Is fellowship folded into the admissions application?
No. Admissions is completely need-blind here. We keep our admissions and our financial aid processes completely separate. We have admissions deadlines in January, March, May, and we set our financial aid deadline for incoming students approximately three weeks after a student has been admitted. A student who applies for financial aid in May is just as eligible for fellowship funds as someone who applied in January. That’s a question we always get asked: “Am I going to jeopardize anything if I apply late?” And the answer is unequivocally no. We treat everyone the same, and we do our best here to help students avoid jumping through unnecessary hoops. Because we have more than 7,000 applicants for our 360 spots, we only want to ask those who are admitted to file a financial aid application. That’s why our deadline is three weeks after the admissions deadline.
