Neurovivor

Current Fulbrighter in Spain wishing luck to all of you! Remember being in your shoes last year. It's been a lucky year for us in Spain: we got to meet the king of Spain and had a fully funded trip to Morocco. The Fulbright year will be the best year of your lives! Good luck, everyone.

I think my thing was specifically for the Full Research grant, not the ETA.

I got a letter stamped, signed, and sealed straight from my country several weeks ago with instructions on what to do next (basically had to sign some forms and mail them off to NYC and Spain). I should be getting login information to the official Fulbright Spain page that is supposed to have everything on it, when my form arrives back in Spain. Gotta wait till early June for the visa app because you can only apply up to 90 days before you leave, but I should start with the criminal background check I think...? Scanned in my medical form and release form last week as well. And should be doing my official transcript here in a few days. Idk it's all so complicated. Am I doing this right?

Congrats, everyone! Is that all the countries then?

Well, I wrote a letter to my US Senators a month ago regarding my concerns about the potential Fulbright budget cuts, and one personally wrote back today. I encourage everyone else to do the same.

Going back a few pages to the whole living-in-a-country-for-a-certain-amount-of-time question. Just for reference, I got the Spain research Fulbright. I just checked the Spain page, and it looks like it's been totally revamped, at least for the research award (but probably the others as well)! They've clarified a few things and removed a rather silly requirement which I didn't even do on my application ("include all contact you have had with your affiliator"). The descriptions are different from when I applied this year too. Also, looking at the numbers, huge HUGE cutback on total amount of Spain grants next year. Going from 27 research/study grants to 22 (which includes the 4 specific Masters grants) and going from 58 ETAs to 41, which are *only* in Madrid now, rather than being in Madrid and another region (can't remember, but I think the ratio was 41:17, so that region just got totally cut). Back to the question at hand, I've never been to Spain and got the research award, but I do have a background that lends itself to working well in my proposed Fulbright environment. Speaking of, all the finalists at my uni who HAD been to their target country were either rejected or made alternates (I don't know which because those decisions aren't officially released by the school). But then again, n = "very low" for that observation. And congrats to all the other recipients (especially mozartgirl - you keep this thread bumping!) and continued best wishes for the alternates and condolences for the non-selects!

Dates on the spreadsheet are all out of whack... Someone will probably have to reset it, and then we'll lose the Sub-Saharan Africa / Colombia updates grrr.

kbui, I'm so sorry. I've been rooting for you.

Congratulations, Yanders! As for accepting the offer, I received a second email with further instructions from the director of my country. I don't think you reply to the initial acceptance email.

I officially accepted the Fulbright offer to Spain today! Starting to finally feel like it's actually happening.

MINE DID. And congrats to the happy people who also got it, good luck to the alternates, and condolences to those who weren't accepted (I know the feel). Good luck to everyone else still awaiting decisions or hoping to be removed from the alternate list. I ain't leaving this thread, even though I've heard.

Accepted to Spain too for full research grant!

Looks like Poland sent decisions today!

Greece was updated on the spreadsheet. Another country down. Every day stresses me out a little more.