The Scholars are truly remarkable and inspiring individuals and showed at interview that they fit the mission of the Scholarship by their commitment to using their academic skills and leadership capacity to improve the lives of others.
-Professor Barry Everitt, Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust
They include the first Scholars from Afghanistan, Madagascar, Indonesia, Macedonia and Dominica.
Competition for the Scholarships is fierce. The 55 successful candidates were selected from a total pool of 3,647 applicants on the basis of their intellectual ability, leadership capacity, academic fit with Cambridge, and their commitment to improving the lives of others. Departments in Cambridge nominated candidates for the Scholarships and, of these, 111 were interviewed in Cambridge in late March (in person, by Skype or by telephone) by four panels of interviewers drawn from across the Schools in the University. Thirty five of these were for one-year courses and 76 for PhDs. Sixty-eight of the applicants were female, compared to 43 male applicants.
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Image: Gates Cambridge Scholars 2014
Credit: Sir Cam
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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