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Anytime!! It could be any day between now and May 1st, but since they normally say they'll let you know two weeks ahead of the next deadline, I am guessing it will be closer to May 1st than to now. Suffering in the wait with you, fingers crossed!

I'm super nervous, because my multiphase project really needs the Wenner Gren!!

Not Yet! Did you get the email letting us know that final decisions would be released really close to the May 1 deadline? Or did you, personally, get any news? Crossed fingers, and wishing us both luck!

Hey, I am not sure, but I do think that you are able to choose the doctor that you go to see; Is there a doctor you can trust that you can ask about the questionnaire beforehand? I found a copy of an old one here: http://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/documents/resources/Pre-Departure Medical.pdf I do think there is more stigma and discrimination about mental health diagnoses in the US than in Quebec, but I am not sure to what degree nor how applied to Fulbright. If I glean any insights from past Fulbright friends that I can share along, I will do. I hope you apply!

Hey~ Good luck to you! And may you have awesome distractions during the wait ?. I don't actually know when first round decisions come...

Awesome Nat-Geo enhancement award webinar today! If anybody missed it but is interested, they will be posting a recording of it to the Nat Geo application instructions page that we were emailed about.

hope is fundamentally humanizing. I say go for it ?

congrats! where in Costa Rica would you be doing research?

Is anyone active in Wenner Gren 2019, waiting on decisions?

no word yet!

Recommended for Peru, research~! wishing everyone well. Does anyone know if the Fulbright-National Geographic still exists?

Hi! Where would you look around Vanderbilt if you wanted to rent a house in the "country"?

Let me know if there are others out there! I would like to do the same--- moving down soon with my fiance, starting a PhD in Anthropology this fall. House-hunting trip on the 23rd of this month. Who else is going to Vandy??

Nashville revival post? I have some questions about the areas and towns surrounding, and an UNUSUAL request: Can anyone suggest a great place to rent a house where we might live rurally and still be able to commute to Vandy within an hour? I will define rural, as I have had more than my share of responses from people who think a cul-de-sac with a tree in the yard counts. LOL. We are from New Hampshire. If you can count the number of trees easily, that's a bad sign-- We don't want to hear traffic, would like a longer driveway set back from the road, with tree cover so that we don't see neighbors, and hope for a small-town feel with a short commute to the city. We have pets that would rather not be run over, and our dogs are farm dogs that chill in the yard while we're gone. So we NEED a yard. Any one have thoughts?

Congratulations AKCarlton!!! Boston is a great city, as I'm sure you know. I wish you the best!! NOWAYNOHOW- An MA in Bioethics sounds really interesting! Are you focused on medical anthropology? Would you be able to do a research-based/ fieldwork-based Thesis on a topic related to your anthropological interests? If so it might help you out in getting into anthro PhD programs. There is no way I would have gotten into programs without having done this MA, and fieldwork, first.

Congrats, AKCarlton!! That is tough to decide without knowing funding... I would hope, if you tell them you have other funded offers, that they would make the offer clear to you so that you can make an informed decision. I am sure it will work out for you, and wish you luck! How's everyone else doing? I'm making a point to keep checking in on y'all through the 15th. Hugs and solidarity to people still waiting on news!

I'll join the chorus. Congratulations. I'm so excited for all of us.

Sarab, did you decide? Haha no pressure. Just rooting for you.

Anyone waiting on WSU: This person just declined an offer from Washington yesterday!! Crossing my fingers for you!!! (This was in the decision thread) Posted 31 March 2014 - 10:07 PM It's official! I accepted at UNLV, and declined at WSU. I let all my POIs know, and my WSU POI was really happy for me and my choice to attend UNLV, and totally understood that it was the best decision for my family. Since I've made this decision I have been very, very much looking forward to moving to a new city (I was dreading moving to Pullman), and have been really happy overall

Holy Universe I cannot believe that they keep people waiting this long. Hugs and major solidarity for everyone still waiting. Keep us posted, and hoping the best for y'all!

Faulty-- Also try Emory and UVA... I know there's someone working on mortuary practices at Emory, and UVA has some people working in Maya regions. I had a similar experience to you at a different school, in that I was applying to do Andean stuff with people focused on Maya stuff. I was hoping that the Maya MA project I'm coming out of would be enough of a connector, but it wasn't. I ended up getting into the best program I could find where people were highly Andean focused, so I think you are absolutely right in your reasoning. That said, I didn't see an official sign in your comments that you had heard back from Vanderbilt yet, and having just returned from a visit there and given my acceptance, I know that there is only one other person FOR SURE so far in my cohort, and the physical anthro person that was accepted took a position on a site dig or something instead, and I think they are trying to have at least three in the department for my cohort...

Thanks everyone!!! I went with instinct about my soon-to-be mentor, who I am very much looking forward to working with. And I can't lie, the funding helps! FaultyPowers-- I am crossing my fingers for you something fierce!!! I hopehopehope they email you with an offer!!! PM me if you want!!!

Yay! Congratulations!!

I wish you the best with your decisions, sarab! Let us know where you end up. I am sure you'll make a great choice

I hear this! I felt the same today, having just decided. But I will officially be attending Vanderbilt University. Music City, Y'all! Thanks, widely, for the support you've all been. Virtual communities are such great phenomena.