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Fulbright Fellowship
What:
A scholarship for one year's study or research abroad. Scholarships are available in 140 countries. The award was established by Congress after World War II to promote international understanding.
Who is eligible:
Qualified graduating seniors may apply. They need not have formulated specific career plans. Graduate students may also apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Preference is given to applicants who have received most of their high school and college education in the U.S. Applicants must hold the bachelor's degree at the beginning of the grant and must have enough proficiency in the written and spoken language of the host country to carry out the proposed study. UCI students must turn in all materials by the internal deadline to be considered for this award. Please see the front page of the SOP website for detailed application deadlines.
Selection Procedure:
If you are an undergraduate, use the electronic application system to submit your first application draft to the Scholarship Opportunities Program by April 12, 2010. Your supporting documents, including three faculty letters of recommendation, are also due that day. Letters should be written to the attention of the "Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee" and be specifically tailored toward your application as a Fulbright Scholar. Students may hand deliver the letters in signed, sealed envelopes or referees may submit them to the SOP directly. Your final draft (including official versions of all supporting materials) is due on September 28, 2010. Candidates submit this draft through the electronic application system and must also ensure supporting materials have been received by the SOP on this date.
The Fulbright Program will NOT accept research grant-formatted reference letters for ETA applicants; writers must submit the ETA-designated reference form. Fulbright also requires that these ETA reference forms be submitted in hard copy, after the recommender has filled them out online, to the SOP office for inclusion in official, campus-sanctioned application packages. Once your recommenders have completed the reference form, they can print the PDF form and provide a copy to the applicant in a sealed envelope.
The UCI Fulbright committee will interview candidates to determine whether their applications have earned campus endorsement. The University will endorse those candidates the Committee feels have the potential to be Fulbright Scholars and will offer feedback for refining the application.
SOP staff and the office of the Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education will write comprehensive nomination letters for each endorsed candidate and will send your complete application materials (including reference letters) and the nomination letter to the Institute of International Education, which administers the awards.
Finalists will be notified early in 2011, and awards announced in late spring.
Deadline: Pre-Application 4/12/2010 (Due to SOP)
Who wins:
Winning seniors have strong academic records, good language preparation for the country intended, and a feasible study project. They make a persuasive case for why they would benefit from study in a particular country and/or at a particular university. To make that case, talk to a professor who has been there, and read catalogues of appropriate universities (available in the library and the Center for International Education). Odds are improved by applying to countries with comparatively low ratios of applicants to slots; in particular, consider destinations other than the United Kingdom. Individuals who have spent a year abroad in a university program are considered to be desirable candidates.
Of the 7,257 undergraduate and graduate students who applied for Fulbright Fellowships throughout the world during the 2009-2010 competition, approximately 1,594 received funding.
In 2009, UCI's Valerie Dao, Kathryn Farrar, and Andy Hoang received Fulbright Fellowships. Robert Amador and Sky Johnston were finalists, and Tuong Van Nguyen was an alternate.
Finances:
These awards vary by country; they relect both the cost of living and the length of the academic year in the country. Grants generally provide round-trip transportation, language or orientation courses (where appropriate), tuition, books, maintenance for the academic year based on living costs in the host country, and health and accident insurance. Specific information concerning finances for each country is included in the annual Fulbright booklet, available for review in the Undergraduate and Graduate Studies offices.
Comments:
Fulbrights are prestigious, career-enhancing awards. They also confer special status on winners during their year of foreign study, as outstanding, officially recognized representatives of their country. Famous Fulbright recipients include Thomas Pickering, John Lithgow, and Renee Fleming. Most grantees plan their own programs. Projects may include university coursework, independent library or field research, classes in a music conservatory or art school, special projects in the social or life sciences, or a combination of such plans.
World Wide Web: Further information and applications are available at:
http://www.iie.org/Template.cfm?section=Fulbright1
For applications and more information, contact the Scholarship
Opportunities Program at 824-5461 in the Office of the Campuswide
Honors Program, 1200 Student Services II.
SOP is able to provide counseling and applications to UCI Students only.
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Division of Undergraduate Education