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DSYIII

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  1. Rejected as well. Good luck to anyone who hasn't heard back yet!
  2. One thing I am unclear on is whether they have a fixed number of fellowships they plan to give out (and thus will wait until offers are accepted to send out rejection emails), or if they will send a fixed number of offers regardless of acceptance.
  3. Personally, I fiind Table 8 the most depressing.
  4. Yeah, for something seemingly so significant they certainly hid it well.
  5. I contacted them, and they said that the 1-course-per-section before starting the fellowship applies, and that I should put 3 of the 4 Sci/Eng courses already taken into "Other Courses". Seems a bit odd, and maybe not something that they would enforce if I got the fellowship, but there it is.
  6. I have a question regarding the POS. In the guidelines for the POS, it states that you may not complete more than 1/3 (including only 1 class from each area) of your POS courses before the start of the fellowship. Does this mean 'by the time you apply' or does it really mean 'during your first year of graduate school', if you are applying as a grad student? For those of us in Science/Engineering Ph.D. programs, it seems odd that we would have to take 2 more Sci/Eng courses in addition to a potentially large number required/suggested of us in our first year.
  7. Hi everyone. I have a question about recommendation letter writers. I know that one of my letters will be coming from my graduate advisor, but I am uncertain of who to turn to for the others. I did not do research as an undergrad, and as a result there isn't really anyone from that institution who could write a compelling letter about me personally. I have spent the past 15 months volunteering in the lab that I am now a 1st year grad student in, and the people who can convincingly attest to my merits as a thinker/researcher are all currently contained within my research group. I have worked closely with 2 postdocs during my time in the lab, and they could likely write detailed and compelling letters about my research and outreach. Are letters from postdocs so devalued by the committee that I would be better off going with a PI from another lab at my current institution who is only somewhat aware of my research, and almost entirely unaware of me as an individual? Any insight would be appreciated!
  8. E/VG G/G G/G Not awarded Reviews were unfortunately not especially helpful. The "the proposed research is not original" line is going to stick with me. I'm not sure if they were saying I plagiarized, or that the research had been done, but both are extremely false. Oh well, time to get published before next year's application.
  9. While I would REALLY like to know my result, I'm not sure I would be able to handle reviewer feedback in my current state of exhaustion
  10. West coast best coast (for obsessively refreshing Fastlane on results night)
  11. 1. Debugging code 2. Worked on book chapter 3. Feel feelings of an undetermined nature
  12. The results release date has caused me more stress than the actual results...
  13. Is anyone else no longer able to see the 2013 award winners and HMs on Fastlane?
  14. In general I feel pretty good about my application. I think I am in a strong position, as I have spent an "off year" just doing research, yet remaining in the undergrad category for the application. While I feel my personal statement could have benefited from a longer track record of commitment to my field, I think my research statement was extremely strong. One thing that concerns me is that the proposed research is quite interdisciplinary, combining elements of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and the life sciences. I am worried that I will get reviewers who are biased against the research because it incorporates other disciplines.
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