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NSF GRFP 2008


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yeah, i'm kind of sad too. i think the NSF is retarded to let people 'hack' (ps, that's not really a hack, if the info is sitting on the server, without any kind of protection) what they have probably been sitting on for a week. i hope someone on their side is following this and sees that the awards got leaked. heck, we should email them.

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just confirming that the awardees list is legit, my name is on there

For those who got the award, have you ever published anything yet when you were undergrad?

i am an extreme case. i had 2 coauthor papers in high school and 1 first author paper in college...

like i said, extreme. i know several people on the list who didn't have any publications in ugrad.

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if it adds more credibility..

my names on that list, I've got 2 conference papers (one first author, and one 2nd second) and 1 IEEE journal paper (1st author).. and just got Hertz too.. don't hit me :mrgreen:

congrats to everyone else!

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just confirming that the awardees list is legit, my name is on there

i am an extreme case. i had 2 coauthor papers in high school and 1 first author paper in college...

like i said, extreme. i know several people on the list who didn't have any publications in ugrad.

I am one of those without publications.

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Where are people getting the honorable mention list?

I was HM last year and this is the last year I can apply. Unfortunately, right after I applied, I found out I have two publications in review/in press. Bah... You can be at the top of your field without one, yes? Someone please agree with me!

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Where are people getting the honorable mention list?

I was HM last year and this is the last year I can apply. Unfortunately, right after I applied, I found out I have two publications in review/in press. Bah... You can be at the top of your field without one, yes? Someone please agree with me!

of course. My PI (MD/PhD UCSD, harvard postdoc) hadn't even heard of the NSF GRFP before this year when I applied.

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Dude, it's kind of random. I had five publications listed when I applied as an undergrad (two first-author), and about sixteen this year (second-year grad) counting the non-refereed conference papers. I'm serious, and I'm not bragging: I got an outright rejection from NSF last time around and an HM this time. So having boatloads of publications isn't what it takes - it seems to be something more intangible than that. ("broader impacts" and "intellectual merit" seems to be the mantra they keep repeating)

Although I am curious - my grades were good but not outstanding, solid B+ average at a tough school, and my subject GREs were so abysmal, I didn't even submit them this time around, which was probably my downfall. Do the people who are getting these basically have all perfect #s? That might be part of it...

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I think it is fruitless to search for any real rhyme or reason to who wins and why. There's no one thing that will get you in. I made HM this year, with no publications outside of conferences, mediocre GREs (1300), near perfect subject test scores, and a perfect gpa.

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