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Can you provide the email address you wrote to when asking for feedback? I emailed the person who sent the rejection letter (their email was in the header) a little over a week ago. Haven't heard back....maybe I should be using a different address?

I got my rejection (in California) yesterday, Feb 9th, in the mail.

Anyone hear anything? SSRC usually notifies around the first week of February...

Another applicant here. Hopefully we get the first round news (transcript requests or rejection) this week.

Just checking in here. I applied for a research grant to the European Union. Any other EU applicants hanging around? I also applied last year, but for a research grant to a different country. Good luck to everyone. Hope there is lots of good news around here tomorrow!

A week ago tomorrow (Tues 7/22). I just randomly logged, went to the proposal status page, clicked on my proposal (which had been updated to declined) and there they were.

Huh, that's weird. My was changed to declined and my reviews were there. I just never got an email alerting me to this status change.

Re poli sci log in and check your status. Should be updated now. They just never sent any kind of email prompting you to log in and check.

Still waiting here for political science. I know some acceptances have gone out but I'm still waiting to hear anything either way (I'm assuming it's a rejection at this point). Has anyone else heard anything? I emailed several weeks ago asking about my status and requesting my reviews...didn't get a response.

Still waiting here for the political science January deadline response. My application status also states that it has been under review since May 5th. My colleague who won the NSF (or to be more precise, got the email saying "we are recommending you for the grant) got the email shortly after the May 5 review date. I just want them to get the rejection over with, and more importantly, send my comments.

Still waiting for news from January deadline for political science. I know some acceptances have gone out. Has anyone gotten any rejections? I emailed asking about my status and for my comments but haven't heard anything.

Just wondering if anyone knows how long it takes to get access to comments for a proposal that was rejected.

I did precisely what you are considering. My first round of applications was not very successful. One acceptance off the waitlist at a school ranked 25+. I accepted the place because being somewhere was better than being nowhere. I retook the GRE over the summer before I started grad school, reapplied in the fall, and now am at a top 10. You need to think about what is best for you in the long term, given your academic goals. The market is tough. I knew if I stayed at my original program, I was going to struggle to get a job. Even now, being at a top 10, the market is still going to be tough, but I'm in a better position. I'm getting much better training and my interests are a better fit. I wouldn't worry too much about betraying any future advisor by leaving. First, it's not uncommon for a student or two to leave the program, for whatever reason, after one year. Second, most faculty are not going to invest heavily in a first year student...it's not like the sciences where you are working in their lab for them. In fact, when I told my assigned advisor at my old program that I had been accepted to a top ten and would be leaving he was super supportive. (I hadn't told him about my applications until I got the acceptance).

Congrats on the good news last cycle! I'm just bummed to hear that it takes that long to get a response.

I applied for the Lewis and Clark. Total shot in the dark, but the app didn't require much more effort given everything I've had to do for all my other applications. Do you know anything about when we hear from them?