Sorry to hear about the rejections so far! I've heard no news yet... Ahhh...
So were any of the recent postings for the predoctoral fellowship?
avu, I know what you mean, but this actually doesn't surprise me... it's a free competition (i.e. we don't pay application fees) plus with the sheer volume of applications, it just makes sense that they wouldn't give detailed feedback to every single individual. That being said, from what I gathered on previous years' Ford threads, if you're turned down, you can request feedback/rating sheets and get this very same info! (Wouldn't it be cool if they gave it out to everyone by default?)