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[quote=Anonymous]I read fellowship applications for one of these programs several years ago (I am a former award winner.) my sense is that the kids from the no name college who are not getting good advice sometimes get dinged  and screened out early in the selection program because their applications are much less focused.

The girl from Harvard will say “I am interested in disability studies and this is why I need to do this program in Ireland and not one in the US. And I spoke with this professor from Limerick and here is a letter from her in support of my application, etc.” Other example: guy from Ivy Leagus school interested in “how the justice system deals with people whose crimes may be politically motivated” and then talks at length about a senior thesis he already wrote which references a number of novels that deal with political criminals, etc.

Kids from small schools will apply for a grad degree in English or politics and often don’t realize that a particular school is strong in linguistics or critical theory or a specific approach -so that even if it has the program they want, they are not a match with that approach etc. Idealy the student will have read work by the professors in the program and will have correspondence with the professor and we tend not to see that from the small schools. The faculty letters are also often more generic and much weaker. 
remember also that often you are competing with at large applicants who are older and have more real world experience. You have to be as focus as they are![/quote]

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