Tips & Advice
Preparing Your Application
- Understanding Graduate Funding
- Fellowship Application Cycles and Timelines
- Fellowships and the Ph.D. / Dissertation Process
- Finding Funding for Graduate Study and Research
- Application Package
- Application Essay Tips
- Personal Statements
- Getting Better Letters of Recommendation
- Do You Need to Work With the Office of Sponsored Programs?
- Fellowship Advice for International Students – NEW!
Advice for Specific Competitions
- Boren Fellowship: Tips and Advice – UPDATED Essay Advice and Common Pitfalls
- Boren Fellowship: What Makes a Competitive Application (Boren Awards Web Site)
- Critical Language Scholarship: The Basics
- Critical Language Scholarship: Decoding the CLS Essays
- Fulbright Selection Process
- Fulbright Research/Study Grants: Tips and Advice
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Grants: Tips and Advice
- Fulbright: Letters of Affiliation for Research Applicants
- Fulbright Clinton Fellowships
- NIH F31 Grants (Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Fellowships)
- NSF Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students – Overview
- NSF GRFP Operations Center, for info, advice, and screen shots of the application.
- NSF GRFP Basic Information
- NSF GRFP Next Steps
- NSF GRFP Essay Tips
- NSF GRFP Essays – In Depth
- PMF Fact Sheet (U.S. Office of Personnel Management)
- PMF Class of 2017 Application Information
- PMF Class of 2017 Schar School Application Webinar and Other Resources
- EMDAP: Tips and Advice
General Advice
- How to Win a Graduate Fellowship (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Preparing a Successful Fellowship Application (OAH Newsletter)
Foundation Guides on Proposal Writing
- American Council of Learned Societies Proposal Writing Guide
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Advice
- Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Advice
- NSF Guide for Proposal Writing
- Social Science Research Council, The Art of Writing Proposals
Other Resources
- GradCafe Forums – “The Bank” Graduate students trade information and advice on the fellowship application process in this forum at the GradCafe web site.
- Rutgers GradFund Conversations – Rutgers University’s Graduate Funding Blog Offers Information, Advice, and Mentoring for graduate students seeking external funding.