The Paul Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Application Essay Tips [2019 - 2020]

Paul Soros was often overshadowed by his younger brother, financial wizard George Soros, but he was a millionaire in his own right. In contrast to George Soros’s success in the financial industry, Paul Soros made his mark on the world by innovating in the shipping industry, filing patents, winning several engineering awards, and innovating in everything from loading methods to shipping routes. Complementing Paul’s background, his wife Daisy Soros studied interior design and has been a lifelong supporter of the arts. Paul and Daisy Soros both immigrated from Hungary in the wake of World War II, so it is only fitting that the fellowship for graduate education that they founded supports young, first-generation Americans. The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships provide half of the annual tuition (up to $20,000) plus a stipend of up to $25,000 to each of 30 Fellows each year. In addition to age and immigration status requirements, the criteria for the Soros Fellowship are threefold: 1. Creativity and initiative 2. Proven drive and sustained effort 3. A demonstrated commitment to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Some examples of how this year’s Fellows exemplified these values include developing a product to keep musical instruments clean, founding a science education outreach program for underserved populations, publishing 10 mathematics research papers, and analyzing the human genome for genetic factors in cardiovascular disease. The Fellowship aims to support students whose graduate study will propel them to even greater contributions to society. The PD Soros Fellowship application allows uploading of a resume, 2 essays, and optional exhibits – copies of your artwork or articles written about your work, for example. In addition, the application requires 3 letters of recommendation, with the option to submit up to 5 recommendations. The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans is open now and due by November 1, 2019. Applicants may apply for the Fellowship as they work on their graduate school applications; there is no need to wait until you are accepted for graduate study. Here are the PD Soros Fellowship application essay questions, with my guidance in blue. PD Soros Fellowship application essay tips PD Soros Fellowship essay #1 Tell us about your experiences as a New American. Whether as an immigrant yourself, or as a child of immigrants, how have your experiences as a New American informed and shaped who you are and your accomplishments? Feel free to discuss how individual people (such as family or teachers), institutions, aspects of law, culture, society or American governance made an impact on your life as an immigrant or child of immigrants. The program is especially interested in understanding the context of your personal, professional, and academic accomplishments. (Maximum length: 1000 words) In guidance from the Fellowship committee, applicants are advised to use this space to share stories that provide a window into their world as a new American, and many Fellows find that talking with their parents about their childhood challenges and triumphs helped them illuminate the most salient lessons and experiences for this essay. As immigrants and the children of immigrants, what opportunities and rights did you gain in the U.S. that you would not have enjoyed in your parents’ native country? How did that insight influence you? Alternatively, were you challenged by those differences and how did that challenge influence your direction, perspective, and actions? Essays that share the depth of your feelings and not just your actions will resonate most intensely with the Fellowship committee. PD Soros Fellowship essay #2 Tell us about your current and near-term career-related activities and goals, as well as why you decided to pursue the specific graduate program(s) and school(s) that you have. How do you see your current work and study informing your early career goals? If you have not been accepted into a program yet, please tell us about why you selected the programs to which you are applying. (Maximum length: 1000 words) This essay will be much less personal and possibly unrelated to your new American experience as you discuss your academic interests and ambitions. The thinking that you do for this essay will be helpful in writing your statement of purpose or goals essay for the master’s programs and vice versa. Often, it helps for applicants to write about the questions for which they are seeking answers, the tasks they would like to do well, and the missions they would like to contribute to. This discussion then provides an easy segue into how graduate study will prepare them for those roles. With 1000 words, you will also have plenty of room to add details about how you have pursued those answers thus far, providing an additional opportunity to demonstrate that you are a good fit with the PD Soros Fellowship’s search for creative, driven, persistent, and committed new Americans. The PD Soros Fellowship also offers an Optional Exhibits section, allowing you to upload additional material for further insight into your background or potential – for example, links to videos or performances, pieces from your portfolio, or published or submitted written works.  While there is space to upload up to 5 optional Exhibits, these are considered supplementary to the application, and the admissions committee is not required to review all of them. Therefore, place the most compelling evidence of your talent and fit with the Fellowship first to capture their interest and, hopefully, encourage them to continue perusing that opus. For expert guidance on your Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans application, check out  Accepted’s Application Packages, which include advising, editing, interview coaching, and a resume edit for the PD Soros Fellowship application. ***Disclaimer: Information is subject to change. Please check with individual programs to verify the essay questions, instructions and deadlines.*** By Jennifer Bloom, admissions consultant at Accepted for 20 years and Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW). She is an expert at guiding you to produce application materials that truly differentiate you from the rest of the driven applicant pool. If you would like help with your application, Jennifer can suggest a number of options that work with any budget. Want Jennifer to help you get accepted? Click here to get in touch! Related Resources: †¢ Paul Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans: Funding, Community for Immigrants, a podcast interview †¢ Three Community-Based Scholarships That Will Change How You Search for Scholarships †¢ How to Pay for Graduate School

2018 Best Brightest Justin Harris, Syracuse University (Whitman)

2018 Best Brightest: Justin Harris, Syracuse University (Whitman) by: Jeff Schmitt on April 01, 2018 | 0 Comments Comments 488 Views April 1, 2018Justin HarrisSyracuse University, Martin J. Whitman School of ManagementI am an outgoing, fun and expressive person who is quite the people person.Fun fact about yourself: I have a fraternal twin brother.Hometown: Scarsdale, New YorkHigh School: Scarsdale High SchoolMajor: Finance and Real Estate Double MajorFavorite Business Course: My favorite business course was EEE 457 because it helped me to develop my business start-up idea even further.Extracurricular Activities, Community Work and Leadership Roles During College: Currently I am a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. As for community work, I have spent time organizing food drives for the Food Bank of Central New York, donating over 88 pounds of canned goods last Thanksgiving. Lastly, I made Dean’s List in the Fall of 2016.Where have you interned during your college career? Going into my junior year, I interned at First Development Corporation in Long Island, NY, where I learned the ins-and-outs of commercial real estate development, construction, and leasing. Last summer, I interned at Keystone Equities in Manhattan, NY. There, I was an Acquisitions Intern and I helped source, underwrite, value, and purchase attractive real estate deals spanning from New York to California.Where will you be working after graduation? After graduation, I am pursuing a business idea of mine and hope to scale it into a successful venture that is both profitable and also gives tremendous value to our end customer.Who is your favorite professor? Professor Petosa because he helped me change the way I learn and teach myself in order to achieve my goals. Professor Petosa has seen me grow since I first transferred into Whitman, and has been a resource to me for almost four years for any advice that I have needed! I also really enjoyed that he challenges us students to exit our comfort zone in order to find out what we want to do with our business education in our careers.What is the biggest lesson you gained from studying business? The biggest lesson that I learned is that you truly make your own luck. You have to take all of the skills you learn from each class. Whether those skills come from accounting, finance, marketing, real estate, business law, or entrepreneurship each student has to grow their knowledge with an aspect of each subject taught in a business school. More simply, your knowledge about business does not just come from one class, but rather it is a culmination of a wide range of topics that one has to take it in order to be a successful business student.What advice would you give to a student looking to major in a business-related field? I would advise a student looking to major in a business-related field to first take a class in every general career of business. Next, they should find what peaks their interest the most. For me, I was ex tremely interested in investment banking until I took a real estate class, and it peaked my interest so much that I decided to major in both Finance and Real Estate. In the end, each student should see what they like the most and then try to get an internship in that field to truly solidify their liking to that particular industry.â€Å"If I didn’t major in business, I would be majoring in or studying†¦French. I went abroad my first semester freshman year to Strasbourg, France. I have been taking French since 7th grade and when I got back from my travels, I unfortunately started to lose my ability to speak it well as I stopped practicing. I would have loved to continue my studies and travel to all the French-speaking countries in the world. But who knows, maybe one day I could use my French skills to do business in one of these countries!What has surprised you most about majoring in business? What surprised me the most was how much fun I had finding myself and figuring out what I want to do with my life and my knowledge about business. I found that it is extremely doable, yet daunting and a lot of hard work, to start your own business and work for yourself. Four years ago, I would not have imagined that I would be starting my own company, let alone along with three of my best friends! Overall, it was surprising to me that over four years of learning about business you really do hone in on what you would enjoy doing for many years after you graduate.Who most influenced your decision to pursue business in college? My older sister, Sarah, influenced my decision to pursue business in college the most. She graduated from Syracuse in 2014 and she majored in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. As a senior in High School on my way into Syracuse, I loved hearing her talk about her capstone idea and had no idea that four years later that I’d be placing 3rd out of 60 teams competing! I remember her telling me that being in Whitman was fun (and a lot of wo rk), but there were so many fields of study that you could learn about and I think that is what truly inspired me to pursue business at Syracuse.Which academic, extracurricular or personal achievement are you most proud of? I am most proud of my capstone team and I for winning 3rd place out of 60 teams in a business plan competition. We created an original idea and put together a business plan that details every vital part of the business in order for it to succeed. I am proud of this achievement because post-graduation, the team and I are pursuing the idea in real life and we hope that it impacts many people in an extremely beneficial way.If you were a dean for a day, what one thing would you change about the business school?   If I were dean for a day, I would make some additions to the Finance Department. Many of my peers, including myself, would have liked to take a course on personal finance post-graduation. A course like this should include how to file taxes, plan for retire ment, and general day-to-day financial know-how’s. A course like this would be very helpful to business students who are going into the business world and need to know how to manage their finances in an educated way.Which classmate do you most admire? I admire my classmate, Sophia Cappelli, the most because we have been in pretty much every class in school since 6th grade. We took similar classes all throughout high school and both ended up at Syracuse and both in the business school! We have been friends for nearly 12 years and it has been amazing to see both of us grow and explore various business careers. She is studying accounting and helped our capstone team win 3rd place out of 60 teams overall!Who would you most want to thank for your success? I would like to thank my parents for supporting my education at Syracuse University and giving me all of the resources and freedom to study what I actually enjoyed. Their amazing support these past four years have made me who I a m today and I am very grateful for my mom and dad.What would your theme song be? â€Å"Life Changes† by Thomas Rhett because it is a country song about how quickly your life can change for the better and you never know what is going to happen. It also is a song about going with the flow and letting everything play out after you’ve done your hard work, and I think that is something that I tend to do and not stress over the little things in life.What are the top two items on your bucket list? To go skydiving, and to step foot in every country on Earth!Favorite book: My favorite book would have to be The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell because it shows the reader how when something like an idea passes a certain threshold, it spreads like wildfire.Favorite movie: Forrest GumpFavorite vacation spot: Bethany Beach, Delaware. My family has been going every summer for 21 years and it is a place that I hold very close to my heart!W hat are your hobbies?I am an avid fisherman, mainly going after sharks in the summer off of Long Island, New Jersey, and the shores of Delaware. In the winter, I love to go skiing any chance that I get!What made Justin such an invaluable addition to the Class of 2018?â€Å"Justin can easily be described as the Whitman student that almost wasn’t. He was originally enrolled in the College of Arts Sciences and spent his very first semester in Strasbourg before hitting the ground in Syracuse for his second semester. After his first year, he transferred into Whitman and has continued the path of taking calculated risks ever since. His junior year was spent focusing on finding an internship and career in the field of real estate and finance. However when his Capstone group presented a top-three business idea in the Fall, they decided to take it to market. Whitman is thrilled to see what Justin and his Capstone teammates accomplish and we hope that Justin never stops taking those risks.†Lindsay Quilty Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse UniversityDONT MISS: THE BEST BRIGHTEST BUSINESS MAJORS OF 2018 THE COMPLETE LIST Page 1 of 11