STAT September 5, 2025
Students like me were told to identify ourselves. Were we then penalized?
Four pages and 50 words. That was how much I had to remove from my F31 application to submit it again. Doesn’t seem like a big deal, right? But those four pages and 50 words were the parts of my application that I was most proud of.
As a queer Hispanic woman, I was eligible to apply for a predoctoral grant through what is — sorry, what was — called an NIH F31 diversity grant. These grants were meant to support Ph.D. students from marginalized and underrepresented backgrounds, including race, disability, socioeconomic status, and geographic area.
The F31 grant can provide funding for up to five years to...
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