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For those of you in the dissertation writing stage or getting ready to begin, the NaNoWriMo Rebels group might interest you: http://nanowrimo.org/forums/nano-rebels/threads/252281?page=1 Here's more information about NaNoWriMo: http://nanowrimo.org/ Happy writing!

Sociology folks, check your status in Fastlane. Mine was updated as declined, with reviews attached.

Anyone gotten word on Sociology?

Nailbiting, thanks for the reply. I'll keep my fingers crossed for both of us! Boomer, thank you for the information! Congratulations again on getting the grant, and best of luck with your research.

For Boomer and others who applied to Sociology, has your status in Fastlane changed? Mine is still listed as pending. I'm just wondering if that means anything.

Congratulations, boomer! That's fantastic! No word yet for me, so I'm guessing its' a no. :-/

Based on my obsessive rifling through this forum, I see that previous applicants were notified 7 weeks after the external peer review began. (Ebuckner on this forum posted that in 2011 review panels May 5-6, and applicants were notified June 24.) So, using that as a model, I imagine we won't hear until June 30. Oh, the torture!

Nope, unfortunately. Fastlane says external peer review began on 5/12/14. My proposal status just says: "This proposal is currently being considered by the above Program. Consideration of proposals usually requires up to six months."

Does anyone else who's waiting to hear back on Sociology still have a status in Fastlane listed as "Pending?"

Have any alternates been notified that they have been bumped up?

So, are there any fellowship finalists who are thinking of turning down their awards? Or, do you know of anyone who is opting not to accept it? Are there people who received multiple awards who might turn the Boren down if they don't get the amount of funding they requested? Just trying to get a sense of the chances for alternates to get bumped up...

Whoa. What happened to the spreadsheet?

I got alternate status, as well. It seems like there are a lot of alternates. Do they list how many anywhere?

I either read on their website or heard on one of the webinars that Boren doesn't have country quotas like some other fellowships, like Fulbright. So, the number of awards for a given country is based on applicants' interest in that country in a given year. That being said, their website also says that the regional committees forward a set number of applications for their region onto the national committee... I wouldn't say you're competing with other applicants in your chosen country, but perhaps in a sense with other applicants for your region during the application review by the regional committee. If you've made it onto the national review committee (and let's hope the dates email indicates that), my guess is that you'd be competing at that point with the portion of the general applicant pool that also made it to nationals. Fingers crossed! p.s. Total tangent, but when as I wrote "nationals," I couldn't help but think of this...