Nrrrdgrrrl

Technically, according to the website and round 2 letters, we could hear as late as mid-June. Although they generally have gotten results back before the next deadline, they leave themselves plenty of room for that to NOT happen. I'm praying this isn't one of those times...

Feels like this long...

Hey, Wenner-Gren....

This is basically what I'll be doing all day today...

Awesome,

Any votes that tomorrow is the day?

HAHAHA. I keep thinking that, of course, they probably have all the reviews back, and they're just waiting around to get them into emails to send to us. But every day we wait is another day we don't have to either prepare for our research, or to revise for May 1. Seriously antsy...

Looking at the last few years' results, I think the reviews come out around the same time (maybe within an hour or two). An email is send either telling you to reapply, or asking for updated budgets. If you get the request for an updated budget, you get the official letter via snail mail about a week later...

If this is for a teaching or research assistantship, it is most likely that they will cover tuition and health care, PLUS your stated stipend. That's generally how it works... My TAship is paid during the regular academic year, with summer as a separate time period (and therefore separate from regular funding). I'm relatively certain this has to do with the way universities set up their fiscal calendar. However, it sounds like your offer includes something for summer, so this might be a question best posed to someone in your program...

I think it's possible, but personally, I'm glad I didn't do that! My exams were the most difficult and stressful thing I've ever had to do...and took up at least 12 hours a day for about 4 months solid. But I had 3 exam papers over the course of a week, in 4 hour chunks...a total of 150 sources, and 34 pages written altogether. It's your call, but if you can avoid it, I think that's probably best...

Yes, of course it does...the worst part of this process is waiting. And waiting. And waiting...

I'm relatively certain that, barring any extreme circumstances, they make their best efforts to get reviews back before the next deadline. However, they've cut it close in the past...like a week or less. I'm hesitant to email, especially because first round notifications specifically say not to...

I am starting to think you may be right...though it pains me to think that way!!!

My reviews for my (rejected) NSF were so strange. I even got one "poor", but the reviewer critiqued me for not bringing in literature that I think is completely irrelevant to what I'm trying to do. Here's hoping for some W-G news today!

Another hopeless day?

I have a book review due to a journal on Friday...but that hasn't stopped me from checking my email every 4 minutes!

My advisor keeps telling me that once you get any kind of external funding, it is always easier to get more...such a silly system we're operating within!

Better knocked out quickly. I applied in August, and didn't get the unofficial rejection until mid-February, and never got the official news. I only found out that reviews were finally up in mid-March because of another forum. With that kind of lag, and the seeming disorganization, I'm not sure it's worth my effort to reapply... But it doesn't matter, because W-G is going to give us all lots of money!

I finished and defending a few weeks ago, and I am still recovering, emotionally, mentally, etc. But, I will say, once you're through them, you immediately forget just how painful the process is...it's like giving birth. And we are asked to birth some seriously hefty brain-babies in the exam process. YOU CAN DO IT!

I'm with you there...my estimate is about 20k for my international research, and probably 10k for local. C'mon, W-G, give us some cash...we'll do amazing things! In 2012, first round notifications came later than normal, and final notifications were still April 9th! But since it's so late, I imagine we're out of time for today...

I fear we are running out of hope for today...

I would say so. Which givs them a little time still. Holding out!

Really? Ugh. Well, hopefully they hurry up

I am still holding out for today. I don't think I can survive another week, and it would be the latest that results have gone out in many years... My whole project will have to change without this funding!

I'm already planning a celebration, so it would be very silly for me NOT to get it. I have a feeling that today is the day. I have to go teach (and I'm having my annual teaching evaluation!), so hopefully I can distract myself with that until the news arrives. Good luck, everyone!!!