Does anyone want to read my NSF GRFP Personal Statement?

[isilya]

Hi all,

 

The social sciences NSF GRFP deadline is tomorrow (!!) and it's also been my 21st birthday weekend so of course I'm putting off submitting til the last minute does anyone want to read my Personal, Relevant Background, and Future Goals Statement and give a bit of feedback? It's pretty short, 1.5 pages single-spaced.

 

Basically I want to show that I can do research, have experience being a teacher and mentor to undergrads (dem Broader Impacts), and will make a great professor after grad school if they give me money. My field is Psychology -- Psycholinguistics in case anyone is interested!

[bsharpe269]

Happy Birthday! I am just finishing mine up too! Any desire to swap and give eachother feedback? I will submitting under biophysics.

 

One little note, have you checked out any of the winning statements in social sciences? All of the funded statements that I have seen used the entire 3 pages to give as much information as possible. It might be worth thinking about adding some more to it (though on the other hand, no need to make it unnecessarily long if you cover everything you need to).

[isilya]

Yes, let's do that! I'll PM you

[Dedi]

I can also take a look, considering that I'm not doing the NSF grant (I'm applying to Canadian schools). Might be a new perspective.