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DiCola- I also applied for South Korea and was rejected, I wonder if they had an unusually high number of applicants for S.Korea this year? @Memba also applied for a fellowship to S.Korea....did you end up getting approved Memba?

Got the email, didn't get it

http://www.borenawards.org/document/download/boren_scholarship_summary_stats_41.pdf Don't know about 2014, but here are the statistics from last year which is pretty interesting. There are no set quotas for each region/country though.

I applied for the fellowship without AFLI and received one email as follows on March 10th: Hello from the Boren Awards. We are emailing all 2014 Boren Fellowship applicants to see if you have any minor changes to your budget or program dates at this point. We understand that programs and budgets might have changed a little since you submitted your application. All applications are still being reviewed at this time and no decisions have been made yet. Please email us any budget or date changes by this Friday. If you don’t have any changes, please do not reply to this email. We will be sending the notification emails to everyone in late April. That is the only correspondence I have gotten from Boren Awards, hope this helps!

Which notices do you mean? Budget emails or notice of award? They said on Facebook awardees will be contacted by the end of April.

Emb- I feel like they're avoiding sending out a formal budget email simply because they realize that it leads to too much speculation, so instead they just sent out a general confirmation of dates and budgets. Also, they did emphasize in the webinars that there's no "right" combination of language/internship/program, etc. and there's really not one language that's given preference over another. In essence it's the strength of your proposal as a whole and your ability to show the feasibility of you executing that plan. I would agree that Mandarin and Arabic are the "top choices" simply because they are popular languages to learn these days, not because the Boren thinks they are more important than other languages or because they have more money dedicated to programs for these languages. Applicants are chosen and funding is given solely based on the overall package of your program plan, or at least that was my understanding based on all the webinar information.

@Nurd- To my knowledge, no one on this forum has mentioned getting a second email of any kind from this year, unless it was to specifically verify a date or program detail (there was no mass email sent out a second time). I also applied for the fellowship, but the email I received didn't look anything like this, however it was a verification of dates and budget as it was in the scholarship email.

No one in this forum mentioned a second email on here unless it was to specifically clarify dates and such....unless you are aware of something not mentioned in this forum. It would appear that the scholarship "budget" email was sent later than the fellowship budget email, so maybe that is why you're confused.

vyoung1- It is my understanding that the only requirement for the fellowship is that you are "matriculated" in a graduate program. That being said, I believe you could do the fellowship before you start your coursework, but you need to be admitted and show proof that you are in that program of study....or at least that's my best guess with the information given.

I am applying for a Fellowship to S.Korea and I got an budget email as well. I think it's strange that they want it by tomorrow? My advisor is out of town until Monday on a conference so I'm kind of shooting in the dark here. Plus past years seem to indicate they don't typically send these emails out until late March...are we assuming that they really haven't made any cuts yet?