• Overview of the
  Fellowships Program

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• Fellowships Warranty
• Skills Acquired
  Through Applying
• Survey Findings
• Letters from
  Non-Selected
  Applicants
• Alumnae Look Back

Benefits From Applying

Skills Acquired Through Applying

Some of the invaluable life skills acquired during the fellowships application process:

• Application layout.
• Being articulate about and able to defend one's own beliefs and views.
• Goal defining and career planning.
• Community service.
• Current affairs.
• Developing a life story with one's background leading to the fellowship application that connects to one's goals to improve society.
• Developing well-informed opinions.
• Getting to know professors to the point that they know you well enough to write references for you.
• Impeccable grammar.
• Initiative, resourcefulness, perseverance.
• Interviewing.
• Leadership.
• Networking.
• Recommendation letter procurement.
• Responsibility, time management and maturity.
• Resume composition.
• Self-presentation.
• Self-reflection leading to self-knowledge.
• Speaking comfortably with adults as an adult.
• Speaking to groups.
• The application-essay or grant-writing genre including personal statements, intellectual biographies, and project, program and academic proposals.