DSYIII
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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.
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Page 13 of http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ascr/ascac/pdf/reports/ASCAC_CSGF_Report_2011-Final.pdf was super depressing. The acceptance rate is so astronomically low!
Personally, I fiind Table 8 the most depressing.
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Ahh, I see it now. It's in the FAQ. Strange how they state this only in the FAQ and nowhere else....
Yeah, for something seemingly so significant they certainly hid it well.
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I also applied during my first year of graduate school. I just wrote about the project that I thought I was going to focus on even though I hadn't been formally proposed it at the time. Personally, I think it's important to be able to identify specific issues/problems that computational science could advance. You don't have to get into the nitty gritty details but do go into some specifics beyond your general subfield. An example could be in machine learning (not my field), the algorithms for deep learning/neural nets have been around since the late 80s but it wasn't really that useful because they were too computationally expensive to be practical. However, deep learning is all the rage nowadays because GPUs, among other things, have made the problem computationally tractable. So the essays could discuss how these computing advances would allow you to study problems that were previously deemed too expensive. This is essentially the approach I took in my essays, just applied to my field/research problem.
As an aside, an issue in computational science is that we've got a ton of computing resources but there are a lot of fields that don't utilize it. The DOE would love to see new applications or questions tackled with their vast computing resources.
Does it? You should probably ask Krell about that one. Personally, I completed all my Sci/Eng requirements before I applied and completed my Math requirements before starting the fellowship - I applied during my first year.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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West coast best coast (for obsessively refreshing Fastlane on results night)
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1. Debugging code
2. Worked on book chapter
3. Feel feelings of an undetermined nature
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hahahahaha
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Is anyone else no longer able to see the 2013 award winners and HMs on Fastlane?
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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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yep! for one of my review sheets from last year, I'm not sure if he even read my proposal/CV/etc. He commented that I have no publications (false) and that all my research experience is in neuro (3/4 of my past labs have not been in neuroscience), etc.
Thank you for shattering the illusion that my chances of winning correlate to the quality of my application...
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So it sounds like awards are distributed pretty evenly amongst years of grad school experience. How do they divvy awards amongst various fields of study? It seems like some fields may provide more immediate benefits by performing the proposed research, while in some other fields the comparative benefit of receiving external funding is much larger.
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I've heard that after the awards are announced some of the HMs get bumped up to winners because some folks accept other fellowships. Does anyone know how that works?
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Can we all go back to worrying about when they're going to announce winners yet?
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I'm a first timer, so i'm not entirely sure how this is supposed to work. If people are actually getting emails, is it safe to say this is a large break from historical precedent?
DoE CSGF 2014-2015
in The Bank
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Rejected as well. Good luck to anyone who hasn't heard back yet!