lalakey

I applied to DAAD... no idea if it's more/less competitive... I love that they give you "scores" (if you didn't know this, they give you a score of how you did and what was accepted, I applied last year and was rejected obviously). I got like a 6.8/8 (8 was accepted) so I really hope with my cleaned up application this year I'll do better... but as I recall I didn't hear until very late March or early April.

Sigh. If I get this Fulbright it will change the entire course of my life from miserably shitty right now to actually good. I do have a PhD acceptance, though, so I guess I could do that, but I'm not 100% sold on it...

I will definitely ask but I'm pretty sure that part of my acceptance included the "fellowship package" I received, so I'm pretty sure the TA-ship/stipend fellowship will have been "Given out" technically... but I will try

To be fair, the field is quite notorious for just charging up the wazoo (it's an arts degree... so they manage to find people who will pay for it) so a full tuition scholarship is very generous, but I simply can't live on nothing for the next five years. On the website they advertise the possibility of a fellowship with stipend but then in the "intro meeting" the head of the department admitted that fellowships were scarce and that they tried to get people's tuition covered as best they can but could not always offer a stipend.

Yes it was clear that it was full tuition but no mention of a stipend, which I assume would have been mentioned.

Hi all. I'm new to this grad school funding thing, having just sucked it up and paid full price (yay loans... not...) for my masters. Just applied for a PhD and got in (woohoo!) with a full scholarship for five years, but they did not offer a stipend or salary up front, nor a TA-ship. I can't attend without any funding. I live in an expensive city, first of all, and I can survive on almost nothing, but not on LITERALLY nothing. I am more than willing to teach, TA, whatever, and I am happy to make this clear to them. Two questions: is it common to negotiate with schools to get funding? If so, how should I put this? Second, what are the chances of them actually changing their offer? Or is it, they have a set amount of funding, and offered me as much as they possibly have? It's a state-funded school if that helps, not a private institution.

this is really killing me. My life is so up in the air right now

The first time I applied, I was super shy about it and just asked my professors I felt comfortable with if they knew anyone in Germany who would be comfortable supporting my application. I did find someone, but her letter was not particularly enthusiastic; she was mostly doing it as a favor for the professor, and it wasn't much to do with how interested in me she was. The second time, I went on an email blitz and emailed EVERYONE I could possibly find (one at each school I was interested in, not multiple professors; that seemed rude.) I didn't get many responses, as I sent it over the summer, but I got one negative, bordering on rude response, one "I'm not interested but this person might be", and two overwhelmingly positive responses, and one tepid response. The one overwhelmingly positive person just stopped responding to my emails at some point (boo! I had no idea why!) and then the other one wrote me an AMAZING letter. The tepid person did end up providing me a letter but well after the deadline, and I just thanked her and tossed it out because it was way too late for the Fulbright, and it was for a neighboring country that I would have applied for if it weren't for the fact that she didn't respond to my email with a letter until way too late!

Okay, this is going to sound unbelievably stupid, but I don't know the difference between Full Research/Study. I don't actually know what I applied for exactly. I applied to simultaneously study at a Hochschule and also carry out a project that is supported by a professor who would be my primary teacher, as I am a voice student. Sooo... which did I apply for? lol. Just curious because I'm looking at the spreadsheet, and someone applied for my same subject area in the same country So I'm feeling weird about my chances.

Ugh lord, I just went back and read my proposal and it seems so elementary and dumb. I feel not confident at all that I will win in the end!

So who makes the decision now, the committee in the country?? I hope they like me... I like THEM!

Hi! I am supposed to do early 20th century German composers from the Weimar Republic who were on the up and up but were forced to emigrate due to the Nazi regime. I applied as a singer, though, so my research has some performance elements to it.

So ummm how excited should we be, really, if we were recommended? It's not the final say... What are my chances now??

To everyone who didn't get recommended, I didn't get recommended last year and I applied again, paying extremely close attention to what parts of my application needed serious tightening up. It is not an exact science but there's no reason not to apply again especially if you see this as a trial run.

I'm not eta... Trying to go to Germany to do opera research.

Omgggg this is such a weird happiness... Like I'm so happy but also am afraid to be too happy in case I don't get it...

Omg I was recommended!!!!! I can't believe this!!!!

I still haven't gotten an email... Ergh

Blergh, I know this is pessimistic of me but I am really doubting I'll even get into the finals at this point I proposed to reinvigorate forgotten Weimar-era composers who had to emigrate to the US (or elsewhere) due to the Nazi regime, via performance as well as by compiling their arias into an anthology for distribution to conservatories and universities. If I don't get it, I think I just gotta blame competition, because I had a great proposal, great affiliation letter, and a pretty decent interview/audition.

This is really frustrating me It seems unfair to make us wait so long... weep.

Ugh this is really frustrating!! I just got offered a job last week that would mean lots of ~*money*~ in a field sort of unrelated to my current topic of study, but obviously the Fulbright is more important to me-- then whyyyy have they not notified us yet so I can make an educated decision?? UGH!!!

I guess it's good (or bad. I dunno) but I feel much more passive about all this than I did last year. I was so nervous about all this last year that I was sick to my stomach all day... but I was rejected so whatever. lol. I am prepared for a rejection this year

lolllllll we are such a bunch of crazies, deciphering years of notification history to figure out if we got anything...

y'all are confusing me with some of you saying you already found out about whether you were recommended or an alternate? Don't we not find out till March? I'm a musician so I had my audition/interview in December, but I thought we don't find out if we made it to the finals until January...

Also re: meliz90-- I think that's something you'd work out with the school or place where you'd be working/studying. If you rent an apartment that allows cats, then sure I don't think the Fulbright places restrictions on you about your living situation. Make sure you start the process early, though, because she might need to be quarantined (not sure what the process is-- I looked it up for my birds a while ago and it's different for every animal)