padthai234

I meAn often is a relative term, but there is precedent. It sucks, but this is also a state dept program so they tend to walk a conservative line, and they understandably want to avoid any evac crises

Unfortunately they often just cancel. It has happened more than once to grantees in middle eastern countries. I think it has to do both with the fact that most projects are not immediately transferable (topically) and with how funding works. :-/

a long biblio doesnt necessarily help, nor does a short one necessarily hurt. i dont think it's something to stress over. focus on the meat of the app, unless you got any specific comments about your bib

Was just notified I'm an alternate :/

Someone should email and ask if they plan to deliver results before the next round...

Someone should email and ask if they plan to deliver results before the next round...

seriously... is it possible they wont tell us today?

how can we find the actual stipend amount for what our fulbright is = to in our country?

weird my panel started 3/24 and... nothing. when does it become appropriate to email. (sorry for the negative news, but it is one tough grant, and at least they were prompter than normal)

I 100% agree with secret ninja

thats the deal with my country right now (perhaps we're the same).... i emailed the regional guy and he said they just... had made their decisions on ETAs but not the research grants... even if it's the same people on the in-country committee, i imagine research grants may take longer and/or involve more debate (depending on the country and the project). it's super lame though.

August?! They've already started panels for the winter deadline! Have you checked with Mantz???

No - unfunded (for a phd program at least) means no fellowship or guarantee of teaching so that you have money to live. It doesn't have to do with your project, which usually a dept requires you to find outside funding. So funding = covered for 3yrs of coursework, find grants for research, come back and have 2 or so more years guaranteed teaching. You need to know whether that 18,000 is your living stipend ie income or goes toward tuition

for my country they've sent out ETA but not research because... they haven't recieved the research results yet. so i think the delays can happen all over the place. i highly doubt the shutdowns had much to do with it, this is just how granting goes. all the competitions have gotten slower and longer over te past few years because all of these agencies are dealing with increased demand and increasingly limited funding. fulbright will getslower if the cut goes through (but still exist... in grant terms for a program this big 30 million is not a death sentence, just sadly limiting), but look at NSF? they're proposing to cut about ~40% of the budget for social sciences. and the fulbright hays, we all know what a shit show that grant is. this is the way thing are these days... #shouldvemajoredinweaponscompsortech

just to keep this all in perspective, for anyone applying to grad school at any point, or in grad school but not at the grant season phase. this waiting becomes your life. you have no control over the response dates. it's a dictatorial system. and when you don't get grants... you have to do the whole thing over! waiting is pretty much half the game. you have to cope and not obsess, because it's a huge part of 3rd/4th/5th years of any PhD program (and then you've got writing fellowships, postdocs, and actual jobs...)