arigold36

How do you find it?

EPIK PROGRAM!!! That was my plan b... I'd get on it now though - I hear Seoul slots fill up fast.

I'M GOING TO KOREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's be fair - all speculation, based on past years' notification dates. Do the East Asia and/or Korea specific contact folk have Tuesday/Friday office hours? If so, that might lend something of an explanation to the Tuesday/Friday trend.

If notifications for Korea don't go out today we will have hit an unprecedented time lapse - so all bets are kind of off to me at this point... Coincidentally enough - if they WERE to send out notifications today, it would follow the exact timeline of 4 years ago - exactly 77 days of elapsed time from initial US notification to final results. Seems almost too coincidental for the numbers to match up that precisely. Maybe we'll know before May?

Wow - getting that table in here was a pain... Anyway - hopefully now my last post looks like more than scrambled gibberish.

I couldn't contain myself - went ahead and did some more speculative digging: Application Cycle US Notification Date Day of the week Week # Day of the Year Korea Notification Date Day of the week Week # Day of the Year Time Lapse (weeks) Time Lapse (days) 2009-10 3/31/09 Tuesday 14 90 2010-11 1/29/10 Friday 4 29 4/16/10 Friday 15 106 11 77 2011-12 1/21/11 Friday 3 21 4/5/11 Tuesday 14 95 11 74 2012-13 1/19/12 Thursday 3 19 3/27/12 Tuesday 13 87 10 68 2013-14 1/18/13 Friday 3 18 3/22/13 Friday 12 81 9 63 2014-15 1/28/14 Tuesday 5 28 98? Average=> 91.8 105? Average Time Lapse 10.25 70.5 So - since we are currently only 9 weeks out from US notification this year, I guess it is a bit premature to be getting in an uproar about the timing. If you take the average time lapse of 70 days and apply it to US notification this year, you get the 98th day of the year, which happens to be next Tuesday - consist with the Tuesday/Friday notification pattern. But then, if we figure for an 11 week waiting period, one might put stock in the 105th day - which would be completely consistent with the 2010-11 dates insofar as it would be 1 day earlier than they found out that year, and US notifications went out a day earlier this year. Thoughts?

Solid idea - I'd be too paranoid at this point that in attempting to set that up I would make some kind of mistake that ends up rejecting all emails containing certain words, like "Fulbright". Lol...

@USA.J Yo - how confident are you in the credibility of this source? You've got me wigging out at work here even more so than usual....

Another potentially worthwhile line of inquiry for further date speculation would be to see if there is any pattern in the number of days/weeks various countries waited between initial first round notification from the US, and sending out their own notification. For example, in 2012 (for the 2012/13 grant cycle...) US notifications for the first round went out on 1/19/12 - a date in the 3rd week of the year. Notifications for Korea (for example...) went out on 3/27/12 that year - a 10 week time lapse. Now, I haven't tracked down enough US notification dates to be able to see if there are grounds for a pattern here, but if we figure a minimum 10 week lead time between US notification and say, Korea's notification date, then given this years' US notification date of 1/28/14 (5th week of the year) - we might be in a situation where we aren't going to hear until the 15th week of this year, giving us potential Tuesday/Friday notification dates of April 8th and April 11th respectively... Anyone with some extra time on their hands feel like following that one up? lol...

There's always Friday... Or next Tuesday... Assuming they stick to the Tuesday/Friday pattern... I'm not sure if the fact that we are invariably getting closer to an actual decision makes me happier, or more anxious...

I'm implying that looking very closely at the trends from past years, the 25th (24th is next Monday...) would seem to be a probable date. But your guess is as good as mine...

Ok - bout to drop some numerology here to try to add some rhyme to the reason(ing) of our dear friends on the Korean selection committees. 3/22/2013 - 81st day of the year, in the 12th week of the year - a Friday 3/27/2012 - 87th day of the year, in the 13th week of the year, a Tuesday 4/5/2011 - 95th day of the year, in the 14th week of the year, a Tuesday 4/16/2010 - 106th day of the year, in the 15th week of the year, a Friday 3/31/2009 - 90th day of the year, in the 14th week of the year, a Tuesday 4/1/2008 - 92nd day of the year, in the 14th week of the year, a Tuesday SO - it looks like we can all stop compulsively checking our emails unless it's a Tuesday or a Friday. Now if we want to read WAYYY too far into this, one might make something out of the Tu, Tu, Fri pattern, and use that as a basis for assuming that we will find out on a Tuesday... The trend seems to be for week 14, but next Tuesday, the 84th day of the year falling in week 13, would fall nicely between the past two years' notification dates... Hooray for baseless speculation!!!

Hahaha, yeah, truth. I'm going to save the major freaking out until closer to the end of the month, but yeah, waiting is getting increasingly brutal. My current job contract ends in May, and while I should almost certainly be making back up plans, it's just ridiculously hard to get emotionally invested in a job search with this looming uncertainty... #fulbrightproblems

Hi fellow SK ETA hopeful. When you say that you "read" that we should hear back around late March, did you actually find some literature out there that stated we should find out in that window, or are you basing that (as I have) off of the data that someone else from this forum collected and elegantly organized in the spreadsheets? (Sorry if that sounds abrasive - just trying to figure out if there is extra info that might help us alleviate some uncertainty here that I haven't come across in my obsessive googling about this yet)