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  1. Yeah we will see. I don't recall that statement about June 25th and the 2015FellowshipsRFA@epa.gov and emailing being up in the original announcement when I was working on this? Does anyone else recall that or was it added later? I mean I would think the agency would be in a lot of trouble if they didn't review applications that they assigned tracking numbers when the issue is pretty obviously on their end. I guess if its any solace we can say that the work on our end is done and they are obviously are having a hellacious time coordinating this on their end. So some people at the EPA are probably much more stressed out about this fellowship than we are at the moment. Take it easy everyone.
  2. FWIW... I did email the address provided and didn't get a kickback or email doesn't exist message, I also didn't get a "we received your correspondence email" which tends to be the norm for automated mass addresses like this. Was your guys error message just from mailer daemon or what? Its not like some people got emails and others didn't. No one received anything from receipt.application address. This fellowship hasn't been offered for a year, and I think they are still trying to figure out the process going forward and what it will look like. Yeah its annoying that they didn't send out the email from NCER and that email address provided doesn't exist, but what can you do? I'd just take a nice big breath and relax. Worrying isn't going to increase your chances. Its the summer time and presumably you all like camping, hiking, and the outdoors. Go for a hike, take a weekend camping trip and don't check your email for a few days. Everything is going to be alright. All the applications will be reviewed, and we will hear back eventually.
  3. Looks like past years where data is available there are between 1350 and 1500 or so applications but there are also threads here with hundreds of of posts and at the very least tens of thousands of views. If we make predictions based on the post this years thread it looks like less than 10 people applied
  4. I did apply and do feel good about our chances for the reasons I listed above and the fact that I heard back well from NSF reviewers similarly to you. I guess what one could do if you feel ambitious is dig around on EPA website and correlate activity on Gradcafe STAR Fellowship threads to actual applicants. Last open cycle which was 2013 the thread had 563 posts and over 100,000 views compared to just us two here now. There was some activity at the end of the 2013 thread about the 2015 announcement from applicants who were ineligible or the opening timeline didn't work for them so perhaps some of our suspicions are confirmed?
  5. Who knows? Its tough to say. It seems to be a fairly popular fellowship in the past years with lots of applications and only a few awards. This year it says 55 awards, which isn't many. This year is weird for a number of reasons though... 1.) Its a weird time for a fellowship application cycle and atypical even for this one (which I think is generally a November one) 2.) It wasn't offered last year at all. So perhaps people don't know about it or assumed it went away? Based on discussion threads here doesn't seem to be as much activity or interest this year but again that is just speculation. 3.) Seems you have to pretty on top of it to be aware that its out there. I only found out because I had signed up for EPA notifications. If you aren't up on it, and you're busy you may well have missed it. 4.)Its been open only for a month and literally during the busiest time of year for graduate students trying to finish everything up, study for finals, make summer plans, etc. Anyway seriously your guess is as good as mine. In 2013 looks like there was 1356 applications and only a little over 100 awards but I doubt that many people applied this go around for the above reasons. I tend to speculate that probably not that many people applied this go around. Good luck and let me know when you hear anything.
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