The Mitchell Scholars will be provided with tuition and room. There also is assistance with traveling expenses to and from the U.S. as well as a travel stipend for travel in Ireland and Britain. Aged 18 or over but not yet thirty on October 1 in the year of application. The proposed course of study must be available at the university elected and the applicant s undergraduate program must provide sufficient basis for study in the proposed field. Applicants prepare a 1000 word essay in which they set out in their own words their interests and aspirations, and their detailed reasons for wishing to study the specific areas of proposed academic work.
Applicants supply a brief description of their activities during their college years.
Applicants provide the names and full addresses of no less than 5 and no more than 8 persons who have agreed to write letters of recommendation. Referents must use the Letter of Recommendation form and must send 10 copies of their letters directly to the US-Ireland Alliance. Applicants must be endorsed by an institution where she will have completed two years of full-time study. The other nine sets may be photocopies. The applicant s college transcript.