Scholarship Description
Every year, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports thirty New Americans, immigrants or the children of immigrants, who are pursuing graduate school in the United States. Each Fellowship supports one to two years of graduate study in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program in the United States. Each award is for up to a total of $90,000.
Eligibility
You must be a New American who is 30 or younger as of the application deadline, and who is planning on starting or continuing an eligible graduate degree program full-time in the United States. You may apply to the Fellowship while you are applying to graduate school, or after you are already enrolled in graduate school.
To be eligible, your birth parents must have both been born outside of the US as non-US citizens, and both parents must not have been eligible for US citizenship at the time of their births.
The competition is merit-based. Selection criteria emphasize creativity, originality, initiative, and sustained accomplishment. The program values a commitment to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The program does not have any quotas for types of degrees, universities or programs, countries of origin, or gender, etc.
Eligibility Requirements
- Type of institution award is open to: four-year college
- Award is available to U.S. citizens
- Award is available to Canadian citizens
- Award is available to citizens of countries other than the U.S. and Canada.
Application Requirements
- Application form required
- Transcript required
- Test scores required
- Interview required
- Essay required
- Recommendations or references required
- Special requirements exist (These are specified in text.)
- Entry in a contest required
- Resume Required
- Proof of resident status
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The organization provides opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields.
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