The website was a little bit opaque in regarding the type of person they prefer to select, so I am posting here (I checked, and I do meet the prerequisites for an application). The reason I am leaning towards "no" is because my path has not had any particular emphasis on volunteer work, and this seems like a significant factor in who they select to receive the grant from what I've heard. I'm hoping to go into academia and do research on computational cognitive neuroscience, and it seems like it would be difficult to spin a narrative from this around me being someone who wants to help people and be a leader. I could probably make it work in an essay, but people who are devoting their lives to this seem like they'd have much better odds of receiving the grant if helping others is a key component in the application. This won't be helped by how I no longer have had time to do volunteer work.
People who are familiar with the Rhodes Scholarship: do you need to be a full-time leader in the community who wants to focus on philanthropy for a career in order to be selected, or can you be interested in a more diverse field (i.e., research) and still be taken seriously? Thank you in advance for all your responses!
Submitted December 05, 2021 at 01:41PM by gabetucker22 https://ift.tt/3DuMyuG
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