1.–4. Name
Enter your complete and legal name.

5.–10. Current Address
11.–16. Permanent Address
Enter your permanent address. If it is the same as your current address, you may click “copy”.

17. Work Phone Number
If you are employed, enter your work phone number

18. Email Address

19. Date of Birth

20. U.S. Citizen
Indicate if you are a U.S. citizen. Only U.S. citizens may apply for the NSEP Boren Fellowship.

21.–25. Naturalized U.S. Citizens
If you are a naturalized U.S. citizen, you must complete this section.

26.–27. Congressional Voting State and District
Indicate the state and the number of your congressional voting district. This information can be found at www.house.gov.

28.–29. Sex and Race/Ethnic Origin
Indicate your sex and race/ethnic origin. These questions are optional.

30. Career Plan
Select your career plan. You should be more specific in the essay.

31. Program Abstract
Enter a program abstract of no more than 150 words. You will be able to elaborate further in the essay questions later in the application.

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1. Country
Select your primary country of study.

2.–3. If you will be studying in more than one country, choose yes and select the appropriate countries.

4. Language
Select your primary language of study.

5. Academic Discipline
Select the discipline that is the closest to your specific academic field.

6. Degree Objective
Select the degree you will be seeking while you are on the Boren Fellowship.

7. Current Level of Study
Select the degree that you are currently pursuing.

8. Program Composition
Indicate if you are applying for a Fellowship to support you overseas, domestically, or both. For more information, please consult Foreign and/or domestic study.

9. Overseas Affiliation
Enter the name of an institution or person with whom you will be affiliated while overseas. A letter is also required.

10.–11. Identify an advisor who is familiar with your work and identify someone from your current institution.

12. The National Bureau of Asian Research 'Bridge Award'
We are developing a new program with the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) that will allow up to 10 Boren Fellows to work at NBR immediately following their return from the Boren Fellowship overseas. More information is available on the NBR website here.
To be considered, answer "yes" and submit the additional one page essay.

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Complete the steps below for the first record then click the “add” button for each additional record, and go through the steps again.

1. Select the institutions you attended,
starting with the most recent.

2.–4. Indicate the date you began attending
the institution. For your current institution, indicate your expected date of completion. For all past institutions, enter the date of completion.

5.–6. Degree and Major
Select the degree and major you were seeking while at that particular institution.

7.–8. GPA
Enter your GPA and the maximum GPA at that particular institution. If your institution did not have GPA's enter 0 for each record.

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List up to three relevant positions, starting with the most recent. Complete the steps below for the first record then click the “add” button for each additional record, and go through the steps again.

1.–3. Enter the requested information for employer, location, and position.

4.–5. Enter your approximate start and end date.

6. Brief Description of Duties

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List up to three relevant activities, starting with the most recent. Complete the steps below for the first record then click the “add” button for each additional record, and go through the steps again.

1.–2. Enter the requested information for activity and location.

3.–4. Enter your approximate start and end date.

5. Enter any relevant comments.

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Type of Experience Abroad
In most cases, an organized study abroad program would fall under months studied, a vacation would fall under months traveled, and an extended stay, such as a military posting, would fall under months lived. Therefore, a month of travel following a month-long study program would NOT total two months lived.

Extensive Experience Abroad
If you have lived, traveled, or studied in more than three countries, please list the countries in which you have spent the most time, and those that may be relevant to your study abroad proposal. You are encouraged to give more in-depth information about the nature of your time spent in these or other countries in your essay question later in the application.

Complete the steps below for the first record then click the “add” button for each additional record, and go through the steps again. Enter up to three countries.

1.-4. Select the country and the amount of experience in that particular country.

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1.–5. Enter the names and dates of up to five relevant honors or awards.

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1. List up to five other fellowships you have applied for this year.
Enter the first record then click the “add” button. For each additional record enter the information then click the “add” button.

2. How did you learn about the Boren Fellowship
Select from the drop-down menu.

3-5 Previous Boren awards
Indicate if you have previously won a Boren Scholarship or Fellowship. If you have, enter the year and country.

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1. Enter up to five government agencies and offices where you would like to work.
Enter the first record then click the “add” button. For each additional record enter the agency or office, then click on add.

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1. Graduate Degree Program
Indicate the graduate degree program you are pursing, or that you plan on pursing when you enter graduate school.

2. If you are currently in graduate school, select the institution.

3. If you are not enrolled in graduate school yet, check the boxes of the institutions to which you have applied.

4. Level of Study
Indicate your level of study for your Boren Fellowship program.

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1. Enter the title of proposed program of study or research topic.

2. Essays
The application includes three required essays. If you are interested in being considered for the National Bureau of Asian Research Bridge Award, a fourth essay is required.

3. Essays one and two should be no longer than the equivalent of two pages each, using a 12 point font.

4. Essays three and four should be no more than the equivalent of one page each, using a 12 point font.

5. If you would like to be considered for the Bridge Award please select "yes."

6. It is recommended that you compose and save your Statements of Purpose in a word processing program. Cut and paste the statements into the online application.

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1.–2. Enter your program start and program end date of your Boren-funded period of study.
This should include domestic and overseas study.

3.–4. Enter the overseas start date and overseas end date of your Boren-funded period of study.
The overseas start and end date must be the same as, or within, the total program start and end dates.

5.–6. Enter the total duration of your domestic and overseas NSEP-funded study.

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1. Visit Prepare a budget for specific information about developing a budget.

2. Enter the cost and description of each line item.
If you do not need a particular cost covered, enter zero. If you know another award will be covering a particular cost, enter zero.

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1. Visit Prepare a budget for specific information about developing a budget.

2. Enter the costs and descriptions of classes you are proposing that Fellowship fund.
If you do not need a particular cost covered, enter zero.

Click on "Save & Continue" to proceed to submit application.