Hi everyone,
I'm applying for an ETA in Germany right now. I have two questions/concerns.
1. On the award statistics: are there actually more offers than the stats suggest? For example, if about there are 140 awards for the about 400 people who apply for the Germany ETA, but say, 15 people turn down the awards and alternates take their places, then, technically, 155 people were offered the grant. Is that right? (I know I shouldn't be worrying about too hard about the numbers at this point, but, you know, last minute anxieties.)
2. In my personal statement, I write about my experiences with education, mostly as a student but also as a teacher, and what my teaching philosophy (more or less) is now because of these experiences. However, because this is all a part of my "picture of myself" (growing up in a family of teachers, etc.), I don't really talk about my teaching experience (which, believe me, isn't very extensive, either way) in my statement of grant purpose, or otherwise it would be redundant. I do talk about my desire to go to Germany, what I want to do there, what I want to do afterwards, etc. My Fulbright advisor said I should try to switch this around (ex. put more about my teaching experience in the statement of grant purpose), but this is not something I can do, rhetorically, without re-writing everything, which I just do not have time to do. We've been speaking about this throughout the past few weeks, and this was, frankly, brought up pretty late in the game, and I have to submit my final final version of the app tomorrow night, so I may just have to forgo his advice. What do you guys think?
