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General Information Below are some helpful documents from previous meetings: Agenda from Spring Informational MeetingTop Scholarship Opportunities for Humanities Top Scholarship Opportunities for Math, Science and Engineering Typical Timelines for Scholarships: Goldwater and Udall Typical Timeline for the Goldwater and Udall Scholarships Spring Freshmen and sophomores interested in applying for the Goldwater or Udall Scholarships should visit the Top Scholarship Office, or Dr. Anne Dougherty (Goldwater) or Deborah Viles (Udall) to discuss their intent to apply for the Goldwater and/or Udall Scholarships in the coming fall. This will ensure that you have accurate information about the CU fall competition. Students should be working or looking for work in a research internship or project in their discipline and meeting their faculty members.Early September Students may download the current application from the websites at www.act.org/goldwater or www.udall.gov/. Sophomores and juniors should begin working on the application and begin preparing information packets (See Asking for Letters of Recommendation) for your referees. Three letters are required discussing your academic abilities, your research abilities and your potential to do excellent and original work in the future. Informational meetings about these scholarship opportunities are held throughout the year. See the Upcoming Events page. Late September Visit with the Faculty Representative or the Top Scholarship Advisor about your application and its progress. October Ask your referees for letters of recommendation. Provide the necessary information to them so they can write an excellent letter for you. Provide them with the necessary forms. Continue to work on your application. Mid-November Final application due to the Top Scholarship Office, Norlin Library, S-429. December and January -- The CU Committees will meet to review applications. Up to four finalists will be selected for Goldwater endorsement. The four finalists will meet with both the Top Scholarship Advisor and the Faculty Representative for further suggestions on revising the application. Up to six finalists will be selected for Udall endorsement The finalists will meet with both the Top Scholarship Advisor and the Faculty Representative for further suggestions on revising the application. Mid-January All documents for the Goldwater Scholarship, including final applications, letters and current transcripts are due to the Top Scholarship Office. Late-January Final applications are mailed to the Goldwater Foundation. Application packets are due to the Foundations by early February.. Early February Final Udall applications are due to the Top Scholarship Office. Mid-February Final Udall applications are due to the Udall Foundation. April Goldwater and Udall Scholars are announced. August 2007 Udall Scholar Orientation week. Typical Timeline for the Truman Scholarship March Sophomores interested in applying for the Truman Scholarship should visit the Top Scholarship Office to discuss their intent to apply for the Truman Scholarship in the coming fall. This will ensure that you have accurate information about the CU fall competition. Students should be actively involved in leadership and community service activities as well as meeting their professors.Mid-September Come to the Truman informational meeting to learn more and ask questions about the scholarship. Look at the Truman website at: www.truman.gov. Mid-September Students should begin working on the Truman application and begin preparing information for the referees. Three letters are required: one from a professor discussing your academic work, one from a person able to verify your participation in a leadership role and one discussing your public or community service. Late September Visit with the Faculty Representative or the Top Scholarship Advisor about your application and its progress. October Ask your referees for letters of recommendation. Provide the necessary information to them so they can write an excellent letter for you. Provide them with the necessary forms. Continue to work on your application. Mid-November Final application due to the Top Scholarship Office. Mid-November -- The CU Truman Committee will meet to review applications and interview promising candidates. Finalists will be selected and provided with suggestions on how to polish the application. Mid-January Final applications and all letters are due to the Top Scholarship Office. Institutional letters of nomination will be drafted. Late January Final applications are mailed to the Truman Foundation. Mid-February Truman Foundation will invite semi-finalists for an interview in March. Early to Mid-March Truman Foundation will interview semi-finalists in Denver. Late March-- Early April Truman Foundation will notify new recipients of the Truman Scholarship. Seniors will be the most likely final applicants for the top graduate scholarships, but in most cases you must begin working on the applications for CU during your junior year (up to a year before these deadlines). START EARLY! Some generalities about these competitions are listed below:
Expected Timeline For Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell and Gates Scholarships January Juniors should begin work on a Marshall application (the CU committee will require a completed Marshall application for the preliminary competition for all of the U.K. Scholarships) and make a list of referees for your application. The Rhodes and Mitchell Scholarships will accept up to 8 letters 4 must be academic. The Marshall Scholarship will accept 4 letters 2 must be academic and the others should discuss your leadership and community service. Gates will require 3 academic letters. Begin assembling an activities list. Begin asking referees for letters.Mid-March Marshall applications due for Rhodes and, Marshall scholarship candidates. This includes four letters of reference. Mitchell candidates must supply an application and five letters to the Top Scholarship Advisor to be forwarded to the CU Committees for review. Late March, early April -- At this point the Committee will identify the most promising students through a survey of the written materials and an interview with the student. The Committee, in concert with the student, will make recommendations about which scholarships may best suit each student. Students selected during this process will then work closely with the Top Scholarship Advisor to make changes to the application based upon Committee recommendations. Students selected at this time are not guaranteed endorsement in the fall. Study-abroad students (and other students, such as transfer students) may enter the CU competition for endorsement in the fall. Summer Students should finalize their applications. Students should type the front pages of the Rhodes and Mitchell applications. Students should be contacting their referees for updated letters due in mid-September. Students should continue to investigate their proposed programs and Universities. Mid-September Final applications due to the CU Committees for final selection of endorsed candidates. Students will make final revisions based on the CU Committees recommendations. Final letters should all be received in the Top Scholarship Advisors Office. CU Committee will write letters of endorsement for students to be signed by the Chancellor. Late September the student and the Top Scholarship Advisor should review final applications one last time for typographical, grammatical or other errors. If no corrections are needed, the student should then make the appropriate number of copies for the Scholarship Foundations and one copy for the Top Scholarship Advisor. Early October Student mails Rhodes and Gates applications and submits the Mitchell application online.. Student brings appropriate number of copies of Marshall application to Top Scholarship Advisor for mailing as a single packet. Students check with their referees to make sure that their letters of recommendation have been written, copied and sent to the appropriate locations Rhodes and Mitchell letters and copies should be sent directly to the appropriate state or national committees (or submitted online) and one copy sent to the Top Scholarship Advisor. Marshall letters and copies should be sent to the Office of the Top Scholarship Advisor where they will be mailed with the applications in a single packet Late October, Early November Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell Foundations begin notifying students invited for interviews. Mid-November Marshall and Mitchell Scholarship interviews held in Houston, TX and Washington, D.C. Scholars selected at this time. Mid-November Rhodes State Committee interviews. If selected as a finalist, later that week students fly to Houston, TX to compete in the Regional Committee interview process. Students selected at that time. Cambridge and the Gates Trust may begin notification of finalists for interviews. Early February 2007 Gates interviews held in Annapolis, Maryland. |
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