Pantone257

Just got news that I have been accepted for the Fulbright University of the Arts London award! So sorry to those who didn't make it past the final stage, and congrats to those who did!

recommended to the UK! cabooklover, so sorry to hear it didn't work out for you - but best of luck getting to birmingham, i know you'll do great! congrats to the other finalists, and good luck to everyone in their future endeavors. now i gotta prep for that (potential) telephone interview... SCREEEEEEEEE!

Yeah, the deadline for applications to my program isn't until May! So applying in December is super early, but, like you said, the deadlines don't seem to be fixed...kind of a rolling cycle or something. I've also had a hard time finding other scholarships...I graduated in 2008 and the cutoff for Marshall is 2009 - booo! So Fulbright seems to be the only option for me - it's that or loans...(and I haven't quite decided if it's worth going into debt over). I've been living in Israel for a little over two years. I'll be back in the States in March - just in time to find out about Fulbright (provided I make it that far!)

I didn’t get a formal letter from the writing center…I only had email correspondence, which I was prepared to make into a PDF and submit, but the program manager recommended that I not include it as part of the application, so I only mentioned it in the proposal. I also submitted a letter from the director of the master’s program I applied to. I was really confused about affiliation letters for the UK in general, and had a hard time getting a clear answer about them, but eventually learned that since acceptance letters count as affiliation letters—and because the Fulbright deadline was months before most university application deadlines—it wasn’t necessary to submit an affiliation letter when we submitted the application. I was told that once we receive formal acceptance letters into the master’s programs that we would submit them, but only if offered a grant. So yeah, all the hoops I had to jump through to get a formal letter from the university saying that I was a good candidate for the course wasn’t entirely necessary…but hopefully it will help! Did you have a similar experience, or did you manage to get into the university early enough to have an acceptance letter on hand to submit as an affiliation? In any case, I think it’s good that you had something to submit. I just sent my university application about a week ago—hopefully I’ll hear back before February, just in case I make the first cut and get a phone interview, so I can confirm that all is set and I am actually in the program. It’s great that you’re planning to apply to Goodenough – I honestly can’t think of a better way to engage in intercultural exchange than that (it’ll be like living in a mini-UN!), and surely you’ll be able to find some kind of extra-curricular community involvement that is related to your field that way. But even if it isn’t directly related, I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. Being able to show that you have a range of interests and involvement just makes you that much more well-rounded, and will enrich your experience in London...and I think the Commission would eat it up in your reports. It must have been a huge help to use previous examples of successful applications as a guide. I’m currently living abroad, so I applied at-large and wasn’t able to access any on-campus resources. But I scoured the internet for any and all kinds of Fulbright resources like it was my full.time.job. I was able to find a few of examples of successful proposals and got a good idea of how to organize my thoughts succinctly. At this stage, I am just trying to be detached…we did the best we can and now it’s up to the experts. I’ve had the opposite issue as you…I’m scared to go back and read my application! I haven’t looked at it once since I submitted it. I’m a little terrified that I’ll find some glaring error, and then I would freak out 100x more than I kind of already am. I’m trying to put it out of my head and proceed with making plans as if it’s not going to happen…that way, if it doesn’t, I’ll (hopefully) be on to something else and be really excited about that, or I’ll be pleasantly surprised (ecstatic, actually) come March. Best of luck to everyone! I look forward to this forum blowing up a lot more in the coming weeks – it’s great to read everyone’s experiences and be able to commiserate with others on this painstaking process!

I applied to do a master's in publishing at London College of Communication. As part of my proposal, I made arragements to volunteer at a non-profit creative writing center for youth, to serve as a tutor and help publish their anthology of student works...pretty straight forward, and congruent with the goals outlined in my proposal. What will you be studying at the Warburg Institute? In the end, how did you connect it with community involvement in your proposal?

I also applied to the UK - glad to find another person on this forum! I applied for the University of the Arts London award, how about you?

Hello all! Anyone else applying to the UK to obtain a master's degree at a specific university? Just looking for any advice about how to weave that intention into a proposal that is compelling - obviously the goal is to say more than "I am interested in abc and getting a master's degree at so-and-so university will help me do xyz." Any feedback would be awesome, thanks!