Inbound Exchange Blogging and Media Scholarship
The Inbound Exchange Blogging and Media Scholarship provides two selected students who are interested in writing blogs about their experiences while living and studying at GW with $1,100 scholarships (one scholarship per student). The students who are awarded the Inbound Exchange Blogging and Media Scholarship will be expected to post entries on our website at least four different times during the term discussing their experiences living in U.S. culture. Students will also participate in a 10 week long (5 weeks for each student) Instagram takeover where the student will post 3 pictures each week with daily Instagram stories representing their experience living in D.C and life at GW. Prospective exchange students who visit the Office for Study Abroad website will be able to follow the blog and Instagram account to learn more about what it is like to be immersed in the GW and U.S. culture.
Click here to view the current blog postings from students studying at GW and to view our current Instagram account follow gwexchange.
Eligibility
Students must meet the following requirements in order to be eligible for the scholarship:
- Be admitted to GW through the Office for Study Abroad as an undergraduate inbound exchange student for the Spring 2020 semester.
- This scholarship is not meant for GWU degree seeking students studying abroad.
Application Requirements
All application material must be submitted online. Paper and/or email submissions will not be accepted.
Required for All Inbound Blogging Scholarship Applicants:
1. 250 to 500-word typed essays answering
all of the following questions:
a. Describe your favorite place to go in your hometown and why it is your favorite place. Why do you think other students should visit your favorite place?
b. Describe a cultural mistake you have made, how you fixed the mistake, and what you learned by making that mistake.
c. Write up of your first introductory blog post to include your expectations for your start at GW.
2. Pitch us a short (60 second) video by sending a
'Direct Message or DM to our gwexchange Instagram account' of what you would hypothetically post on your daily Instagram stories that would interest students in your experience at GW and in D.C.
Deadline
- Application Open for Spring 2020: Friday, January 31, 2020
- Application Deadline for Spring 2020: Sunday, February 9, 2020
Announcement of Acceptance/Denials
- Spring 2020: Friday, February 14, 2020
*Students who are studying at GW for the academic year must apply for the scholarship for each semester they are studying at GW. Academic year students who are accepted as bloggers for the fall, are not guaranteed to be selected for the spring.*
