HKS Fellowships: Gleitsman v. Dubin

[gradjm]

All they say on the website is that you should think seriously about which fellowship is best for you, but that you're not prohibited from applying to multiple fellowships.  If you think you can make a good case for both Gleitsman and Dubin, then it sounds like you could apply for both (I could see how it would be possible, though not very common, to be both and activist and someone who overcame adversity and is committed to transformational change).  

 

No idea on the competitive nature of the fellowships, probably the only people who could tell you that work for the CPL.  It did seem from the website that certain fellowships like the Presidential Fellowship (which is not through CPL) are more competitive than others, if only because they specifically said  this is Harvard's highest award. But you have to assume the answer to how competitive is "very".  Most applicants will, I think, be applying for fellowships (though not everyone for the same fellowship), and your chances of getting a fellowship are probably lower than your chances of getting in to Harvard. But it costs nothing to apply for them (other than time), so why not go for it? 

 

Presidential fellowships don't appear on HKS fellowship page  https://pubapps.hks.harvard.edu/enrollment/fellowships/Default.aspx

 

Aren't presidential fellowships only for summer unlike CPL fellowships?

 

http://service.harvard.edu/presidential-fellowships