Beingbecoming

Email was from: Cdoble@iie.org and heading was "Your Fulbright Application" ------ I didn't really believe it at first but they copied my program advisor as well. She found out the same time as I did.

Just an email saying I was selected. It was kind of odd everything i've read before about Alternates being upgraded were emails and phone calls. Seems like some more money became available somehow. I hope you get an email soon as well!

Research

I've been upgraded from alternate to scholar.. I'm going to France!

I am thankful that all I'll really be doing between now and august... and after august for the next year..... is .... writing.

Conveniently, May 1st is the opening of the new apps and the one month point from when were were notified. I have too much to do and plan and figure that if I in some stroke of luck get chosen to change to principal, I'll happily rearrange my life, but I'm not at all thinking this will happen. I know it does happen, but we don't even know if we are next in line as it depends on who declines and what type of project they were working on.

Well.. the plus side is you've already done most of the hard work and getting as an alternate you could very well be accepted next year even if you just resubmit the same project and tweak a few things.

Yes, and I announced that here. Exact same time as you were were notified as alternates. Frustrating waiting for May 1st to begin this whole mess over again. I've been notifying everyone that I'd like to re-up for next year and since I passed my prospectus defense in February, I think my application is much stronger now. Will you reapply for France?

At least two of us.......

4:38 PM

This is true but its quite difficult to drop everything in December and move to France for many people. I've heard of this happening with someone who became ill. They left in September or October without much notice. I guess if you can stay flexible good for you. I'll have to sign a new lease and my wife will have to sign another year contract for teaching, so we probably would not be able to pick up and leave with no notice. Good luck!

Got the same email. I guess we will both be waiting at least another month.

Yup

Yes there are at least two others on here for France

I for one am glad that Fulbright doesn't make us take an arbitrary test like SAT or GRE in order to weed out the stack of applicants

I'm anticipating at least another 16 days of waiting. Fortunately I have some other pretty big life-impacting news I'm waiting for that should arrive first to keep my mind off Fullbright

If you are accepted you can accept at most schools and then simply defer for a year if you get a Fulbright. Most schools look at it as you getting that grant increases your value anyway and are happy to hold. I am not sure about other fields though.

France is also competitive but I don't believe they interview.

I think this is probably something to highlight. For me it was my advisor who knew a scholar who had worked with an institution who got excited about the project. I think any kind of inside connections like this (or in your case meeting them in person even better) always allows the affiliation letter to be more personal and probably stronger.

I think it depends on your project. I'm still keeping my diss. advisor in the US, and mostly want research help and finding my way through the labyrinth (read bureaucracy) in the archives. I could see an affiliation taking on a variety of roles though depending on what the researcher's needs are. I'm far enough along that I know what I need to find and what I want to do but if I were going a year ago I would probably need more guidance from the affiliation.

Agree... and, at least in europe... over the summer sometimes people don't respond to emails for months at a time... so ask and get a letter early if you can!

Actually, this is probably something interesting to track on the google doc in the future - what other grants people applied for at the same time as the Fulbright.

I planned my entire project first. That told me what country I was applying for, and what city I wanted to be in, based on where the archives are. Then, I worked with my advisor, who works in the same field as me, to figure out where would be best for the affiliation. I thought both about where would be best for me but also where might look the most impressive for the application. Turned out they were one in the same place in the end. At first I thought about just asking scholars in France whose work I liked to work with them directly, but then I was connected with a bigger cultural institution run by the government. Hope this helps I think it will be different for every person though depending on your project, and what kind of degree/field you are currently in.

Hi Ben - yes I remember you and good luck. Hopefully we will both end up in Europe together (we have friends living in Leipzig and Berlin so if I'm accepted we'll probably be visiting both of those cities at some point as research breaks).

I did give that paper. My diss./potential Fulbright research is on a similar topic coming out of that research. Paris. and you?