Marguerite Keasbey established the Henry Griffith Keasbey and Anna Griffith Keasbey Memorial Foundation in 1953 to honor her parents. In the interest of promoting Anglo-American relations and providing Americans with an opportunity to experience the British educational system, the Keasbey Memorial Foundation awards scholarships annually to support one or two years of postgraduate study (depending on the duration of the degree course for which application is made) at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, or Aberystwyth.
Yale College is one of a select group of American institutions invited every three years to nominate candidates to the national competition. In the autumn of 2016, Yale is invited to nominate two members of the class of 2017 for the Keasbey, for study beginning in 2017-18. Nominees will be invited for personal interviews by the Trustees of the Keasbey Foundation in Philadelphia on December 9, 2016, and it is expected that two Scholars will be named for study in Britain beginning in 2017-18.
The Keasbey Scholarship award consists of a direct payment to the British institution involved to cover tuition and other fixed charges, a cost of living stipend paid to the Scholar to cover board, lodging, and general subsistence, and an allowance for travel between the United States and Great Britain. The stipend is approximately equal to that of the Rhodes Scholarship.
Interested Yale applicants, after doing some research of their own, may refer questions to Fellowship Programs at the Yale College Center for International & Professional Experience (meetings by appointment). We are glad to advise applicants on the choice of recommenders, essays, and other application strategies.
Applications for Yale's nomination for the Keasbey must (apart from letters) be submitted via the Yale Student Grants Database before the campus application deadline.
The Keasbey application entails:
Transcripts: For the initial campus competition, unofficial Yale College transcripts will suffice. However, for the ensuing national competition, each nominee must request an official transcript from the Yale College Registrar. An official transcript must also be requested from any other institution attended for post-secondary studies (to be sent directly to the Fellowships office, to arrive by the end of October). Only one official copy of each transcript is required.
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Applicants for the Keasbey are strongly advised to apply to the British university for the degree course of their choice by the application deadline for that course or by early December and the Keasbey finalist interviews, whichever comes first. (Like the Rhodes, the Keasbey would support either a graduate degree or, in the case of Oxford or Cambridge, a second bachelor's degree in two years, sometimes called an affiliated degree.)