Please note that the information regarding deadlines, application procedures, and eligibility criteria for the Bright Minds Fund Scholarship will be updated in October. We encourage you to check back then for the most accurate and up-to-date information.
This document is an essential part of your Bright Minds Fund application. The personal statement must, by definition, be written by you. It gives you the chance to elaborate on your circumstances.
Take note, the application process for BMF is separate from PPLE’s admissions procedure. This means the BMF Selection Committee will only see and read this particular personal statement. They will not see or read your application for PPLE. Make sure, therefore, to include everything you would like to say to the Selection Committee in your personal statement. Your statement should be a truly different text than the one you handed in for your PPLE admission.
By reading your personal statement, the BMF Selection Committee would very much like to find out:
Besides answering the above-mentioned questions, your personal statement should:
* Migration background refers to students born abroad or who have at least one parent born abroad. ** First-generation refers to students who are the first to attend a college or university in their family.
To be eligible for a Bright Minds Fund scholarship, you need to receive or be eligible for an additional grant (“aanvullende beurs”) from DUO (the Dutch government agency in charge of study finance). In your BMF application, you need to submit proof of this eligibility.
Proof of eligibility can be either; the official statement from DUO or, if you do not have that yet, the result of the calculation from the DUO website. In this calculation, you need to provide information about your family composition and an estimate of your parents' combined income. If you are awarded a BMF scholarship, you will have to provide a copy of the official statement from DUO.
Before handing in your proof of eligibility, make sure that: