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• Establish a solid grade point average
• Join organizations, activities, and causes that represent issues that are important to you
  • Your involvement demonstrates your passions and motivations outside the classroom. Find ways you can make an impact in the Hattiesburg community.
• Show intellectual well-roundedness
  • Pursue an ambitious and diverse curriculum. Seek extra-curricular involvement, on campus. Join groups that represent issues that align with your personal and professional interests. Demonstrate commitment and passion. Search for leadership opportunities. Identify a need and fill it. Broaden your horizons.
• Develop close relationships with faculty in several disciplines
  • Get involved through research, internships, service-learning, study abroad, or other opportunities. You want future recommenders to write personally about you.
• Stay informed
  • Read the newspaper daily (The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal) or follow them on Twitter. Listen to podcasts, Ted Talks, or news radio (NPR). Know what is being talked about in the world around you.
• Keep a journal
  • The personal statement is one of the most important components of a grant application in which you talk about your background, life experiences, personal, academic, and professional interests, and aspirations. Keeping a journal helps you know yourself, remember highlights from your life experiences, and strengthen your writing skills.
• Meet with the Project Director for Nationally Competitive Programs
  
  • Schedule an initial appointment to discuss professional and personal goals. (More information coming soon!)

• Start undergraduate research with a faculty member

• Beginning research early is especially important if you are a science or engineering major.

• Continue your involvement in organizations and with causes

• Find unmet needs on campus and in the community, and determine solutions.

• Show intellectual well-roundedness

• Craft diverse and interesting semester schedules that challenge you and reflect a broad array of understanding. Consider taking upper-division (300-level) courses.

• Look ahead to the summer
  • Seek internships, study abroad opportunities, or experiences that will strengthen your application and broaden your awareness. Reflect upon your life values and goals. Dream big. Clarify steps you can follow to reach your goals.
• Know your award options
  • Review the applications you have an interest in with the Project Director for Nationally Competitive Programs before departing for the summer by scheduling an initial appointment. Determine gaps in your application that can be filled over the break.

• Make yourself nationally competitive
  • Start undergraduate research in your junior year and continue throughout your senior year.
• Give back to your discipline
  • Present at conferences, and attend state and national meetings. Depending on your major, give performances, hold an art exhibit, or publish in a reputable journal. Enroll in a graduate-level course if possible.
• Know where you are going and where you have been
  • Consider your future academic goals. Know your "why" and be able to share your plan of study and your passion behind it. 
• Bolster your r茅sum茅 and transcript
  • Seek an active role in organizations and activities that are personal to your interests and goals. Take challenging courses in and out of your major area of study.
• Prepare for senior awards in your junior year
  • Your senior year will offer many options for nationally competitive awards, such as the Marshall, Rhodes, Gates Cambridge, Mitchell, and NSF. The most successful students begin the application process in their junior year. Meet individually with the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards or attend a workshop to learn more about each scholarship. Assess the areas that you need to strengthen to be nationally competitive, and address these over the summer.
• Start planning for graduate school
  • Define your areas of interest for graduate school, and begin speaking with professors about reputable programs in your field of study. Meet one-on-one with professors to secure letters of recommendation, providing each recommender with an academic r茅sum茅 and examples of work you did in their class.
• Prepare for national exams
  • Spend months studying for national entrance exams such as GRE, GRE subject exam (when applicable), and MCAT, etc.
• Utilize Nationally Competitive Programs
  • Schedule a meeting with our office by emailinghonorsFREEMississippi. 

• All majors opportunity for fall, spring, or summer to earn major class and internship credit in Washington D.C.

• Offers grants for Pell Grant eligible undergraduates to pursue study abroad

• The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are three-to-four week programs for US undergraduate students. Experience higher education in the UK.

• Science, math and engineering majors planning doctoral studies and research following undergraduate degree

• All majors interested in environmental, sustainability, or planning issues or Native Americans focusing on health care or tribal policy

• All majors participating in undergraduate research with a minimum 30 cumulative hours and 3.25 GPA

The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are three-to-four week programs for US undergraduate students. Experience higher education in the UK.

• All majors for study abroad in a critical need country

• Offers grants for Pell Grant eligible undergraduates to pursue study abroad

• Intensive summer research for undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors

• All majors opportunity for fall, spring, or summer to earn major class and internship credit in Washington D.C.

• Summer program designed to provide undergraduate students with a deeper appreciation of current issues and trends in international affairs.

• All majors with demonstrated leadership and campus/community involvement with career plans in public service or public policy

• Science, math and engineering majors planning doctoral studies and research following undergraduate degree

• All majors interested in environmental, sustainability, or planning issues or Native Americans focusing on health care or tribal policy

• Summer program designed to provide undergraduate students with a deeper appreciation of current issues and trends in international affairs.

• All majors participating in undergraduate research with a minimum 30 cumulative hours and 3.25 GPA

• All majors for study abroad in a critical need country

• Offers grants for Pell Grant eligible undergraduates to pursue study abroad

• Intensive summer research for undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors

• All majors opportunity for fall, spring, or summer to earn major class and internship credit in Washington D.C.

• All majors interested in foreign policy and/or careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State

• All majors interested in foreign policy and/or careers the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State

• All majors for graduate study at Oxford University

• All majors for graduate study in the United Kingdom

• All majors for graduate study at Cambridge University

• All majors for graduate study at approved institutions in Ireland and Northern Ireland

• All majors interested in graduate study provided through the Global Affairs degree program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China

• All majors interested in teaching US history or government

• All majors interested in teaching or researching abroad

• All majors participating in undergraduate research with a minimum 30 cumulative hours and 3.25 GPA

• Science, math, engineering, and social science majors pursuing post-graduate research

• Science, math, and engineering majors pursuing post-graduate degree

• Science, math, and engineering majors pursuing post-graduate degree