Photogeographic

I've been lurking this forum for a while. I decided to hold off on applying this year (After many failed attempts to get a Fulbright) and will be applying this coming fall. I have a background in photography and (documentary). For photo focused applicant's how did you decide on the schools, you applied too? (I know this answer will vary depending on applicant but I am curious to hear different reasonings) Did your applications/portfolio very vastly depend on the school at all? Any advice for a future applicant? I have a million more questions but I'll stick with those for now. Good luck to all who are waiting to hear back from schools and those who are in the stages of interviewing!

Its always my assumption that they send out the notification at the end of the day so they don't have to avoid a rush of comments/calls/emails etc. but I could be totally wrong.

So true. You could have a great application and not get picked because of who knows. Everyone should feel proud for even applying.

Totally had a dream last night that I didn't get semi-finalist status but also the results were written on a concrete wall!?

Hurrah!

https://us.fulbrightonline.org/information-for-recommended-candidates This is where the mentioned quote came from in the post above.

I have been told that half of the applicants selected as semi-finalists will be selected as finalists.

This is one of the reasons why some people are thinking the 30th also two different people said on two different accounts they heard from their FPA's that there would be no mid-January notifications and would be the end of January. But who knows hopefully we will hear sooner.

Same.

Thats my hope too!

For the first round all applicants are notified by email at the same time. Last year the subject line was something like Fulbright U.S. Student Program Application Status.

I worked in Kenya for a while back in 2016. Congrats on being a Boren scholar! Your ETA experience sounds like it would be awesome. Good luck!

I'm hoping for the 19th as well! But I suppose I'm guessing the 30th. GUH. Also any other Indonesia applicants?

Yeah, I am so curious to see when we actually find out because one of the PDF's on this page ....https://us.fulbrightonline.org/country-review-resources It says we will be notified by Jan 30th. While normally they do usually always say we will hear back by Jan 31st as a general notification. When normally see with this PDF the actual date before we find out. Last year the 2017-2018 version of this page told us we would be notified by the 17th and we found out on the 18th. https://us.fulbrightonline.org/application-review-commissionpost I wonder if in fact we will hear back right before or on the 30th. Hmmmmmmmmm

I think this sounds amazing!! Good luck