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Congratulations! I hope you do something worthwhile with it. What is your project about?

May I suggest some yoga and a nice cup of decaf coffee to relax. Maybe a massage, Good luck winning the reward, but if you win I hope you represent the NDSEG better than this with more respect for others.

Congrats on your NSF!

No I am glad that it is after the GRFP date. Some people applied to both and by accepting the GRFP maybe they have to declien this one. I only applied to this one so maybe my chances are slightly better. When is that date?

so CP I assume that means you didn't accept the award yet? If I am offered I am accepting before I exhale my next breath.

looking back at past years, this seems to be the latest that people have been left in limbo.

Well, obviously, if any of us shortlisted people hear good or bad, please post it!

Reviewing the past five years this has never happened that I see. In the past applicants complained that the info came past the April 15th deadline. Perhaps they are trying to get info out sooner even if many of us are in limbo. Lots of wait lists, few acceptance, quite a few rejections. The work you do in the first year on the program can help you when you reapply. They will see more grades, more publications, research projects, etc... so there is no inherent benefit of being a 2nd applicant, but if you used the year productively it can help a lot! good lucck

Agreed! Waiting to hear does mean something!!!!! Sorry it took some rejections for us to know that. Really noticeable maybe, I haven't seen a single bioscience acceptance...

Congratulations Banana!

Well this just disproved my hypothesis! Where did you get that info from?

Well with the facebook page also, that is seven biosciences out of seven with "still being considered" I now feel comfortable that our "Congratulations!" Email doesn't mean anything, just that biosciences hasn't been decided.

So that is four fields that have received 'still being considered" What fields heard yes or no today?

With my THREE data points, I am going to say that biosciences wasn't decided yet... lol

I called and talked to the nice lady. Some categories of the 200 awards from particular type of applications have not been decided. So, it would be helpful if we list what type of award we applied for. I got the "Still be considered" e-mail and I applied for biosciences. I don't think it means anything to my chances of success to get the E-mail. I expect everyone who applied for biosciences got the same E-mail I did. My only small hope is that NDSEG recommended 200 awards to DOD who then had each applicable division basically rubberstamp the award. Biosciences "rubber stamping" hasn't come back yet, but other fields had so they wanted to go ahead and release what they could. So maybe those of us with "congratulations you are still being considered" will be getting rewards. So those of you that got results in any of the 3 categories (yes, no, and still waiting), what was your field you applied for?