How A Student Won Harvard’s Most Prestigious Full Scholarship With A Living Stipend Of $35,000 Per Year

The Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship is the most distinguished full-ride fellowship at Harvard University, with it only being awarded to 15 people every single year this is truly a life-changing opportunity that allows you to study for any degree at any Harvard graduate school.

 This scholarship will not only pay for all your tuition and health insurance fees for up to 2 years, but it will also give you a $35,000 living stipend every single year, as a winner of the 2024 Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship.

In this article, I will walk you through the winning application that Mr. Jack used to get this award. Furthermore, you will discover lots of different educational materials and free resources.

Before we continue with the application process itself, let’s quickly go through the eligibility requirements of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship.

Eligibility Requirements

Frank Knox Fellowship will allow you to study any degree at any Harvard graduate school but is only available to those who are citizens of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

But if you are not in the eligible country, there are other alternatives for you, there are a bunch of other list Harvard scholarships you can apply for.

For the application you need to submit your resume, it will contain a 1,000-word personal statement, 250 words for background,2 letters of the wreck and then listing also your Awards and extracurricular activities as just a little bit of a supplementary part of the application.

So let’s start with the awards and extracurricular activities that are listed because it’s the easiest place to start.

According to Mr. Jack, he said I included 14 Awards and 22 extracurricular activities, I just went nuts and tried to include everything that I could about the Award.

          Awards and Extracurriculars

Some of those included first-class honors from his mechanical engineering degree, being the Curtain Innovation Award winner for teaching and learning, being the 2023 Mission Australia Young Change Maker of the Year, the 2023 Australia Day Young

Community Citizen of the Year, basically those are just a ton of volunteering Awards, but he also included things such as representing Australia at the World Ninja League and Ninja Warrior World Championships, He also added things like being in the top 5% for one of his business law units, which he received an award for some reason, so essentially anything he attempted to include, and what you’re simply trying to show the panel is that you’ve done a lot of activities.

in regards to the extracurricular activities, you can only include things that you’ve participated in over the last 2 years, so he put 22 things which is still a heap, this included being an executive panel judge for the 2024,  7 years young achiever Awards, co-founding elucidate education which is the non-for-profit that he runs, but also things such as being a head commentator for the Australian ninja games, completing the Bustleton Iron Man 70.3, also all the books that he co-authored he put himself down as a co-author for those books as the extracurriculars.

Again showing them everything that I’ve done over the last 2 years, showing them that you are someone who makes the most of every single day and is always striving to make the most of every single opportunity, and hopefully, that gives them faith that if you win a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship they can trust you with that award.

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THE PERSONAL STATEMENT

quickly to the personal statement Jack wrote Because, to be honest, this is the thing that matters the most by a mile, the reason that he won the Frank KNOX Memorial Fellowship isn’t about his resume or accomplishments, it’s mostly because of the personal statement that he wrote and the passion and the ambition that he was able to show through it.

Harvard Personal Statement

 the good news is that this is an extremely relatable structure that you can use when crafting your statement and you’re going to see why very quickly, jack structured his 1,000 words personal statement as follows, 250 words describing his background and life story,150 words on his professional achievements,100 words on his lifelong ambitions, 250 words on why the Harvard program is important to him, 150 words on how he plans to contribute to the Harvard campus, and then 100 words on the conclusion.

So without further time, let’s get to the personal statement and it reads from top to bottom.

In context, Jack applied for a master of education technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, so that’s what he was being considered for in this scholarship.

As you’ll see, the first three paragraphs are just the setting of jacks life story and, he tells a lot of personal aspects about himself, it read ‘’it’s nothing personal, but my Australian high school was not for me, I sat subserviently still for five days a week and found it impossible to pay attention to my teacher’s monotone recitals for more than 10 minutes at a time.

As a result, I taught myself at night through the online learning platform, Khan Academy.

Listening to the engaging voice of Sal Khah in his free education videos empowered me to thrive in school and inspired the work I do today supporting tens of thousands of young Australians’’.

Now on to the second paragraph a little bit about his high school upbringing and his poor experiences during High School, the second part is about education Equity “It’s nothing Australia seems to be ashamed of, but socioeconomic status is one of our strongest determinants of educational attainment.

In my first year of University, I mentored a class of year 10 students in a low socioeconomic school just 20 km outside of Perth, and I asked them ‘Who here believes they can go to university?’ out of 30 students, only two put their hands up.

so again talking about another problem in education it starts with it’s nothing an Australian school seems to care about, but High School failed my mental health.” He is kind of going through the paragraph explaining how the absence of social-emotional learning had a big impact on his mental health, and that it impacts others around Australia.

So the first 250 words are just context setting but now let’s quickly go into Jack’s professional background and professional achievements so far.

 It reads “It’s nothing our education policymakers seem to be doing anything about, but millions of Australian students are just like me and the low socioeconomic students I mentored. As a six-time co-author, a graduate school researcher, and the co-founder of one of Australia’s largest education non-for-profits, Elucidate Education, I have worked to support more than 100,000 high school students by giving them Equitable access to the textbooks, online content, and videos they need to succeed in school.

Additionally, as a life skills educator, I’ve published my non-fiction book called ‘Realizing Dreams’,

made countless Life Education films and taught thousands of students essential asocial-emotional skills through delivering School workshops however, this only scrapes the surface of my ambitions for giving millions of young Australians access to Equitable and holistic education opportunities.

So his professional experiences have just been covered very concisely in 150 words and now let’s move on to his lifelong Ambitions.

“my lifelong ambition is to develop two Nationwide EdTech initiatives that will significantly Advance Australia’s education equity and holistic education efforts.

1. my first EdTech initiative aims to expand elucidate education Australia-wide to provide us 750,000 years 10,11, and 12 students with free access to all the textbooks online content, educational videos, and assessment software they need to succeed in school.

2. my second EdTech initiative aims to build a Nationwide Life education curriculum that will be freely available on the elucidate education platform. To do this, I plan to collaborate with leading experts in social-emotional learning to create engaging videos and online content that will equip millions of young Australians with the knowledge they need to thrive beyond school.

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He Has Carefully Stated His Lifelong Ambitions In 100 Words, And Now We’ll Look At How
The Program Will Help Him Attain His Objectives.

The EDM. in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology (LDIT) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is undoubtedly the best program to empower him to achieve his ambitions.

To expand and elucidate education Australia-wide, “I want to ensure, that I am designing ethical education technologies that provide targeted support to marginalize Australian students from low socioeconomic, rural, remote, and Indigenous backgrounds, by pursuing my HGSC concentration in global, international, and comparative education.”

“I will learn from World leading Universal Design researcher Professor Jose black Orie and two of the founding fathers of EdTech Professor David Doan and Professor Christopher Dei with their Decades of experience pioneering world-leading education Technologies, I will gain a comprehensive understanding of Universal Design principles, inclusive learning models and user-centered design

strategies and how they can be translated into the design of impactful ethical education resources to elucidate education.”

” for developing My Life Education curriculum, I plan to learn from the World’s leading children’s educational media designer, Professor Joseph Blatt.

He has pioneered educational media shows such as Sesame Street and his units will provide me with a wealth of knowledge on how to create films that are grounded in design principles. Pairing this with internships and educational media production companies in Boston such as Edx and Khan Academy will be the perfect hands-on experience I need to grow my filmmaking skills and shape my life education curriculum to cater to Young Australians from all backgrounds.”

So that’s been heavily focused on the units that he hopes to take during his time at Harvard and the professors he wants to work with, let us now consider the opportunities that he hopes to have outside of the classroom.

” Beyond the classroom, I am eager to collaborate with world-leading researchers at the HGSE ‘making care common project’ to develop empirically grounded social-emotional resources for my life education curriculum.

Additionally, working from the Harvard Innovation Labs brings the exciting opportunity to build Partnerships with fellow EdTech non-for-profit Founders for instance, since our elucidate education platform already supports more than 59,000 International students each year, I hope to form enduring Partnerships with the HGSE students that will allow us to share our education Technologies and expand our impact to hundreds of thousands of additional students across the globe.”

That’s What He Hoped To Gain From The Degree Which Was Around 250 Words, And Now Let’s See How He Spends The Next 150 Words Talking About His Contribution To The Community.

” I plan to do this by continuously sharing my deep understanding of Australia’s education system, creating culturally inclusive environments for my fellow International students, joining student leadership positions, and forming enduring bilateral. Partnerships with my fellow HGSE EdTech entrepreneurs.

And now we easily have the hundred-word ending.

“ By expanding elucidate education in Australia wide.100,000 students from low socio-economic backgrounds will gain free access to all the textbooks, online content, and educational videos needed to succeed in school.

Additionally, by introducing Australia’s most comprehensive life education curriculum millions of young Australians will be equipped with the critical social-emotional skills that will allow them to thrive after school.

Through the support of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, I will work with world-leading EdTech professors, take advantage of the unparalleled on-campus opportunities, and grow into a leader capable of transforming Australia’s education system and the lives of millions of young Australians.

This is how Mr. Jack obtained Harvard’s prestigious full-ride scholarship. I hope you found this helpful.

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