Įvery essay should address both Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts.Įach essay needs explicit headers of Intellectual Merit / Broader Impacts. Personally, I found this extremely useful and I have to give credit to two University of Wisconsin NSF GRFP winners who shared their essays with me, without which I was struggling on how to start the application.įor current discussions on the application process, check out this years NSF GRFP discussion at The GradCafe Forums. I have posted all of my essays (and others) as well as my ratings sheets at the bottom of this page and organized into them into a table. Mallory Ladd - If you can follow her schedule, you should be more than preparedĬlaire Bowen - Lots of advice interleaved with excerpts from successful essaysĭJ Strouse - Applied under old system, but still great advice.īlengineers - Fun video series of application tips You can find more in my examples table at the bottom of the page. There are lots of great advice out there, but in an interest to not overload you, here are my personal top choices. She has a very very thorough guide to the application.

Here is a detailed website from Robin Walker. Look through the NSF GRFP FAQ, with detailed answers here. Read over the official NSF GRFP website, especially their tips.

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