How to increase your chance for Fulbright scholarship 2019 – 2020

Fulbright Student Fellowships for 2019-2020 offers successful candidates round-trip transportation to the United States, as well as tuition fees, and living expenses for full-time graduate study. Through is program, you will pursue either master or doctoral degree.

This is one of the famous scholarship programs that you should not miss. If you are willing to apply for this opportunity, you should have preparations beforehand, which simply means that you are increasing the chance of winning the scholarship. You never know whether or not you can make it if you do not give it a try. There are a few tips from Scholarship for Khmer team, which you can take into consideration if you are willing to go for this chance.

• Check the eligibility

First and foremost, you should be clear whether or not you meet the minimum requirements of the scholarship. When you are applying for the scholarship, it is a must to make sure that you are eligible to apply, or else you will be disqualified since the first stage. Those requirements include your nationality, residential information, academic background, English proficiency, and the like.

• Prepare your English proficiency test

Fulbright program requires a minimum score of 570 on TOEFL or TOEFL ITP, or 230 on computer-based TOEFL, or 88 on internet based TOEFL, or 7.0 on IELTS. If you do not have one of these, you shall prepare yourself for the test before the approaching of deadline. No matter how complete your application is, you will not be considered for scholarship as well if you are not able to submit your English proficiency test score with the required score. So, make yourself ready for it!

• Make your documents ready

In addition to the language proficiency score, you will be asked to submit other required supporting documents. Therefore, you should get them done as early as you can to ensure that you can provide all the documents on time. In order to know the detail of this, you may refer to the program’s website.

• Start your application early

You shall start your application as early as you can in order to make sure that your application arrives before the deadline of the scholarship as your application will not be considered after the deadline. You are recommended to have clear timeline, so that you can have enough time to write the application, to proofread, and to edit for a few times. Do not wait until the last minute to apply!

Good luck for your application!

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Article, Ty Kanha