Like most achievements in life, attaining renowned fellowships and admission to leading academic degree programs requires considerable preparation and hard work. However, generalized preparation is not enough. You must prepare effectively by focusing your efforts strategically on the tasks most relevant to your goals.

Effective preparation requires an awareness of the range of options available to you and the subtle differences in program selection criteria and processes. It can also be helpful to explore the kinds of people who are attracted to and successful in these programs and their retrospective opinions about each program's relative strengths and weaknesses.

A new way to research academic programs and awards

Expert Exchange™ is a data-rich, fully searchable knowledge base that is exclusive to Live to Learn. Here, you can access personal materials submitted by literally hundreds of successful applicants – our Experts – to dozens of the most prestigious academic degree and fellowship programs in the world, including Rhodes Scholars, Truman Scholars, Luce Scholars, Marshall Scholars, and White House Fellows.

These are our Experts – the people who have already made it to where you want to be – and the information they'll share with you is extraordinary.

Not sure about which program to apply for?

Our Experts will not only tell you about their enjoyable academic experiences, but about their disappointments as well. You can research the subtle differences between each program’s selection criteria, and the extent to which they live up to their respective reputations. That’s the purpose of Expert Exchange – to give you the whole picture, as seen by those in the best position to observe it – the students who were actually there.

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