How to Help Your Child Apply Successfully to Graduate School
Applying to graduate school can be a highly stressful process. As an applicant’s parent, you naturally want to help them,…
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Stride Funding: Where Your Education is an Investment and not a Debt [Episode 495]
Find out how you can benefit from Stride Funding [Show Summary] Tess Michaels shares what’s new at Stride Funding, the…
How to Compose the Small Components of Large Grant Applications Like the Fulbright
Like many large grants, Fulbright applications require candidates to compose a number of small written components throughout the document. Most…
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…
Writing the Fulbright Statement of Grant 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…
5 Lessons Learned When Winning a Fulbright on the Third Try
It was during my master’s program at the University of Cambridge, that I realized how much I wanted Brazil to…
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…
Applying to the Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program: Everything You Need to Know [2022 – 2023]
Everything you need to know about the Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program Overview: What is the KHS Program?Who is eligible to…
Empowering International Students with the Financing for Grad Ed [Episode 475]
How can an international student pay for grad school in the U.S. or Canadian graduate education? [Show Summary] MPOWER Financing…
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…
How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose [Episode 473]
How to Write a Statement of Purpose That Gets You Accepted [Show Summary] Vanessa Febo is a PhD candidate in…
The Myth of the Fully-Funded PhD: Using Scholarships to Mitigate the Financial Realities of Research Degrees
When you decide to go to graduate school of any kind, you are making a financial decision that will dramatically…
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…
How to Write a Grant Proposal: 6 Tips for Winning the Big Bucks!
Applying for financial grants to fund research, academically-related travel, and other expenses is often part and parcel of the graduate…
Entrepreneurship at HBS: How Stride will Help You Fund Your Future [Episode 341]
Learn about HBS 2+2 from Tess Michaels, entrepreneur and HBS 2+2 student [Show Summary] Stride Funding is an innovative start-up…
A Harvard PhD Student and Admissions Consultant Shares Her Story [Episode 328]
Interview with Rachel Slutsky, Accepted admissions consultant [Show summary] Want to know what makes for stupendous statements of purpose or…
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…
A 5-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…
STEM Graduate Applicants: Get the Scoop 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…
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…