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Gotcha, thanks! I haven't received an email so obviously I'm grasping at straws before the end of the day and all of the award emails have gone out bwahaha.

Omg wow, congratulations!!!!

Indeed, still waiting and hoping! As I mentioned above, from what I can gather, decisions usually go out around 3 PM ET. This is also the second Monday of April which, as I mentioned above, was the usual release date prior to 2020 (again, from what I can gather anecdotally from people who have posted information).
 
So, fingers crossed!

Through 2019 at least though, I’m seeing the second Monday of April as the release date, but you could be right after 2019.
 
Also, I’m seeing release time as about 3 PM EST.
 
Could be wrong, but this is what I’m seeing from old grad cafe posts!

Oh I sure hope so!

Just got news that the department of education notified awardees (schools) that they have won funding. As of now, as far as I understand, schools are waiting to hear the details of the funding, including how much they’ve won (so, students have to wait a bit longer to find out if the FLAS award is coming their way).

130 double spaced pages (except footnotes and bibliography), 3 chapters along with an intro and conclusion. Normal formatting requirements, so word count was 20-25k I believe, can't remember if that included footnotes and bib (but the page count does). School expected around 100 pages, but more was acceptable, and I had a fairly large topic.
Edited first two chapters into a book chapter being published this year. Edited third chapter into journal article that is currently being reviewed. 

I have had enough of the bullying by @Telkanuru, @Sigaba, and others. They have been condescending and abusive and are doing a disservice to the applicants just trying to get advice.


 
I can’t imagine that the institutions where these bullies study would in any way condone what they have been doing. I have decided to make an example of Telkanuru. Therefore, I have emailed the following people at Brown - Amy Remensnyder, Robert Self and Christina Paxson about the abuse with relevant links.

 
If there is any more bullying, I will notify other institutions about the despicable behavior of their graduate students. Sigaba and the others, you have been warned.

I don't know if you actually did this or if this is a joke, but if you're for real, this is extremely childish. If you don't like someone's behavior on a web forum, you can complain to the moderators or simply stop reading.

It would be nice if this topic would get back on the rails. Honestly, most people are here to discuss the application season, results, etc. Nobody really cares about this petty argument. Take it to PM, please.

If you got into the University of Happyland or the College of the Golden Ticket, would you be saying that the process is arbitrary or centered around socioeconomic factors beyond your control?
Yes, you are competing against others who have advantages that you don't. Some of those advantages were earned, some were inherited, and some were obtained at others expense--maybe even yours. Some of these students took up spaces as "legacies" while more worthy individuals were told "sorry, we're full."
At the same time, you are competing against others over whom you have advantages. And some of these students got offers that you didn't.
All of these factors, for the time being at least, are completely beyond your control. What is in your control is how well you maximize your potential as an aspiring professional academic historian. How does questioning the efficacy of the process and the integrity of the people making decisions help you get to where you want to go?

It would be nice if this topic would get back on the rails. Honestly, most people are here to discuss the application season, results, etc. Nobody really cares about this petty argument. Take it to PM, please.

I don't get why schools that are alright with unofficial transcripts aren't also alright with self reported GRE scores...if you had to send an official report to wherever you ended up attending (which seems like the process for the unofficial transcript as well) it's not like anyone would lie. Northwestern actually didn't require GRE scores at all which is A++ Given most people don't seem to count them for much maybe more places will follow suit? 

I was just told by the graduate director that they are still in the midst of application season.

It would be nice if this topic would get back on the rails. Honestly, most people are here to discuss the application season, results, etc. Nobody really cares about this petty argument. Take it to PM, please.

I was just told by the graduate director that they are still in the midst of application season.

yeah, I don't want to prolong this argument either, but I do feel the need to point out— I'm not hanging around these forums because I love talking about grad school. I don't. 
but when it was me two years ago, the folks on this forum offered smart, helpful advice, which was invaluable to me in applying and making decisions. so, if there's a way I can pay it forward to new applicants, then I'd like to do that. 
most people are coming from a place of generosity and kindness. there's no need to complain about it.

It would be nice if this topic would get back on the rails. Honestly, most people are here to discuss the application season, results, etc. Nobody really cares about this petty argument. Take it to PM, please.

It would be nice if this topic would get back on the rails. Honestly, most people are here to discuss the application season, results, etc. Nobody really cares about this petty argument. Take it to PM, please.

It would be nice if this topic would get back on the rails. Honestly, most people are here to discuss the application season, results, etc. Nobody really cares about this petty argument. Take it to PM, please.

Like the poster above me, didn't find anything wrong with either one necessarily, but the juxtaposition of these two sentences in the Brown email might be rough for some people. Part of this may be because there is such an emphasis on fit that many rejected applicants chalk their rejection up to a lack of fit, whereas in reality, many applicants may be a great fit but their writing sample, GPA, or GRE is not among the very best.

Like the poster above me, didn't find anything wrong with either one necessarily, but the juxtaposition of these two sentences in the Brown email might be rough for some people. Part of this may be because there is such an emphasis on fit that many rejected applicants chalk their rejection up to a lack of fit, whereas in reality, many applicants may be a great fit but their writing sample, GPA, or GRE is not among the very best.

I use Sente. My main reason was I wanted something that worked on both my Mac laptop and my iPad (and iPhone in some cases, but very rarely). They also give you unlimited space for the cloud. Everything still resides on your devices, but it also resides in the cloud, so if you switch devices everything syncs. I wanted unlimited cloud space as a sure-fire backup plan (I also use time machine and a separate cloud-based backup service... very paranoid lol). Also, I want to keep LITERALLY my entire scholarly library in the cloud (in addition to on my devices), so unlimited was a must.
I don't know if the other products now have these features, but Sente was the only one two years ago that had everything I needed/wanted. I switched to Sente from Papers a few years ago... When I moved from Papers 2 to Papers 3 it lost my entire library (this seems to have been a fairly common occurrence with other people, too!). Maybe they've gotten better since then, but I don't trust them anymore.

Hello, everybody! I know there are quite a few topics like this, but I wanted to share anyway. Also, I know I don't have a perfect score, but I think it's pretty darn good, so maybe someone can learn from my studying method for the GRE.
Little background: Just finished a master's degree in military history. Did a lot of writing, so I did NOT study AT ALL for the AWA. I expect a pretty good score, but just so everyone knows, the AWA will not be in this guide.
I studied for four months while working full time 40-50 hours per week and also working on papers for publication. I spent about 2 hours a day during the week and 4-7 hours on each weekend day or holiday. I don't think it could have been done much faster, honestly, because you can only absorb so much material and not get burned out. It could also have taken longer, if need be, but I was already forgetting material because of how long I was taking, so I don't know. Four months was a good balance between how much material there was... By the end I was getting burned out and not wanting to study, however.
Study Materials Used:
Magoosh Video Guides Magoosh Practice Questions Official GRE Guide Official GRE Quantitative and Verbal Guides Kaplan Premier 2016 (skip this it sucked and was pointless) Manhattan Set of 8 Prep Guides Manhattan 5 pound book Set of 6 Manhattan practice tests (quantitative only) The Verbal Grail LSAT Tests (Reading Comprehension Only)  
The first thing I did was I sat down and watched all of the Magoosh videos. All of them. I don't regret that, but I didn't learn THAT much from them because I had never done any practice problems. Plus, the problems in Magoosh are pretty hard (for quantitative). But, it was a nice introduction to the material, though it probably took up more time than it should have.
Then I did the Kaplan review portions of that book. It sucked. Never picked it up again.
Then I did the review sections and the practice problems of the official guide so that I could see what actual questions looked like and I would know what to discount when I used non-ETS material. This was essential. I did not do any official practice tests. I saved ALL of them for the end because I was not interested in seeing progress... I knew I was progressing by virtue of working so hard and doing so many practice questions (I don't mean it to sound arrogant, but I looked at practice tests as additional practice problems, not a way to gauge what I would actually receive).
Then I did the 6 Manhattan Prep guides and all practice problems (but not the hundreds of problems in the books that teach skills, but are not really in the format of the test). The review sections were good for math. The verbal books (both) were pretty lousy. Just read them, that's it, no practice problems.
Then I did the five pound book, but only the math chapters because Manhattan sucks at verbal. Instead, I did the Verbal Grail book concurrently. It was pretty decent, but didn't really improve my skills. Still worth doing, I think, but its impact was very limited. 
By the time I finished the 5 pound book and the Verbal Grail I decided to finally tackle the Magoosh problems. The math problems are REALLY hard compared to the real thing. The verbal problems are the most similar to the test that you will find, but are quite a bit easier. 
When I ran out of Magoosh verbal problems I was a little distraught. I really needed a good verbal score, not really a good quant score. Also, my weakness was reading comprehension. I had used the Magoosh vocabulary app, but only for a few days... It would have been a pretty good help, but my vocabulary was fine and honestly, the test doesn't really test hard vocabulary. The app is great if you want to be thorough, however, and especially if your vocabulary isn't too large. But anyway, reading comprehension was my downfall.
Then I read some advice from somewhere (can't remember where) that LSAT practice tests had the hardest sets of reading comprehension you can find. This seems very much to be true! So, I got a bunch of the LSAT tests. I did the reading comprehension from tests 1-6. The LSAT was easier back in the day, so I didn't fare too badly. Then I found out that the later tests are harder. So, I did tests 45 through 65. Yes, they were very hard. Each passage is a long passage, so you get crazy experience with long passages and it makes GRE short passages really simple. If you can do decently on the LSAT tests, you will do amazing on the GRE reading comp. I was missing about 1 to 4 questions out of 27 on each LSAT test by the end (down from 7-9 in the beginning). It seems like not such a great score, missing 4 out of 27, but trust me... Basically every question is harder than anything you will find on the GRE.
While finishing up the LSAT tests, I went back and re-did every missed problem in the 5 pound book (quant) and Magoosh (both sections) until I had completed all of them. Also, I re-watched Magoosh videos for topics that I was still not understanding. Then I also did all of the practice sets in the two official guides (verbal and quant). 
The last two weeks before the test I did the ten practice tests that I had (4 official, 6 manhattan). I skipped AWA on all of them, and only did quantitative on the Manhattan tests (subbing in more LSAT tests). I took the full official tests (minus AWA).
My scores on the official practice tests were slightly lower than my official score. The Manhattan quant practice scores were significantly lower (5 points). I did all practice tests timed.
So what worked? Magoosh videos and practice problems, 5 pound book, the three official guides, and LSAT practice tests.
This won't work for everyone, of course. But if you struggle with reading comp, DO THE LSAT TESTS! For quantitative, just keep doing as many problems as possible. You should even review questions you got right (but I never did). 
What would I have done differently? I can't complain about the verbal... At the end I was doing better in reading comp than I was in sentence completion, which blew my mind. Not sure how to fix that one, there just aren't many sources for that stuff. Magoosh problems were closest to the real thing, but most of them were much easier. For quantitative, I heard that doing GMAT problems would really help because they are harder than the GRE (I can't confirm this). I do know that after doing Magoosh quant problems, the real ones seemed so simple. In the end, honestly, I just got kind of tired doing the math and didn't work on the areas that I knew I was weak in, even at the end. I knew my score would be good enough if it was over 156 or so, so I didn't really worry in the end. But I was already confident I would hit 160, so there is that.
Once I get my writing score I will know if I messed up by not practicing that at all, but whatever.
Oh! There is one thing that differed significantly from my practice. The real test is LOOOOONNNNGGGGGGG. In my practice tests I always skipped the 1 hour of AWA and I obviously didn't have a research section... I would say that I wish I had done a few tests under the actual 4.5 hour time constraint, but it was so grueling on test day that I think it may have broken my spirit (sounds pathetic, but it might be true). My energy never flags on tests (I like taking tests lol), but by the last section on the GRE, I was just wanting it to be over. It took a great deal of willpower to maintain focus. I did skip breaks, but I don't really think that affected me. It did force me to stop caring what my final score was. That's not to say I stopped trying, I still gave it my all even at the end, but I finally got over the last part of test anxiety at the very end, just from the sheer exhaustion of the test. I took the GRE back in 2010 (and did almost as well as this time), and it's 3.5 hours was absolutely easily manageable (I even took it after ZERO sleep the night before), but this test was GRUELING.
Well, I hope this helps somebody. I read a post like this when I started studying 4 months ago... It's here somewhere on the forums, the guy got a 338 and wrote up a guide like this. Obviously he did better than I did, but I still think that my little guide gets in a few points that aren't in his (i.e. DO THE LSAT TESTS lol).
Good luck to future test takers! Now, I'm going to go veg out on some computer games or sleep or something that shuts down my mind haha!

I believe this is correct. A few people here are saying that we can't use the dictionary as an authoritative source... That sounds a bit silly to me.
 
Think of the phrase "I couldn't care less." It is commonly spoken as "I could care less." Clearly the second way is wrong (using logic, not a dictionary). Just because it is commonly said the second way it isn't magically correct because the speakers are the guardians of language.
 
If you use a well-established word differently from the dictionary, then you are simply using the wrong word. Yes, languages and words evolve different meanings, but that is not a free pass to call every book a donkey and if you get enough people to use it that way that it is now correct. Appealing to the people is a logical fallacy.
 
In this case, we have a word for what was done here: misattribution.
 
Also... I am a little unhappy with the fact that many people are complaining about this only from the perspective of credit for the source. Yes, part of the reasoning for citation is to give credit to the person who came up with the idea. That is great. But there is an even higher purpose here for using citations. We want to add to knowledge in the world. We do this by coming up with our own ideas and then citing those who helped formulate our ideas from their ideas. This allows people to check the source and  (hopefully) become convinced of our argument. In addition, it adds to knowledge by building a web of sources on our particular topic. If you consult two or three papers that have good citations, you will now be able to locate a plethora of other articles that deal with the subject.
 
Our main purpose for citation is the acquisition of knowledge and contribution to knowledge, not giving personal credit to someone, though that is much appreciated and makes writers (including me) happy.