CFSA: Cultivating Exceptional Potential
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All 2016-2017 Fulbright and UK/Asia award applicants are invited to CFSA’s Application Bootcamp. CFSA will host two “bootcamp” workshops at the end of August for applicants to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Marshall Scholarship, Luce Scholars Program, Schwarzman Scholarship, and Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Rhodes and Mitchell applicants are restricted from receiving help on their drafts.…
In the summer of 2015, neuroscience and biology major Amber Barrow boarded a plane to Dalian, China. Her first time in China, Amber took a pledge to speak only Mandarin Chinese for the summer program. Her journey to East Asia started two years earlier when she first heard about the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in…
In February, Lily Fein traveled to New York City as a finalist to the Luce Scholars Program. She mingled with fellow finalists and members of the selection committee — prominent journalists, academics, artists, lawyers, and diplomats — at a cocktail party before the final interview. With majors in ceramics and history of art, Lily was interested in Japanese ceramic…
2016 graduate Kaitlyn Hobson will leave for a yearlong Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Thailand in a couple short months. Kait, a dual magazine and ETS major, worked closely with CFSA as she prepared her application. As Syracuse University seniors, graduate students, and alumni start drafting their essays for the 2016-2017 application cycle, CFSA asked Kait about…
Rick Cieri had already studied in Strasbourg and Madrid and mastered three foreign languages by his junior year at SU. Looking for a new challenge outside European politics, the dual international relations and modern foreign languages major picked up a pamphlet on the Boren Scholarship and applied. The Boren Scholarship, which funds up to a full year…
What We Do
CFSA helps Syracuse University undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni apply for national scholarships and fellowships. These external awards provide funding and recognition across a range of disciplines and interests.
You can read more about CFSA in this SU News story.
Institutional Endorsement
We require all Syracuse University students who are seeking institutional endorsement for the Marshall Scholarship and Rhodes Scholarship to register with CFSA by June 1 and to complete an “Intent to Apply” form by July 1, detailing their record on leadership, service, academic accomplishments, and their rationale for the application.
A campus committee will meet in July to review these forms and select the students who will be endorsed by the University. Students seeking CFSA’s support and assistance with applications to the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, the Schwarzman Scholars Program, the Luce Scholars Program, or the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program should also complete the form. The “Intent to Apply” Form will open in late May and close on July 1st.
Prestigious Fellowships Intent to Apply Form
Let us know if you intend to apply for a prestigious award (those listed under "Institutional Endorsement" above) by completing this form by July 1st.
Upcoming Events
To request disability accommodations for any of the CFSA-hosted events below, please email cfsa@syr.edu
National Recognitions
