundation, Grad Financial Aid

September 9, 2019

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Writing a Confident and Thematically Driven Personal Statement for Fulbright

Writing a Confident and Thematically Driven Personal Statement for Fulbright

Like many large grant organizations, the Fulbright Foundation requires applicants to write both a statement of purpose and a personal statement. Regardless of your personal background, a strong personal statement for a large grant application like the Fulbright should always have a clear focus: the content of it should always serve the overarching project proposal… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Fulbright Foundation, Grad Financial Aid

September 6, 2019

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Writing the Fulbright Statement of Grant Purpose as a Practical Document

Writing the Fulbright Statement of Purpose as a Practical Document

During my time at the UCLA Scholarship Resource Center, I worked with several graduate students on the development of large grant proposals like the Fulbright. In that work, I noticed a tendency among humanities and social sciences students to overemphasize the intellectual value of their work in application materials. Repeatedly, I found myself making suggested… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Fulbright Foundation, Grad Financial Aid

September 5, 2019

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5 Lessons Learned When Winning a Fulbright on the Third Try

What I Learned About Grant Writing From Putting Together 3 Fulbright Applications Before Finally Being Selected

It was during my master’s program at the University of Cambridge, that I realized how much I wanted Brazil to be part of my doctoral research. One of the reasons that I returned to UCLA for the PhD, instead of staying at Cambridge, was to engage closely with the campus’ rich resources, faculty, library collections,… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Fulbright Foundation, Grad Financial Aid

September 3, 2019

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A Harvard PhD Student and Admissions Consultant Shares Her Story [Episode 328]

Podcast interview with Rachel Slutsky

Interview with Rachel Slutsky, Accepted admissions consultant [Show summary] Want to know what makes for stupendous statements of purpose or impressive MBA essays? Our guest, and recent addition to Accepted’s team of consultants, is an expert at both. But, for some of you her main claim to fame may be her status as a Harvard… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, MBA Admissions / Accepted Admissions Consultant Interview, Grad Financial Aid, Harvard, military applicants, PhD, podcast

August 5, 2019

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Do Scholarship Databases Like Unigo Actually Work?

Do Scholarship Databases Like Unigo Actually Work?

When I first started teaching students at UCLA how to search effectively for scholarships online, I strongly encouraged students to sign up for Unigo, a profile-based scholarship database. Together, students and I would sit down and discuss strategies for filling out profiles as comprehensively as possible. All too frequently I found myself reminding students to… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, what is a scholarship series

July 28, 2019

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A 5-Step Approach to Generating Your Master List of Scholarship Applications

A Five-Step Approach to Generating Your Master List of Scholarship Applications

Given the decentralized nature of listings for university-funding opportunities, most of the scholarship searches that you conduct will happen on the internet. Rather than depend on automated databases or mobile apps to conduct these searches for you, I strongly suggest that you take a proactive approach by designing and conducting your own experimental searches online…. 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, what is a scholarship series

July 22, 2019

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STEM Graduate Applicants: Get the Scoop on the NSF and Hertz Fellowships

STEM Graduate Appliants Get the Schoop on the NSF and Hertz Fellowships

If you are thinking about putting together an application for a STEM Master’s or PhD program this Fall, you should not miss the opportunity to apply for large grants that will support your research and educational goals. Many of my students at the UCLA Scholarship Resource Center have worked with me throughout their undergraduate degrees,… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, PhD, what is a scholarship series

July 10, 2019

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Scholarship Seekers

7 Habits of Highly Effective Scholarship Seekers

In my four years at the UCLA Scholarship Resource Center (SRC), I must have given my introductory workshop about how to perform effective scholarship searches online to thousands of parents, students, and prospective students. Every time that I picked up the phone, gave campus presentations, or faced someone who had just walked into my office… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, what is a scholarship series

July 5, 2019

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Use These 5 Questions to Conduct a Draft Analysis of Your Scholarship Essay

Use These 5 Questions to Conduct a Draft Analysis of Your Scholarship Essay

Most students do not realize that the process of writing a personal essay for scholarships is more than just a chance to tell stories. It is an opportunity to write a very specific form of argumentation or persuasion. Of course, when it comes to writing about our lives, it is pretty difficult to identify the… 

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Article by Rebecca Lippman / Grad School Admissions / Grad Financial Aid, what is a scholarship series

July 3, 2019

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Fully-Funded PhD Program at Harvard University: How I Got In

Fully-Funded PhD Program at Harvard University

Harvard is one of those places that people often talk about with admiration but rarely as an aspiration. “Could I ever get into Harvard?” is usually a question asked with a great deal of doubt and trepidation. However, thousands have graduated from Harvard over its lengthy and illustrious history, and those people are real people…. 

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Article by Rachel Slutsky / Grad School Admissions / grad application essays, Grad Financial Aid, Harvard, PhD

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