Application Deadlines
Each of the fellowships supported through the Fries Center's Fellowships office requires some form of a campus-level application or nomination process before candidates progress on to the national or international level of the competition.
Expression of Interest Target Date
We always encourage students to start their fellowship applications early, several months ahead of the campus deadlines. If you're thinking of applying for a fellowship, the Office of Fellowships wants to know about it! This helps us support you and plan our campus process. If it's a little past this date and you still want to apply, just email fellowships@wesleyan.edu as soon as you can to let us know you're interested.
Campus Deadlines
The campus deadlines to apply for a fellowship (listed in the table below) are final. These are the deadlines to submit all required materials, usually through your selected program's online portal.
The number of candidates Wesleyan may nominate varies by fellowship program. Some programs allow only one nominee, while others encourage us to nominate all qualified candidates. When you submit your application for the campus deadline, it is reviewed by Fellowships staff and/or by a Wesleyan fellowships review committee. In some cases, these committees will also interview applicants and decide who will be nominated for the national competition based on the fellowship program's selection criteria. Nominees will usually work with Fellowships and/or faculty advisors to further revise their materials before the national deadline.
National Deadlines
National deadlines are set by the foundations, state agencies, and other organizations that run fellowship/scholarship competitions at the national and international level. Deadlines in italics below are approximations based on prior years. Those in regular print have been updated for the current year's application cycle. (Where a time zone is not stated, the deadline is in Eastern time, the local time at Wesleyan's campus.)
FELLOWSHIP |
Expression of interest target date |
CAMPUS DEADLINE |
NATIONAL DEADLINE |
Schwarzman China |
April 1, 2022 |
May 3, 2022 |
May 20, 2022 |
Schwarzman US |
June 1, 2022 |
Aug 23, 2022 |
Sept 20, 2022 |
Rhodes US |
June 1, 2022 |
Aug 30, 2022 |
Oct 5, 2022 |
Gates Cambridge |
June 1, 2022 |
Aug 30, 2022 |
mid October |
Marshall |
May 10, 2022 |
Aug 30, 2022 |
late Sept |
Mitchell |
May 10, 2022 |
Aug 30, 2022 |
Sept 30, 2022 |
Fulbright |
June 1, 2022 |
Sept 13, 2022, 5pm |
Oct 11, 2022 |
Knight Hennessy |
June 1, 2022 |
Sept 1, 2022 |
early Oct |
Keasbey |
June 1, 2024 |
mid-Sept (next competition 2024) |
mid-Nov (next competition 2024) |
Watson |
Sept 5, 2022 |
Oct 13, 2022, noon |
Nov 9, 2022 |
Churchill |
Sept 5, 2022 |
Oct 13, 2022, noon |
early Nov |
Critical Language |
N/A |
N/A |
November 15, 2022, 8pm ET |
St. Andrew’s |
Oct 20, 2022 |
Nov 15, 2022 |
mid Dec |
Gaither/Carnegie Jr. |
Nov 18, 2022 |
Dec 14, 2023, noon |
January 17, 2023 |
Goldwater |
Nov 18, 2022 (also the preapplication deadline) |
Dec 14, 2022, noon |
Jan 27, 2023, 5pm Central |
Truman |
Nov 18, 2022 |
Jan 4, 2023, 5pm |
early Feb |
Beinecke |
Dec 13, 2022 (due to winter break it is difficult to accomodate interest declared after this date) |
Jan 6, 2023, noon |
early Feb |
Udall |
Jan 17, 2023 |
Feb 9, 2023, 5pm |
early March |