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I received an email from the WB on 4th Feb that I have been nominated to apply for a JJ WBG Scholarship. I have to fill out an application which is due on 17th Feb.
 

Same here!!! Congratulations! And I will be applying to the UNESCO fellowship as well, there's no way I can afford the program with the amount of merit aid currently provided :( ... good luck to you & perhaps we will see each other at Penn come fall :)

Thank you! I submitted my application in December and got the acceptance yesterday.
And thanks, will follow that thread. I have applied for the UNESCO fellowship, the result of which will be released in April. I was just wondering if they provide any merit scholarship and if they do, what is the maximum that they give.

I don't know if traditional advice would be relevant this year given how crazy competitive the applicant pool is.

Traditionally there is roughly 3 tiers
Tier 1 - is full with stipend (McCourt Scholars)
*not much in between
Tier 2 - is about $20Kish a year 
Tier 3 - 10Ksish and below
That might be the best guide I can give.
However, admissions knows that many will negotiate and they will prioritize who they want to get. 

You can leverage scholarship from another school to get more money. However, at the end of the day it is about who they want to prioritize.
Traditionally, I know people who simply got money by asking - but those were when admissions pools were weak. Those were the days when people with sub 3.0 GPAs and a year or so of teaching English abroad could get funding.
This cycle... between COVID and much more political passion across the country --> applications have likely gone super competitive and other policy schools have shown indicators of this. 

All the people that don't get accepted into HKS, Princeton, and Harris that are still pretty awesome will be barking up McCourt.

Historically, your admissions comes with an announcement of McCourt Scholars Program. They like those with unique backgrounds and/or HYP/Duke/NW or Oxbridge backgrounds with easily defined policy interests.