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About 30 for Arabic

Made it for Arabic! E-mail says they will announce program site placement in a few days. All the dates for the institutes are online, except for Jordan, which is kind of wonky and says January 1-December 31st. Must be a loooong summer institute! Congrats to everyone who received positive news today! A friend of mine was an alternate for Arabic a couple of years ago, and did end up accepting an award. In my institute last time a few students there said they had been alternates.

Yeah that makes sense Maybe the end of this week at the earliest, but likely sometime next week. Unusual to be a month behind! I wonder if they've finished final selection for some languages, and are still waiting on others. That means some of our names could be sitting in a spreadsheet right now!

Another week it is! I suppose we've waited this long, what's another 6 days? I thought yesterday might be unlikely since they sent out those visa e-mails to some languages. They wouldn't have sent those to all semifinalists if they were almost ready with the final decisions I suppose. Did you all see the posts on facebook? Kind of surprised semifinalists would complain publically (ie with their real names) on fb about the delay before decisions have been sent out.

I applied for Arabic but didn't get an e-mail about a visa. Anyone else here doing Arabic? Did you get an e-mail yesterday like the others? I think the countries with the Arabic institutes (Morocco, Oman, Jordan) are also easy for Americans to get visas. When I was in Morocco, we got our passports stamped and that was it.

Four more working hours left in DC! Will today be the day?

Thanks for checking and letting us know! Holding out for next Friday, but I suppose we may have to wait until Monday the 29th- damn leap year!

True, they will want to give finalists three weeks to decide whether they're going to accept their scholarships. Hopefully this means we'll hear back this week, or next at the latest!

Thanks mrs12! I hope they will send the emails out today. I'm not in the US, but isn't it after closing time on the east coast? Maybe they work late! Good luck to you, and the other posters, and all our lurkers

Got the notification 2 mins ago! I'm a semi-finalist for Arabic! Did people from the other languages hear back yet?

Well, I'm betting today or tomorrow. Looked back at 2014, and we were notified on a Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon (right near closing time, like 4-5pm) in January and February. I think they send out the notifications in the afternoon to reduce the volume of calls they might receive. Though if they make announcements on a Thursday, they'll still get people calling on Friday. Just speculation though! Can't do much else while we wait

I agree it will be delayed- looking at the WPost page, the federal government will be closed today, and metro service limited. I would be very surprised if American Councils expected their staff to come in under those conditions. I also hope we'll find out by Friday!

Could today be the day we hear back? I'm hopeful, but when I did CLS in 2014 all of the notifications were on a Friday, if I remember correctly. Won't they come back from their long weekend, raring to give us some peace of mind?

For the 2014 institutes, the first notifications happened on January 15. The gradcafe threads for previous years of CLS make for entertaining reading

Morocco, what was yours?