Just chiming in to say that you do not need to be enrolled or even affiliated with a program to get some of these. I applied for Ford Pre-Doctoral and received an Honorable Mention last week, which puts me in a better position to get the actual fellowship next year once I am in fact enrolled this fall.
That was me. Cultural and a lurker here. Hi everyone!
Waitlisted for Princeton, and NYU. Rejected from Columbia. Interviewed at Yale and awaiting decision.