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Congrats to our Belgium finalist!!!

Can confirm not everyone is interviewed.

I know! I was kinda shocked.

Hey all, so the EU research grant and Denmark Research notified today. OMG. (My FPA is keeping us all posted).

A friend was notified!

I think you have two weeks but people withdraw after that.

Austria notified!!!!

Thanks! I'm definitely going to use the most apologetic language possible, because I'm sure they are dealing with 800 of these emails, but I'm already pushing the deadline to withdraw now and even though my program is understanding, it can only extend so far.

Honestly, if I don't hear by March 31st, I'm emailing to ask for an update. I know it may bug them, but I have to tell my program pretty soon if I'll be here to teach next year and having a better estimate than "before May" would help.

Hopefully people hear today! Looking through the spreadsheet, it looks like today and tomorrow would be popular notification days as well as next week.

I didn't end up applying this year, but it should be on the portal and they should contact you by mail. However, they never follow one protocol (which is why I didn't apply; I couldn't stand their application system), so idk what they'll do this year.

I, too, wonder what pretty quiet means. Not a ton of disturbances so results will come out sooner?

Thanks for the positive thoughts Also yes: I hope we hear soon. I care more about results starting than getting mine first, at this point! I just want people to start winning so we can celebrate!

Yeah, the bulk of mine are private, which tends to be the issue. But they were through Sallie Mae (now Navient), so hopefully for Research they'll defer. If not, I'll have to think of something.

The issue isn't just that many fellowships are geared towards academia rather than professional degrees; it is also that, assuming you're starting in September, you'll have missed all the deadlines for the ones that would fund it. Check out profellow.com. That's the best website I've found for scholarships that aren't for grad school in the traditional sense.

Yeah, as I said, it doesn't necessarily count for all loan providers. I'm just giving a heads up, because I know I'll have to deal with it and I'm sure others will too. My friend was an ETA in Germany and wasn't allowed to defer her loans. Fulbright helps with the process, but if the loan company doesn't grant the deferment, Fulbright can't do anything. I'm fortunate in that I could probably pay my loans out of savings, if needed, or stay enrolled at my uni full time (do independent studies or something) to keep the loans in deferment, but I'm not sure. It'll be my first question if I'm fortunate enough to have to deal with this problem.

The ETA doesn't count for loan forgiveness for all providers because you aren't studying. My friends had issues with that.

Oh I agree. I don't know if I can take it much longer.

If you look at previous Iceland years, they notified in April. It seems last year was very early, so who knows if there is actually a delay or if Iceland's release last year was just abnormal.

Most European countries don't have it.

It'd be great if we all could just go ahead and get a winner already! I want to start congratulating people. . .

I'm waiting on Germany Research. Study/Research tend to come out before ETA and S/R have tended to hear the third Tuesday or Wednesday of March, so I'm hoping next week.

My money is on Belgium!

Speaking of loans, what are peoples plans for that (assuming anyone else here has them)? I know for study they can be deferred because you're enrolled full time, but I know some loan providers don't allow deferments for ETAs. I'm not sure about research, which is what I'm applying for.

You need to email DAAD or call on Monday when the offices are open. It is possible that they just updated the wrong ones.