mdog3000

Are all my fellow Australian candidates ready for TOMORROW?!?! It's going to be a long day. And if we don't hear, I will explode. Literally. All over the place.

Great to know. I just skimmed through the IRS's page on the fulbright (nice that they have that). My response to all that jargon = haha.

I'm hoping for Tuesday too! (Actually I'm hoping for tomorrow haha). Thank you Marty as well! Additionally, I just had a thought for former fulbrighters. How do you go about paying taxes on the award amount? Do they give you information about that?

Has anybody's acceptance letter talked about what the actual award amount is? I was just examining the cost of living in my respective city in Australia and it is pretty high (a McDonald's combo supposedly costs $9). Does anybody know what kind of stipend to expect? I know it varies between countries.

Hi all, I wanted some opinions on what you thought the chance of gaining very late admittance would be. I'll just start off my saying I was a little unsure of what PhD programs I wanted to apply for in the fall and put it off until mid December since every school I had looked at had a deadline of Jan 15th or later. Well unfortunately one of my top choices, Stanford, had a deadline of Dec. 3 and I missed it. I think I would be a good candidate for them (4.00 GPA in dual degree Biochem/Marine Science, Goldwater Scholarship, NOAA Hollings Scholarship, lots of research experience, Phi Beta Kappa, Fulbright Finalist, and waiting to hear on NSF graduate fellowship). My question is this, if I am awarded both the Fulbright and NSF fellowship and get the professor on board, do you think I could get them to admit me now, even though I wouldnt start until Fall 2015. I need to tell NSF that I have accepted somewhere to accept the award, and right now my only option (for Stanford) would be to accept at another school and then transfer while away on my Fulbright, which is a jerk move. Obviously I still need to receive the fellowship to have this dilemna, but I just wanted to see if you think it'd be possible to get such an exception.

@FB2014Aussie I am also an Australia applicant and I almost had a heart ache when I saw you commented since I havent heard anything. Hope it is tomorrow!

I applied to Australia as a full research grant associated with a university. Had my interview today and the committee said that Australia should hear in approximately 3 weeks.