Goldwater Scholarship: Campus Submission Instructions

Below are the instructions for submitting your Goldwater Scholarship application for the University of Vermont campus competition. In addition to submitting your application, we recommend that you keep an extra copy of your application for your own records. By noon on Friday, December 11: Click “submit” on your online application. If you are unsure whether […]

50 Common Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

Educated Nation has come up with a list of 50 Interview Questions (and how to answer them). Most of these questions are relevant for job interviews, but this underscores the importance of anticipating interview questions and figuring out how to answer them BEFORE you go into any kind of interview, be it a fellowship interview, […]

Prepare for your Fulbright Interview

The University of Vermont campus deadline for Fulbright Grants has come and gone. The next stage of the process will be a campus review of the applications, which includes an interview with the University of Vermont Fellowships Committee. It’s important to prepare in advance for the on-campus interview; get plenty of rest the night before […]

Fall ’09 Fulbright Interviews

Fulbright Interviews – Fall 2009 Room 034 E – U-Heights North (Honors College Conference Room) It is imperative that you be on time for your interview. We cannot reschedule interviews to meet your course schedule unless you have something truly pressing (an exam—that’s about it). If you need our office to send a note to […]

Instructions for Fulbright Recommenders

The Fulbright competition is a particularly complex one for our office: the Fulbright office requires both online and hard copy applications and it necessitates that our office at UVM act as the clearinghouse for what amounts to hundreds of documents from the many (over twenty this year) applicants we have for Fulbright grants. For this […]

On the Eve of the Campus Deadline: Tips to Clean Up Your Fulbright Application

As more students stop by the Fellowships Office asking for feedback on their third, fourth, or fifth Fulbright application draft, more students are getting feedback that says something like, “Clean it up and you’re good to go.” There’s good news and bad news when you get that comment: The good news is you’re only one […]

Fulbright Submission for September 18 UVM Deadline

Information Sheet for Internal Submission of Fulbright Applications This information sheet covers the procedures around the first application deadline of September 18, 2009. Early in October, we will circulate another set of instructions involving the final submission of your Fulbright application for the final October 19 deadline. Please follow these instructions to the letter. We […]

Writing Personal Statements

Doug Cutchins of Grinnell College, a colleague of mine, put together a wonderfully helpful document on writing personal statements. He’s generously made it available for the rest of us fellowships advisors to share with our students. So here it is, one of the most helpful discussions I’ve seen on the personal statements all fellowship candidates […]

Welcome to Brit Chase!

This month, we are excited to welcome Brit Chase to fellowships advising at UVM; she will be working with me (Lisa Schnell) to advise students across the campus in national fellowship and scholarship competitions. After graduation from Hamilton College and then from Columbia University (with a Masters in Journalism), Brit worked as a journalist before […]

Fellowships and Deadlines for 2009-2010

Here is a quick list of some of the major national fellowships we advise on in the Honors College and their deadlines for 2009-2010. The first date is the internal UVM deadline–all materials must be turned in to Lisa Schnell in U-Heights North by that date. The second date is the external deadline when all […]