jmillar

For me, I'm using 3,4,5. I wanted to finish teaching my first year and during my second year I switched institutions and had a one year fellowship.

Because I just can't focus this week, I've put together a table of past GRFP due dates and numbers of applicants so people in the future can compare the length of time between due date and notification. Data! Due Dates (~# applicants) 2019: Oct 22-Oct 26, 2018 1 2018: Oct 23-Oct-27, 2017 1 2017: Oct 24-Oct 28, 2016 1 (13K applicants) 2 2016: Oct 26-Oct 30, 2015 3 (17K applicants) 4 2015: Oct 29-Nov 4, 2014 5 (16.5K applicants) 6, 7 2014: Nov 4-Nov 8, 2013 8 (14K applicants) 9, 10, 11 2013: Nov 13-Nov 19, 2012 12 (13K applicants) 10, 11, 13 2012: Nov 14-Nov 18, 2011 14 (13K applicants) 11 2011: Nov 15-Nov 22, 2010 15 (12K applicants) 16, 17 2010: Nov 2-Nov 12, 2009 18 (12K applicants) 10, 19 2009: Nov 3-Nov 12, 2008 20 2008: Nov 1-Nov 9, 2007 21 (10K applicants) 10, 19 2007: Nov 1-Nov 13, 2006 22 2006: Nov 2-Nov 9, 2005 23 2005: Nov 17-Dec 10, 2004 24 2004: Nov 4-Nov 6, 2003 25 2003: Nov 7, 2002 26 2002: Nov 7, 2001 27 2001: Nov 7, 2000 28

Likely around 3am-5am EDT. Not sure what time it came out last year.

2014: 3:07 AM EDT 2015: 2:55 AM EDT 2016: 5:05 AM EDT Stayed awake for the first two. Fell asleep for the last and woke up to the email.

I'm having trouble finding a specific thread for 2005. I'm going off the list made 10 years ago on CC. It's possible it came out on a Friday and people first posted about it on a Saturday. 2006 came out on a Thursday, though.

Procrastinating pretty hard here today, so I've compiled a list of release dates since 2001: 2007: Friday, March 17 2016: Tuesday, March 29 2015: Tuesday, March 31 2014: Tuesday, April 1 2013: Friday, March 29 2012: Friday, March 20 2011: Tuesday, April 5 2010: Tuesday, April 6 2009: Friday, April 10 2008: Tuesday, April 1 2007: Friday, March 23 2006: Thursday, March 30 2005: Saturday, April 9 2004: Thursday, March 18 2003: Friday, April 4 2002: Friday, March 15 2001: Tuesday, March 20 References: GradCafe, CC 2006, CC 2007, CC 2008, CC Past List

You can tell we're nearing the end of the season.

Not sure what happened to the Bank section in the last few hours. So much spam recently.

The previous years email contains the decision.

I got a notification from info@nsfgrfp.org .

Asking the important questions. That's why I love this thread.

The GRFP threads here are amazing. For three straight years, I stayed up all night when fastlane went down and read through the growing conversation on the current GRFP thread. I didn't plan on sleeping those nights anyway.

Ruthless

In 2016, I got my letter at 5:05am eastern time.

Last year, any student that had applied their 1st year of grad school, they were grandfathered in under the old rules and could apply again as a 2nd year grad student. If you applied as a 1st year grad in 2017, you can't apply this year.

After the departmental recommendation, your file goes to Berkeley's Graduate Division for final review for admission. For me last year, there were 10 days in between getting the departmental recommendation and the official acceptance from Berkeley. Nothing official came in the mail, but I did get an email and phone call.

I posted the two results in 2017 (unofficial email on January 31st, phone call / official portal acceptance on February 10th). Did you email any professors ahead of time for interviews over the phone? I feel like that's why I heard back so early.

We may not really know until awards are made. However, on page 7 of this document that came out in December ( https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45009.pdf ) it says they requested a budget that would support 1,000 new fellows. This is also seen on page three of this document: https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2018/pdf/46_fy2018.pdf

Yep, and when PIBS sends out your itinerary, you will also get a separate contact from your student host. They will be there to help if you have any questions before you get to Ann Arbor.

I interviewed at UMich last year through PIBS. It was a little overwhelming as each weekend they invite 100 students. I think ~60 get accepted. Research the people you will be paired with during interviews. They submit reviews of you and also the grad students helping out. Being versatile in your research interests helps and it worked in my favor.

I ended up having 4, but even that was a bit too much. It depends on whether your in school, how many classes, teaching load, etc. My biggest problem is that 3 of them were on the same weekend, so I had to ask to reschedule 2 of them. Some schools offer more than one weekend, but this is not always the case. If you get too many, you may have to turn some down.

I did receive an NSF GRFP, which is how I am funding part of my program. The rest is funded through an in house fellowship program at UM. What I meant was I applied to PhD programs outside of strictly Epidemiology to make sure I would not loose eligibility. I still have ties to the Epidemiology department, but my actual department is Bioinformatics. I also made sure my research is more based on evolution, rather than health related outcomes. The interdisciplinary angle will work if you can think of another area other than Epidemiology to be part of that interdisciplinary work. The NSF wording was changed in 2012 to heavily discourage Epidemiology work.

Make sure your area of study is eligible. Any research public health related is usually turned down as they want you to apply to NIH instead. I purposely stayed away from Epidemiology programs for this reason: "Individuals are not eligible to apply if they will conduct biomedical research for which the goals are directly health-related, such as etiology, diagnosis or treatment of physical or mental disease, abnormality, or malfunction in humans and other animals. Research activities using animal models of disease, for developing or testing of drugs or other procedures for treatment of disease, and statistical modeling for which the purpose is diagnosis or epidemiology also are not eligible for support." https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16588/nsf16588.htm

Nothing is official yet, but NSF has mentioned that would be one of the costcutting measures if their budget is reduced by 11%. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/nsf-offers-arm-s-length-defense-trump-s-2018-request http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/how-nsf-cut-11-its-budget

Has anyone who received a Munger contract received their apartment number? Move in is a month away and it would be good to know my shipping address.