Deadline: |
October 9 2019.
Location: |
Stanford, USA.
(Fully Funded)
Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program
Every year, up to 100 high-achieving students from around the world receives full funding to pursue any graduate degree at Stanford with Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program.
We believe Knight-Hennessy Scholars will attract the most promising future leaders from all disciplines and geographies to Stanford University. Here, you will engage in a transformative experience comprising multidisciplinary education, leadership development, and achieving a global perspective.
We encourage applications to Knight-Hennessy Scholars from citizens of all countries. That’s natural since we expect Knight-Hennessy Scholars to have a global impact. We expect that over time about one-third of our scholars will be from the U.S., and about two thirds will be from countries outside the U.S. Those numbers will fluctuate from year to year, since our goal is to admit the world’s very best students, regardless of location.
Opportunity Focus Areas:
- Law
- Medicine
- Business
- arts
- education
- humanities & sciences
- social sciences
English.
ALL WORLD COUNTRIES.
3 years.
- you must be applying to enroll in any full-time graduate degree program at Stanford or you are planning on pursuing one of Stanford’s many joint- and dual- graduate degree options.
- you must hold the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree from a college or university of recognized standing.
- you are applying during your final year of study for your first/bachelor’s degree or within five years of earning your first/bachelor’s degree.
- you must meet the requirements of the Stanford graduate program(s) that you wish to pursue.
- You must complete not only your Knight-Hennessy Scholars application, but also the entire application process for your graduate degree program, including any standardized test that your graduate degree program requires (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, etc.) and, if needed, an English proficiency test (TOEFL; or, for MBA program only, IELTS).
- you must be a person who can out-think, out-work, and out-care others.
- you must be an independent thinker, display purposeful leadership, and have a civic orientation.
- You must be fluent in English — listening, reading, speaking, and writing — to study at Stanford. All Stanford graduate degree programs accept the TOEFL; the MBA Program also accepts the IELTS and PTE. The minimum TOEFL score for most graduate programs at Stanford is 100iBT or 600PBT; some departments only accept scores obtained within the last 18 months.
Note: Applicants for Honors Cooperative Program or the Master of Liberal Arts are not eligible.
(Fully Funded)
- tuition and associated fees.
- living expenses.
- academic expenses.
- an economy-class ticket for one annual trip to and from Stanford.
Note:
- If the degree program exceeds three years, then the Stanford home department(s) will fund the remainder of your education to the extent consistent with its standard funding commitment for that program.
- If you engage in optional research projects during the summer, the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program can provide summer funding.
- Knight-Hennessy Scholars pursuing positive impact through social entrepreneurship may be eligible to apply for seed funding.
First Step: Create an account here.
Second Step: Specify your graduation date and the institute that you graduated from.
Third Step: Complete and submit the online application for admission (including personal and academic information, etc.).
The documents you must submit in order to fill the application are:
- one-page resume.
- transcripts of your academic performance at the undergraduate level and beyond, for each institution you attended for an academic year or longer (This can be an unofficial or self-reported transcript ).
- standardized tests if required.
- Two recommendation letters. Know more about it here.
- Two Essays (You may submit a maximum total of 1000 words for both essays combined)
- Connect the dots. How have the influences in your life shaped you?
- How will you pursue your life’s calling? How will your Stanford education and your Knight-Hennessy Scholars experience to support this?
- Two short answer responses:
– eight improbable facts about you.
– three goals/objectives that you are working toward right now (being admitted to Stanford and/or being selected as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar can’t count as one of those goals).
- You must record a video, no longer than two minutes. In this video you should be trying to teach something to your cohort of fellow Knight-Hennessy Scholars.
Note: You still need to apply separately to the specific Stanford graduate degree program that you want to pursue for autumn 2020. This is essential!
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This Scholarship Published by:
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