Fellow Highlights

The 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows by the Numbers: Infographics

April 18, 2017

The 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows are a remarkable group of immigrants and children of immigrants. Learn more about their backgrounds:

White infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows by Family Heritage" below that a world map with navy text over a region stating numbers "8 Latin America & Caribbean" "3 Eastern Europe & The Caucasus" "4 Middle East" "2 Sub-Saharan Africa" "3 East Asia" "9 South Asia" "3 Southeast Asia", an additional note "Two Fellows have heritage in more than one region". PDSoros.org appears at the bottom in navy.

Orange graphic with navy blue text header "2017 Fellow Narrative"; plus a quote "As New Americans, we are in the best position to benefit from America's promises - but also, to see its shortcomings. Because implicit in being a New American is that you are an 'old' something else; there is somewhere else you were supposed to live, something else your life was supposed to be.". At the bottom in dark blue "PDSOROS.ORG".

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships does not have any quotas. Each year we see different regions being represented more or less. For example, this year we have 9 Fellows who have heritage in South Asia, but two years ago we had just one.

Each Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow’s story is different and unique to them. At a time when we need to hear more immigrant stories, we wanted to highlight a few quotes from the application essays of 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows.

Yellow infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: Undergraduate Institutions", below is a circle of undergraduate emblems and "20" in orange in the middle of the circle. PDSoros.org in navy across the bottom.

White infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: Graduate Institutions", below are emblems from 10 universities, they are "Harvard, Julliard, UPenn, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, UCSF, Stanford, Iowa". PDSoros.org in navy across the bottom.

The 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows graduated from a total of 20 undergraduate institutions: Colby College Cornell University Duke University Harvard University Johns Hopkins University Lynn University MIT Mount Holyoke Colloge New England Conservatory of Music Princeton University Regis College San Francisco State University Stanford University SUNY College at Purchase Trinity College UC Berkeley University of Oklahoma University of Vermont University of Pennsylvania Yale University

The 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows are attending ten universities total for graduate school: 1. Columbia 2. Harvard 3. Juilliard 4. Princeton 5. Stanford 6. The University of Iowa 7. UC Berkeley 8. UCSF 9. Upenn 10. Yale

Light green infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: Primary Field of Study", below are icons representing fields of study, they are "Public Health, Economics, Music, Political Science, Chemical Engineering, Business, Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, Writing, Artificial Intelligence, Visual Arts, Law, Medicine". PDSoros.org in navy across the bottom.

Navy infographic with white text across the top "2017 Fellows by Gender", below are icons for female (in orange) and male (in light green). "12" appears on the interior of the female symbol and "18" is in the center of the male symbol. PDSoros.org in navy across the bottom.

The 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows are all pursuing graduate school in the 2017-2018 academic year.

12 of the 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows identify as female, and 18 identify as male.

Light blue infographic with navy text across the top "Age Distribution of 2017 Fellows". Below is a graph made of white dots, with yellow dots representing the number of fellows for each age "3 Fellows are 21" "5 Fellows are 22" "3 Fellows are 23" "2 Fellows are 24" "Average 4 Fellows are 25" "6 Fellows are 26" "3 Fellows are 27" "3 Fellows are 28" "0 Fellows are 29" "1 Fellow is 30". PDSoros.org is along the bottom in navy.

Yellow infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: Age at Immigration" below that three blocks showing the number of fellows in each category "Born in the U.S. 18" "Under 10 6" "Over 10 6". PDSoros.org is along the right side in navy.

This graphic shows the age distribution of the 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows as of the November 1, 2017 application deadline.

This graphic shows the age that Fellows immigrated to the United States. 18 of the Fellows are the children of immigrants and were born in the United States.

Orange infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: First-generation college graduates" below that a navy graduation cap and the text "6 fellows". PDSoros.org is along the bottom in navy.

Yellow infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: Diversity in Family Income growing up", below are three houses of varying sizes. Single window house in white with red roof and "8 <$40,000", next is a blue two window house with "13 $40,000-$120,000" and last a 12 window house with a green roof "5 >$120,000". PDSoros.org is along the bottom in navy.

This year, six of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows are first-generation college graduates.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is a merit-based fellowship, rather than a need-based fellowship. Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows come a range of socio-economic backgrounds. This graphic represents the household income of the 2017 Fellows when they were growing up.

White infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows by New American Status". Below are 3 graphics and text with a count of fellows in that category: "18 Citizen by Birth" "9 Naturalized US Citizen" "3 Green Card Holder". PDSoros.org is along the bottom in navy.

Light green infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: Number of Languages spoken fluently". Below are 2 graphics in blue and yellow that look like faces next to each is navy text "14 fellows are bilingual" and "7 fellows speak three or more languages fluently". PDSoros.org is along the bottom in navy.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is open to green card holders, DACA recipients, naturalized citizens, and US citizens by birth who are the children of immigrants.

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows come from all over the country and world and often are fluent in more than one language. Of the 2017 Fellows, 14 are bilingual and 7 speak more than two languages fluently. 2017 Fellow Xuan Hong Thi Tran speaks Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, and French, and is conversational in Tibetan, Indonesian, and Arabic.

Light blue infographic with navy text "2017 Fellow Narrative" followed by a quote "My Civics class ultimately motivated me to enlist in the Marine Corps to earn a career and improve my quality of life. Suddenly, I had stable housing, food security, and job security, all of which had evaded my family since I can remember." PDSoros.org is along the bottom in navy.

Light green infographic with navy text across the top "2017 Fellows: Historical Figure that represents the American Spirit" below are 6 caricature's of Abraham Lincoln, James Baldwin, Maya Lin, Harvey Milk, Muhammad Ali, Grace Hopper. PDSoros.org is along the bottom in navy.

We asked each of the 2017 Fellows “Who is a historical figure that represents the American spirit?” Here are just a few of the answers we heard. Other answers included: -Leonard Bernstein -Nikola Tesla -Hellen Keller -Eleanor Roosevelt -Duke Ellington -Martin Luther King, Jr. -Harriet Tubman -Lyndon B. Johnson -Andrew Carnegie -J. Robert Oppenheimer -John Forbes Nash, Jr. -Prince Rogers Nelson -Emma Goldman -Shirley Chisholm -Grace Lee Boggs