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

Podcast interview with Tess Michaels

[powerpress] 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 …

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

Podcast interview with Rachel Slutsky

[powerpress] 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 …

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

A 5 Step Approach to Generating Your Master List of Scholarship Applications 1

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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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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Scholarships Related to 3 Health Communities: Cancer, Mental Health, and Chronic Conditions or Disabilities

Scholarships From Three Major Health Communities

During my four years at the UCLA Scholarship Resource Center, I learned how to work carefully with a diverse group of students through the flexible concept of “community.” In order to connect students with as many scholarship resources as possible, we had to go through a relatively awkward phase of “getting to know the student” …

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