<p>Shouldn’t you be applying to the Fulbright program and graduate schools at the same time? If you get the Fulbright, defer your graduate program for a year. Otherwise, you go ahead to grad school. :P</p>
<p>Something that is obviously central to every successful Fulbright application is the proposal. It should be sound and creative but reasonable, and telling you what you should propose to do (and how you can make it happen should you receive funding) is obviously something we can’t do. Since you want it so bad, I guess that means you know exactly what you plan to do with your year already.</p>