Cottrell Scholars

Application Process Help Page

If you are having problems submitting your proposal, please use the following steps before contacting RCSA. 

The online system accepts PDF files no larger than 5 MB. To avoid large files do not scan the full document. Please incorporate a scanned endorsement page into a word processor document containing your proposal before converting the full document to PDF format.  To reduce the file size, use Adobe Acrobat’s “Reduce Size PDF” option.  Depending on your version of Acrobat this option is located under the Save As or Save As Other.

The email address you use when creating your account login is the address you need to use for all subsequent logins, so please use your official email from your home institution.  If you are unable to view your previous submittals, it is likely that you are not using the email login associated with your original login account.