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.

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.

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!

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

Accepted to Spain too for full research grant!

Accepted to Spain too for full research grant!