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NSF GRFP Personal Statement : Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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Note that the Broader Impacts sections can be woven through the rest of the experiences as well as highlighted in separate sections. Sizes of sections are approximate. Your personal statement (technically, the “Personal, Relevant Background, and Future Goals Statement”) is part of an application that should convince the selection committee to award you the Fellowship. The GRFP website says, “NSF Fellows are expected to become globally engaged knowledge experts and leaders who can contribute significantly to research, education, and innovations in science and engineering. The purpose of this statement is to demonstrate your potential to satisfy this requirement.” The personal statement is the only part of the application where you get to lay out the experiences you’ve had, the goals you intend to pursue, and how those experiences and goals qualify you for the Fellowship. Your entire application will be “reviewed online by virtual panels of disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientists a

Criteria for Success You are eligible for the Fellowship ( i.e. you are not proposing to pursue an MD-PhD; you are not proposing research about a particular disease or clinical practice). Your personal statement convinces a panel of academics that you are qualified to receive the Fellowship, especially with respect to the Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact criteria. You show only those skills and experiences that demonstrate how you fit those criteria. The skills and experiences that you show are concrete and quantitative. Your personal statement meets the formatting and page limit criteria

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