Every year, Bryn Mawr students apply for a number of prestigious national scholarships and fellowships, often with great success. These fellowships may provide funding for the last years of undergraduate education, for graduate education both in the US and abroad, or even for travel and independent research not tied to an academic institution. What all these fellowships have in common is an arduous and time-consuming application process. Applications may commonly require a "personal statement," a specific proposal for research or a course of study, one or more interviews, anywhere from three to eight letters of recommendation, as well as often tortuous biographical data forms. Thus, you must begin to familiarize yourself with the applications requirements well in advance of deadlines.

Several fellowships require official institutional nomination, and for all of these, an initial application must be submitted to the Dean's Office by a deadline that may be more than two months before the external deadline. The Committee on Fellowships and Prizes generally will interview applicants in order to prepare the letter of nomination, or, in cases the number of nominees is limited, as part of the internal selection process.

On this website, you will find information and guidance on the fellowships, and the application process from beginning to end gathered from inside and outside resources. The website is geared to helping you as much as possible throughout these various phases.

If you're interested in applying for any of these fellowships, please fill out this questionnaire to let Dean Mancini know of your interest and to learn a little bit about you. You may submit a questionnaire at any time. Rising seniors should submit it by August 1 before their senior year.

Information sessions for graduate fellowships will be held for juniors each semester. Personal statement workshops will also be held. The dates and times will be posted on this page and on the Bryn Mawr College Calendar. Please continue to check back for this information.

FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE for Fall Semester 2006:

Administrative Staff
Michelle Mancini, Assistant Dean	Fellowships Adviser/Committee Member
Lori Felton-O'Brien	Assistant Fellowships Adviser
Anne Marie McElwee	Administrative Assistant

Fellowship Committee
Michelle Mancini, Assistant Dean	Fellowships Advisor/Committee Member
Mehmet-Ali Atac, Archaeology	Committee Member
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, History	Committee Member
Karen Greif, Biology	Committee Member
Ayumi Takenaka, Sociology	Committee Member

 

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