Merit Scholarships
Criteria: U.S. Citizens, Permanent Residents, International Students
Federal Stafford Loans
Criteria: U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents
Federal Perkins Loans
Criteria: U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents
Federal Graduate PLUS Loan
Criteria: U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents
Federal Work-Study
Criteria: U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents
Alternative Student Loan
Criteria: U.S. Citizens, Permanent Residents, International Students (with a U.S. co-signer)
International Student Loans
Criteria: International Students (without a U.S. co-signer)
MBA students and alumni with an interest in the social sector may be eligible for the following programs:
1) Loan Assistance Program (LAP)
Qualified Fuqua Daytime alumni who work full-time for eligible nonprofit and government organizations
2) Class of 1990 Nonprofit and Small Business Internship Award
First-year students who choose a summer internship with a nonprofit, public, or small to medium size company
3) CASE Summer Internship Program
First-year students who pursue summer internships with nonprofit organizations and public agencies
4) CASE Social Sector Scholarship
First-year students with nonprofit experience who intend to return to social sector careers upon graduation
About the Author
I am Atul Jose, Founding Consultant of F1GMAT, an MBA admissions consultancy that has worked with applicants since 2009.
For the past 15 years I have edited the application files of admits to the M7 programs: Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Kellogg School of Management, and Columbia Business School, together with admits to Berkeley Haas, Yale School of Management, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, Duke Fuqua, Darden, Tuck, IMD, London Business School, INSEAD, SDA Bocconi, IESE Business School, HEC Paris, McCombs, and Tepper, plus other programs inside the global top 30.
My work covers the full MBA application deliverable: career planning and profile evaluation, application essay editing, recommendation letter editing, mock interviews and interview preparation, scholarship and fellowship essay editing, and cover letter editing for funding applications. Full bio with credentials and admit history is here.
I am the author of the Winning MBA Essay Guide, the best-selling essay guide covering M7 MBA programs. I have written and updated the guide annually since 2013, which makes the 2026 edition the thirteenth.
The reason I still write and edit essays every cycle: a good MBA essay carries a real applicant's voice. Writing essays for F1GMAT's Books and Editing essays weekly is how I stay calibrated to what current admissions committees respond to.
Contact me for school selection, career planning, essay strategy, narrative development, essay editing, interview preparation, scholarship essay editing, or guidance documents for recommendation letters.