GRE score for fellowships

Graduate School
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<p>I'm looking at scholarships and fellowships and I am very sure that I can get above a 1400 on my GRE this next week (780-800 Q and 600-620V). Verbal, if I am not very unlucky, will get 600 minimum with as high as 700. Anyone know if 1400+ is a good enough GRE for fellowships to consider me?</p>

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<p>Which fellowships? SMART is only about as hard to get as gaining admission to a top 10 school (probably even easier because it has strings attached), but you must be a God (or Goddess) to get Hertz.</p>

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<p>I’m going to apply to several</p>

<p>Luce Scholarship
Fulbright
AT & T Fellowship
NDSEG
NSF
GEM</p>

<p>etc</p>

<p>I’m not stellar, ECE + applied math major from Rice with </p>

<p>3.51/4.0 overall
3.48 or 3.59 / 4.0 (ECE + applied math, depends on how it is measured)</p>

<p>two strong recs, one from a TED talk professor and one from a guy cited as top 10 papers in the past decade. 2 other recs that I’m scrounging around for with at least a grade of OK.</p>

<p>I have a 3.7 GPA the past two years despite some ridiculous extraneous circumstances, but I don’t want to rely on those in any applications because excuses always look bad, especially since I’m hispanic–as in, people attribute my success to being hispanic and getting in the easy way.</p>

<p>So, in short, is my GRE sufficient to be considered for those programs?</p>

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<p>I didn’t apply to any of those but NSF, so I can really only speak for that one. Have you done any mentoring? NSF puts a large amount of emphasis on that - especially if it’s with underrepresented groups. Otherwise, you stand a good chance since they’re upping the number of fellowships to a ridiculous amount (like 2000) this year.</p>

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<p>Do you guys have any idea about scholarships and fellowships in which international students are elegible? I’ve been searching in the internet, but i have found pretty much nothing.</p>

<p>Sephiroth226,</p>

<p>Do all fellowships you mention have U.S. citizen requirement?</p>

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<p>I don’t know. I haven’t checked any of them since I am a US citizen. I would assume NDSEG, NSF, GEM and Luce do.</p>