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.

I think 5 represents total applications to Armenia, not the number that the US recommended.

Looks like Hungary sent out decisions today, according to the spreadsheet!

As a comment to award amounts, some of the country-specific Fulbright websites parse out exactly how much recipients will be receiving. Not sure if this helps with Australia though! (eg. http://fulbright.es/convocatorias/ver/1399/postgraduate-research/2014-2015 )

What happened to the spreadsheet? I think someone deleted around 100 rows?

Some of the changes are staggering. Malaysia ETA applicants more than doubled from 155 to 366! And same with Brazil... 169 to 401. Any reasons? Also, curious on the Spain research grant (just because it's what I applied for). The applicant pool has shrunk from 143 to 97 in two years, but the amount of grant recipients has been pretty stagnant. Any ideas on what would cause the decrease? Thinking apolitically here (I don't think the European debt crisis would *really* be the contributing factor), we applicants had to write our statement of grant and our personal statements in both English and Spanish, and if that's a new thing, I could see that as being a turn-off to applicants because I didn't see that requirement for other countries. Just bouncing ideas now.

Congrats on France, Neurona, and thanks for that link, miri! Cheers!

Looks like the Netherlands sent out emails yesterday too, according to the spreadsheet. And oddly, looks like there's one Romania decision right in between the Netherlands as well.

Sorry to hear that, Bluefit. I can't imagine going after one spot. I wonder when the earliest notifications this year will be. Last year, Indonesia began on February 22, and we had quite a few big countries like the UK, Colombia, and India all by mid-March.

Message sent.

I was recommended for full research in Spain. I just had my official sealed transcript sent to the Fulbright office in New York, per the email. Does anyone know if we will receive confirmation when it arrives? I've had issues of transcripts getting "lost" in the mail before, and that's not something I'd like to deal with again...