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We have helped our clients get fully funded PhD offers to top programs like these:

 

Fearless Grads are 300% to 400% more likely to secure fully funded PhD positions than other applicants. 

Oluchi - Fully Funded PhD at Stanford

"Going through this program, aside from helping you get into your dream PhD program, it also helps you think differently. So when you start your PhD I already know what I want to do. I know the right people I want to meet. I know professors I want to work with. I already have an idea of what my committee should look like. I think it helps you beyond just applying to school. It's definitely worth the investment."

 

Let me know if this sounds like you…

 

  • You’ve got some experience in your field, or maybe even a masters
  • You want to have a bigger impact and be able to lead projects, not just complete tasks from those with their PhD
  • You’re unsure how to market your experience to PhD admissions committees so they’ll actually pick you instead of everybody else
  • You might not have any support system or friends or family with their PhD, and figuring it out all on your own feels isolating
  • You want to get into top programs with full funding so you can have access to all the resources and networks
  • You’re busy working, doing school, and juggling friends and family and finding the time to do this application seems daunting.

Trust me, I get it.

 

 

Here’s how we help you build an unbeatable PhD application in 4 steps

1. We Teach You To Think Like a PhD

 

We teach you what PhD faculty and programs value, and then we teach you how to show up as that best version of yourself. 

We teach you how to determine your ideal program fit in terms of faculty mentorship, research interests, cultural fit and how this will lead to your bigger vision of your career with impact. 

At the end of our process you will know exactly what you do (and don’t) want in your PhD, and how to think like a PhD and craft your application so you get in and love where you are.

 

1. We Teach You To Think Like a PhD

 

We teach you what PhD faculty and programs value, and then we teach you how to show up as that best version of yourself. 

We teach you how to determine your ideal program fit in terms of faculty mentorship, research interests, cultural fit and how this will lead to your bigger vision of your career with impact. 

At the end of our process you will know exactly what you do (and don’t) want in your PhD, and how to think like a PhD and craft your application so you get in and love where you are.

 

2. We Teach You To Network With Faculty And PhDs To Build Relationships

 

Networking with faculty and current PhDs is critical to your success in three ways: (1) you build real relationships, (2) you learn what’s “hot” right now in your field so you can pitch that in your application, and (3) you learn if this program is a good fit for you so you can save your energy for other programs that are a better fit.

This skill is totally teachable. I teach you how to do this in a way that feels good and aligned with your values, not in a transactional icky way.

At the end of our program you will have networked and built real relationships with faculty and PhDs, which will make them way more likely to choose you.

2. We Teach You To Network With Faculty And PhDs To Build Relationships

 

Networking with faculty and current PhDs is critical to your success in three ways: (1) you build real relationships, (2) you learn what’s “hot” right now in your field so you can pitch that in your application, and (3) you learn if this program is a good fit for you so you can save your energy for other programs that are a better fit.

This skill is totally teachable. I teach you how to do this in a way that feels good and aligned with your values, not in a transactional icky way.

At the end of our program you will have networked and built real relationships with faculty and PhDs, which will make them way more likely to choose you.

3. We Teach You How To Write Critically And Compel Them To Choose You

 

I teach you a simple and wildly effective writing process to help you articulate your research goals, showcase your value as the best person to do the thing you pitch, and highlight why this exact program is the best place to help you achieve your big vision with impact.

3. We Teach You How To Write Critically And Compel Them To Choose You

 

I teach you a simple and wildly effective writing process to help you articulate your research goals, showcase your value as the best person to do the thing you pitch, and highlight why this exact program is the best place to help you achieve your big vision with impact.

4. We Teach You To Interview Like A Leader

 

We teach you how to own the room when you interview, so you are the obvious choice for that fully funded PhD position. 

We know what they’re looking for in top candidates, and we know how to help you show up confidently, so they are magnetically drawn to you. 

This is the part where you shine.

4. We Teach You To Interview Like A Leader

 

We teach you how to own the room when you interview, so you are the obvious choice for that fully funded PhD position. 

We know what they’re looking for in top candidates, and we know how to help you show up confidently, so they are magnetically drawn to you. 

This is the part where you shine.

Before the Gearless Grad program, honestly I was just kind of ruminating on this, not thinking it would really be a possibility or it would take a really long time to get into a PhD program. Then after the fearless grad program, I would say it was a peaceful process. I think the biggest thing that stuck out to me during the program was the concept of contacting the advisor and having that conversation.
 
- Kenna
I didn't really understand the PhD process at all, which is very different from undergrad or even different from when I got my masters. So now I’m actually at the end, and I’m getting ready to submit my first application. I'm very excited because I've actually talked to program directors.  I don't feel nervous anymore, I'm confident.
 
- Ny-Anja
I had a challenge with how to present myself and my ideas. I didn’t really know the mechanics and flow to make it clear that I should be a scholar. This program helped me with that and had a very clear picture of the process and also a very customized and individual editing process with my resume and SOP.
 
- Kien
I really liked going through the videos, and I would take my own notes with the videos at the same time, and then go through each of the outlined worksheets, and I was able to complete them much more easily and address some of my concerns. Things that I hadn’t really addressed in the past with my previous application obstacles.
 
- Sydney
I think my problem was that I  focused a lot on my experience and I didn't know how to connect with the questions in the essay prompts. Then in our meetings you tackled it sentence by sentence and I really appreciate that.
 
- Nguyet
I didn't know that I was really nervous about the networking piece of it. I found that Excel sheet where I was researching professors and then their interests, that one was really helpful. Then I felt more comfortable reaching out to professors.
 
- Julia
I didn't know that there was going to be this level of support, that you're always having meetings and responding in slack when we have questions. So I thought that was pretty valuable to have this ongoing support for almost a year.
 
- Gaby

Next year you could…

 

Be starting your dream PhD on a beautiful campus 

Have a fully funded position where you have time to focus on your research interests

Have the skills to hit the ground running, head and shoulders above other year 1 PhDs

 

We help you get in and thrive in your PhD so you can become the leader you were meant to be.

Why Will You Be Successful?

Checkout this video to learn how the Fearless Grad Program works to create big results.

 

Fearless Grad Program Features that work together to deliver results

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The Fearless Grad On-Demand Program Overview

MODULE 1

Define your goals

  • How to translate your passion into actual research and career goals.
  • What funding strategy makes the most sense for you.
  • How to communicate with your support system to get the support you need, instead of pressure and judgment.

You’ll have a clear picture of your personal PhD goals, initial research interests, and a funding strategy that makes fiscal sense for you.

MODULE 2

Finding the right PhD programs for you

  • What 3 things to consider when evaluating programs so you find the exact right PhD program for you.
  • How to make sure your research and career goals will be accomplished at this program.
  • The super sneaky way to find “hidden gem” programs that most applicants aren’t doing.

You’ll have a program list that is most aligned with your goals, and know how to keep evaluating programs throughout the application and interview process.

MODULE 3

Resume and GRE

  • How to craft your resume so it wows the admissions committee.
  • Key things to avoid on your resume, which are guaranteed to make their eyes glaze over and say “next”.
  • What GRE strategy is best for you (if you need one at all!).

You’ll have a stand out resume specific to PhD admission (instead of industry), and a clear strategy for your GRE.

MODULE 4

Networking and Connecting with Faculty

  • How to connect with everyone in academia so they are all saying the same thing: “we want her!”
  • How to finally know which professor is the best one to reach out to.
  • Email templates and guides to not only connect with faculty but actually get responses.
  • What key questions you should be asking program admins, so you don’t end up at the wrong program and hate it.
  • How to run a zoom interview with potential faculty like the leader you are.
  • How to follow up with faculty and PhDs so you stay in contact without feeling like a pest.
  • Bonus interviews with actual University professors on what they’re looking for in PhD candidates.

You’ll know exactly who to reach out to, how to get them to agree to an informal zoom interview, and how to completely wow them so they are sure to remember your name when admission decisions happen in January.

MODULE 5

Application Necessities

  • How to get amazing letters of rec, even if you’ve lost touch with faculty.
  • How to update your Linkedin so their very first google search of your name makes them say “yes, yes we definitely want to speak with her”.
  • Checklist for all application materials, so you’re not scrambling at the last minute to get them together.

You’ll know exactly what you need for every piece of your application to be spot on, and have a checklist to keep you on task.

MODULE 6

Outside funding

  • How to get amazing letters of rec, even if you’ve lost touch with faculty.
  • How to update your Linkedin so their very first google search of your name makes them say “yes, yes we definitely want to speak with her”.
  • Checklist for all application materials, so you’re not scrambling at the last minute to get them together.
  • How to find additional sources of funding outside of the Universities.
  • Make yourself competitive, no matter what your background or GPA are.
  • The 3 key things scholarship committees are looking for.

You’ll know additional sources of funding and have a fellowship strategy to deploy.

MODULE 7

Decisions

  • How to decide scientifically where you should apply for your PhD
  • Why applying to fewer programs is actually a good thing
  • Red flags to look out for, so you thrive in your program instead of survive

You’ll know exactly where to apply to maximize your chances of success, and save you time and energy not applying to programs that are not a good fit.

MODULE 8

Statement of Purpose

  • What the essay prompt really means, and how you should approach it.
  • The 4 things every statement of purpose MUST include.
  • My million dollar SOP template, that makes it so easy to draft your SOP you’ll have your first draft done in a weekend.
  • Pitfalls to avoid looking like someone who has no clue what they are doing.
  • How to craft research statements so the professors can’t wait to work with you.
  • How to approach diversity statements and feel comfortable with what you share.

You’ll have a compelling SOP that showcases you as the best PhD candidate so they pick you for the fully funded $300k package.

MODULE 9

Interviewing and Deciding On Your Offer

  • How to ace the formal interviews, so you’re not a maybe but you’re a ‘hell yes’.
  • How to negotiate and decide where you should accept your PhD offer.
  • What to expect from PhD programs, so you’re prepared and confident.

You’ll know what to expect and how to crush the interview so they feel totally confident extending you an offer.

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Taylor - Fully Funded PhD at Columbia Teachers College

"I decided to pursue a PhD again after not getting in the first round. It was really scary and looking back there were lots of things I would have done differently, so I really wanted to kind of um set myself up and have as much support as possible in the process for round two.  Now, after the program, I mean it's very different in that I have achieved a lifelong goal getting into my PhD, and before the program I was in a state of just feeling really scared about the whole thing. I realized how much I needed a community and people who really knew what they were doing to help me."

 

Kenna - Fully Funded PhD at Vanderbilt

"So before the fearless grad program honestly I was just kind of ruminating on this, not thinking it would really be a possibility or it would take a really long time to get to this space. Then after the fearless grad program I would say it was a peaceful process. I think the structure that you provided made it a fairly peaceful process, cuz there was a plan and a rhyme and reason for everything. So now I'm on the other side of the fearless grad program with an acceptance in my sanity."

 

Chi - Fully Funded PhD at The University of Oklahoma

"As I joined the Fearless Grad Program I recognized how important this process is. I really needed to set my priorities and know what I want to do. What I like is you always asking us about how or why we chose this path? Or what are you passionate about? or what do you want to research? So from there I explored for myself what I wanted to research and it really helped me."

 

 

 

Kenna - Fully Funded PhD at Vanderbilt

So before the fearless grad program honestly I was just kind of ruminating on this, not thinking it would really be a possibility or it would take a really long time to get to this space. Then after the fearless grad program I would say it was a peaceful process. I think the structure that you provided made it a fairly peaceful process, cuz there was a plan and a rhyme and reason for everything. So now I'm on the other side of the fearless grad program with an acceptance in my sanity.

 

 

Chi - Fully Funded PhD at The University of Oklahoma

As I joined the Fearless Grad Program I recognized how important this process is. I really needed to set my priorities and know what I want to do. What I like is you always asking us about how or why we chose this path? Or what are you passionate about? or what do you want to research? So from there I explored for myself what I wanted to research and it really helped me.

 

 

 

 

Catherine - Fully Funded PhD at Princeton (and UC Santa Barbara, and Northwestern, and Boston University)

"didn't want to apply twice because it's a laborious and stressful and expensive process so I kind of felt like it would be saving some of those expenses in the long run. And I wanted to know that I did everything I could to get myself where I wanted to be the first time. So I kind of thought that, like, I just wanted to give myself every possibility and every perspective I could to get in on my first round."

Kien - Fully Funded PhD at University of Iowa (and University of Oregon and Indiana Bloomington University)

"You have a very clear picture of the process and the steps to go through. And then also a very customized individualized editing process with my resume and also with my SOP,  those are very helpful. Having the worksheets that we had were helpful, and then we can input the information in there to make sure that we're in a good spot, like finding a lab that we could possibly work in and that kind of clears up a lot."

Catherine - Fully Funded PhD at Princeton (and UC Santa Barbara, and Northwestern, and Boston University)

I didn't want to apply twice because it's a laborious and stressful and expensive process so I kind of felt like it would be saving some of those expenses in the long run. And I wanted to know that I did everything I could to get myself where I wanted to be the first time. So I kind of thought that, like, I just wanted to give myself every possibility and every perspective I could to get in on my first round.

 

 

Kien - Fully Funded PhD at University of Iowa (and University of Oregon and Indiana Bloomington University)

You have a very clear picture of the process and the steps to go through. And then also a very customized individualized editing process with my resume and also with my SOP,  those are very helpful. Having the worksheets that we had were helpful, and then we can input the information in there to make sure that we're in a good spot, like finding a lab that we could possibly work in and that kind of clears up a lot.

 

Debanjana- Fully Funded PhD at Texas A&M

"I wasn't confident at all. And I was even ready to keep continuing in my previous institution with my PhD. But after going through this process and with all of your guidance, I got into my dream program in my dream college and so it's kind of my dream come true. One of the things that really helped me was how you guided me with networking with professors." 

 

Wendy - Fully funded PhD at Rice University

I wanted to be able to conduct my own research and projects. I wanted to keep growing.

I applied once before and it was awful, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my PhD. I panicked and I got rejected and I was devastated. I didn’t know how to improve, because I didn’t get feedback. After I did this program, it was a lot easier. My whole mindset changed and now I have my 2 acceptance letters. It is an overwhelming process, but it doesn't have to be.

Before, I was lost and I didn't even know which area I wanted to focus on, so my SOP was all over the place. Now this time it was much better. The other thing that helped me a lot was actually reaching out to PIs and even talking with them.

 

Gaby - Fully Funded PhD at Berkeley

I didn't feel that I could see myself in my same job for a longer time and I wanted to do a lot more research, that's why I decided to go for my PhD.


In this program, having that clarity and learning how to highlight all of your skills and your experience and tie that into that program of interest really helped.  And really digging into not just a program in particular but understanding the professors of interest and also contacting them in a way that they would be more likely to read your email and reply to you, that was really an  important part. The community was also one of the biggest things I valued, because that really helped me through this.

 

Wendy - Fully funded PhD at Rice University

"I wanted to be able to conduct my own research and projects. I wanted to keep growing.

I applied once before and it was awful, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my PhD. I panicked and I got rejected and I was devastated. I didn’t know how to improve, because I didn’t get feedback. After I did this program, it was a lot easier. My whole mindset changed and now I have my 2 acceptance letters. It is an overwhelming process, but it doesn't have to be.

Before, I was lost and I didn't even know which area I wanted to focus on, so my SOP was all over the place. Now this time it was much better. The other thing that helped me a lot was actually reaching out to PIs and even talking with them."

Gaby - Fully Funded PhD at Berkeley

"I didn't feel that I could see myself in my same job for a longer time and I wanted to do a lot more research, that's why I decided to go for my PhD.


In this program, having that clarity and learning how to highlight all of your skills and your experience and tie that into that program of interest really helped.  And really digging into not just a program in particular but understanding the professors of interest and also contacting them in a way that they would be more likely to read your email and reply to you, that was really an  important part. The community was also one of the biggest things I valued, because that really helped me through this."

Martha - Fully Funded PhD at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

"Before the Fearless Grad program I was at a 5/10 and now after doing the program I’m a 9/10 on confidence to apply to PhD programs. I felt way more organized though the whole process."

 

Vikki- Fully Funded PhD at University of Reading in the UK

Fearless Grad Program help me with getting my  applicator that first application to CEH when they had loads of kind of really open questions so like tell us about yourself when I was like I don't know what to do but like we'd practice some of that already so I was like oh I do kind of know what you're after here so like let's go with that so yeah that was really helpful.

 

Martha - Fully Funded PhD at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

"Before the Fearless Grad program I was at a 5/10 and now after doing the program I’m a 9/10 on confidence to apply to PhD programs. I felt way more organized though the whole process."

Vikki- Fully Funded PhD at University of Reading in the UK

Fearless Grad Program help me with getting my  applicator that first application to CEH when they had loads of kind of really open questions so like tell us about yourself when I was like I don't know what to do but like we'd practice some of that already so I was like oh I do kind of know what you're after here so like let's go with that so yeah that was really helpful.

Sarah- Fully Funded PhD at Cornegie Mellon

"I am so thankful for the push that you gave us to really reach out and the templates of how to have a conversation with them because those conversations directly informed my research proposals and statement of purpose and those pieces were so much stronger because of these discussions I had"

 
I made the decision to go to grad school a little later on, and finding resources and trying to learn about the whole process was very daunting. Natalie definitely helped clarify this and was also full of great tips I would not have found without her. She helped streamline my thought process and how to focus and reach out to professors.
 Nick - Fully Funded PhD at Princeton
The biggest stressor for me was not having a timeline and how to do things I knew needed to be done, but there were so many details I couldn’t keep track of. It’s been very helpful to have someone be like OK, this week work on this, and this week work on that, here is what to do, here are literal workbooks. And you can do them on your own time and the details are all laid out in a helpful way. I feel so much more in control now.
 
Sarah - Fully Funded PhD at Carnegie Mellon University (and UPenn and Imperial, University College London)
I didn't really understand the PhD process at all, which is very different from undergrad or even different from when I got my masters. So now I’m actually at the end, and I’m getting ready to submit my first application. I'm very excited because I've actually talked to program directors.  I don't feel nervous anymore, I'm confident.
 
Ny-Aja - Fully Funded PhD UNC Chapel Hill
I think my problem was that I  focused a lot on my experience and I didn't know how to connect with the questions in the essay prompts. Then in our meetings you tackled it sentence by sentence and I really appreciate that.
 
Nguyet - Fully Funded PhD at Fordham University

The Guarantee

The Fearless Grad process is guaranteed: if you do the work and don't get the results you want, we will work with you 100% free next cycle until you hit your goal. We’re that certain in our process and in you getting results.

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