<p>When Stacy posted /two/ of her friends were hired by the Bookings Institution, I knew something was out of the ordinary. I was very correct. The number of college grads Brookings hires each year without a masters is 8-10. ..In other words, of all students from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc, vying for the few coveted posistions at Brookings, Smithies landed two. The odds are incalculable. </p>
<p>Another printout BJM8 ;)</p>
<p>Got it, thanks. The guidance counselors in my school are smiling from ear to ear when I give then info on Smith that's positive. They happen to love Smith too. ;) Even if my D was the first student from the school to attend.</p>
<p>Even if my D was the first student from the school to attend.]]</p>
<p>Yeah, you mentioned that. I'm tying to make sure she is only the 1st many more to follow. I get paid 50 bucks and two Smith College window stickers for every Stride scholar I recruit.</p>
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I get paid 50 bucks and two Smith College window stickers for every Stride scholar I recruit.
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Can I get some of that action...tuition just went up! ;)</p>
<p>Whereas I get billed a substantial amount for the STRIDE student I recruited. I suppose it balances out.</p>
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The number of college grads Brookings hires each year without a masters is 8-10.
..In other words, of all students from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc, vying for the few coveted positions at Brookings, Smithies landed two.
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All kidding aside, that really is SPECTACULAR!! WOW!!</p>
<p>yep! I'm SUPER proud of them. I know that one (my former roommate!) was told she beat out 120 other applicants for her position. The other was hired faster, but had to wait a little longer to hear where exactly she'd be working, because the senior economists had to battle it out over which one got her as his research assistant. </p>
<p>the cream of the crop at smith can compete with students from absolutely anywhere. we just got an email that smith once again beat its fulbright record and has FIFTEEN winners so far this year (including a different former roommate of mine! i attribute much of my academic success to the luck of living with some amazing students), with another few alternates/still waiting to hear.</p>
<p>Stacy...Geez, can my D room with you?? ;)</p>
<p>Can I get some of that action...tuition just went up! ]]</p>
<p>So did the Stride. Perfect timing. It is now, class of 2010, 5000.00 vs. 2500.00</p>
<p>Stacy...Geez, can my D room with you?? ]]</p>
<p>Yeah, no kidding. I'm making little Stacy dolls to carry around for luck. They'll be coming to your local college bookstore soon. :)</p>
<p>wow--i hadn't thought about it like maybe the roommates did so well because of ME ;) that could be a selling point for future roommates, lol. the 3rd of my former roommates, not to leave anyone out, will be working as an actuarial trainee for a large insurance company starting this summer. she is 22 years old and has business cards and a 401(k)...pretty fantastic! best of all, since she'd worked there last summer, she got offered the job back in OCTOBER. </p>
<p>in other news, i wish kahn & stride stipends had gone up while I could have taken advantage of them! but smith has some wonderful grants for alums to use in grad school (who knew!?) and so financially i'm actually pretty thrilled with them at the minute.</p>
<p>"we just got an email that smith once again beat its fulbright record and has FIFTEEN winners so far this year"</p>
<p>FIFTEEN? I think that would be the second year in a row that Smith has an all-time record among the LACs, and likely (for the second year in a row) the largest number among undergraduates of any college or university in the country, and by far the largest number of women.</p>
<p>Know how many were research Fulbrights?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smith.edu/fellowships/successes.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.smith.edu/fellowships/successes.html</a>
this only lists 14--but this is from the mass email from the fellowships director:</p>
<p>"Smith has again beaten its own Fulbright record. We have a stunning 15 Fulbrights this year. To be at Smith is a truly amazing opportunity to have probably the highest chance in the country to win a Fulbright. But you have to apply! And there are other fellowships you can apply to as well. See all the winners on my website under Successes and News, although this list is not yet complete. We have more winners to add to it."</p>
<p>According to this <a href="http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/</a> there are only about 800 'traditional' fulbrights awarded each year. From my limited experience (staying over jterm with a smith alum friend who's currently on a fulbright, and hanging out with other fulbrighters while there), most of them are grad students. So to have nearly 2% of the fulbrights this year coming from one place, which doesn't really have grad students applying (although Smith will help you apply if you're an alum, and I've been thinking about doing it after grad school), is pretty amazing. It's also cool that about 2.5% of the class of '06 will be doing a Fulbright next year!</p>
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"Smith has again beaten its own Fulbright record. We have a stunning 15 Fulbrights this year. To be at Smith is a truly amazing opportunity to have probably the highest chance in the country to win a Fulbright. But you have to apply! And there are other fellowships you can apply to as well. See all the winners on my website under Successes and News, although this list is not yet complete. We have more winners to add to it."</p>
<p>According to this <a href="http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/</a> there are only about 800 'traditional' fulbrights awarded each year. From my limited experience (staying over jterm with a smith alum friend who's currently on a fulbright, and hanging out with other fulbrighters while there), most of them are grad students. So to have nearly 2% of the fulbrights this year coming from one place, which doesn't really have grad students applying (although Smith will help you apply if you're an alum, and I've been thinking about doing it after grad school), is pretty amazing. It's also cool that about 2.5% of the class of '06 will be doing a Fulbright next year!
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With all due respect, while it is wonderful to celebrate the great performance of Smith, one might want to do a modicum of research. </p>
<p>You are talking about DIFFERENT programs. The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program that sends 800 U.S. grantees abroad each year is reserved for faculty and professionals </p>
<p>This is the website you need to check: </p>
<p><a href="http://us.fulbrightonline.org/about.html%5B/url%5D">http://us.fulbrightonline.org/about.html</a></p>
<p>and for statistics</p>