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Now in my third year of graduate school, I still apply to some prestigious fellowships. Why not? The only way to guarantee you won’t be chosen is to not submit an application.
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So, I switched my focus to less well-known fellowships, looking broadly and keeping an open mind. I asked friends, looked at faculty members’ CVs, and searched Twitter. A conversation with an engineering student friend introduced me to a fellowship that I never would have heard of in my biology circles.