Deadlines for Institutional Endorsement
Students interested in applying for a fellowship that requires an institutional endorsement must meet the initial Bowdoin deadline. For some fellowships, the Student Fellowships Committee conducts a paper review of the initial application materials, while for other fellowships the Committee interviews all or some of the applicants. In some instances, all candidates go forward and compete at the national level (e.g., Fulbright) and for other fellowships the Committee is allowed to endorse only a specified number of applicants who can then compete at the national level.
The below tables gives you an overview of the multi-phased deadlines for national fellowships requiring an institutional endorsement. Interested students are encouraged to click on the fellowship names listed below to find out more about each application process.
Please see below for graduate school fellowships that have preliminary "intent to submit" requirements:
| Fellowship | Preliminary Application (noon) |
Preliminary Interview |
Initial Bowdoin Deadline (noon) |
Target for Bowdoin Interview | Final Bowdoin Deadline (noon) |
| Knight-Hennessy Scholarship | 4/8/24 | 4/29 - 5/3/24 | 8/9/24 | N/A | Official: 10/9/24 at 1pm PST |
| Schwarzman Scholarship | 4/8/24 | 4/29 - 5/3/24 | 8/9/24 | N/A | Official: 9/12/24 at 3pm EST |
| Marshall Scholarship | 4/8/24 | 4/29 - 5/3/24 | 8/29/24 | 9/5/24 or 9/6/24 | 9/23/24 |
| Rhodes Scholarship | 4/8/24 | 4/29 - 5/3/24 | 8/29/24 | 9/5/24 or 9/6/24 | Official: 10/2/24 at 11:59pm EST |
| Churchill Scholarship | 4/8/24 | 4/29 - 5/3/24 | 9/20/24 | 9/25-9/27/24 | 10/28/24 |
| Keasbey Scholarship | 4/8/24 | 4/29 - 5/3/24 | 10/3/24 | 10/11/24 | 11/11/24 |
Fellowship opportunities that do not have preliminary applications:
| Fellowship | Initial Bowdoin Deadline (noon) |
Tentative Bowdoin Interview | Final Bowdoin Deadline (noon) |
| Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) | 8/15/24 intent 8/29/24 initial | 8/26 alum sign up 8/27-8/28 all sign up 9/5-9/25 interview | 9/29/24 |
| Fulbright Study/Research | 8/15/24 intent 8/29/24 initial | 8/26 alum sign up 8/27-8/28 all sign up 9/5-9/25 interview | 9/29/24 |
| Watson Fellowship | 9/6/24 | 9/19-9/20/24 | 11/4/24 |
| St. Andrew's Scholarship | 11/4/24 | 11/8/24 | 12/10/24 |
| Gaither Junior Fellows Program | 11/15/24 | 11/22/24 | 1/10/25 |
| Truman Scholarship | 11/11/24 | 11/18-11/20/24 | 1/30/25 |
| Goldwater Scholarship | 11/7/24 | N/A | 1/29/25 |
| Udall Scholarship | 1/24/25 | N/A | 3/3/25 |
| Beinecke Scholarship | 2/14/25 | 2/21/25 | 3/25/25 |