Reply to Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, and other post-grad scholarships?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, and other post-grad scholarships?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My rising senior is thinking about applying for a post-graduate scholarship. She has been a stellar and well rounded student at her flagship university. My MIL says that these scholarships are mainly for the "elite" colleges and that I should just "pony up" and pay for grad school. Any truth to the assertion that these are only for "elite" colleges? Putting that aside, I know Rhodes is probably darn near impossible to get.  What about all of these others?[/quote]

I think that people here are being way too negative about the prospects of kids from big state schools.

My impression is that state flagships and non-Ivy T50s find ways to keep their Harvard-level students a lot of extra support.

They may end up knowing administrators, faculty members, trustees and even public officials in ways that ordinary good students.

So, one thing for your daughter to consider is who she knows at her university. If she’s pretty plugged in, she may be on a roughly even footing with students of a comparable level at Cornell, at least.

She may face a struggle between whether she wants a fancy fellowship or to go work as an aide in the statehouse or on Capitol Hill.

If she’s not that plugged in and has never met the head of her university or the chairman of the board of trustees in person, that might be a sign that she’s not quite as charismatic or socially aggressive as the people who tend to be Rhodes scholars.

If she is a super go-getter, one thing she could do is try to talking to the dean of her college at the university (e.g., the head of the College of Arts & Sciences or the equivalent) and ask that person about her odds.

If she’s not that ultra-plugged-in, maybe she could just apply to ordinary grad school programs, including even master’s programs, that offer study abroad opportunities and see what happens. They tend to offer less aid than undergraduate schools, but they have some. Example: I got free tuition at a master’s program without being all that special.

Still another option: She could apply for ordinary master’s programs in any language she speaks well in EU countries with cheap tuition. With a little luck, she could probably hold the cost to less than $15,000 per year.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics