Fulbright Awards

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p><a href="https://us.fulbrightonline.org/documents/chronicle_1.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://us.fulbrightonline.org/documents/chronicle_1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This year’s Fulbright Awards have now been announced, with the Ivy League getting a fair share of them. The Fulbrights are awards for international study and the interest in applying for them varies among institutions and from one year to the next. They provide their winners with wonderful opportunities for personal growth. </p>

<p>For the 2007-2008 school year, Yale will send the largest number of its graduates abroad with Fulbright awards but Brown is far and away the most impressive in terms of the acceptance rate of its applicants. Nationwide, the University of Michigan tops the list of Fulbright winners with nearly 50% more than the second leading school, Yale. </p>

<p>In terms of the success of applicants in winning these scholarships, Brown is easily the ‘winner’ in the Ivies with 36% of its applicants receiving the award. </p>

<p>Princeton has a significant showing though, along with Harvard, its success rate is only about 1 in five this year. Here are the numbers.</p>

<p>% of Applicants Accepted </p>

<p>36%--Brown
29%--Cornell
29%--Dartmouth
25%--Yale
22%--Harvard
21%--Princeton
18%--Columbia
16%--U of Pennsylvania</p>

<p>Total # of Applicants</p>

<p>109--Yale
108--U. of Pennsylvania
96---Harvard
73---Cornell
71---Columbia
69---Brown
63---Princeton
35---Dartmouth</p>

<p>Total # of Awards </p>

<p>27--Yale
25--Brown
21--Cornell
21--Harvard
17--U. of Pennsylvania
13--Columbia
13--Princeton
10--Dartmouth</p>

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<p>Jesus. Don't scare me like that, I thought these were results for people who are applying now.</p>

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<p>... but perhaps the most impressive school for Fulbrights this year is tiny Pomona College in California - 25 awards this year. With only 1,500 students, its grants per capita is well above other schools, with 16.1 awards per 1,000 students, compared to Yale (5.1), Brown (4.2), and UMich (1.5).</p>

<p>Plus, Pomona's acceptance rate was 49% (25 accepted out of 51 applicants), higher than any ivy.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.pomona.edu/events/news/NewsItems/102207fulbrights.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.pomona.edu/events/news/NewsItems/102207fulbrights.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>