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I changed the whole thing... When I first applied, I was a master's student in one discipline preparing for a PhD program in another. One of my weaknesses was that I didn't have enough guidance at the time to write a strong proposal in my new field. The other glaring weakness was that my master's adviser wrote one of my letters. At the time, he and I had a falling out and he knew nothing about my new field. One of the reviewers actually mentioned how I need to share my essays with my letter writers so they would know what I wanted to do... which I had done... that's how much he didn't know about my new field. I actually got pretty good reviews, just not enough to get anything. That's one tip I learned, if you don't get it, ask for the reviews immediately after its announced so you can address the issues and try again.

Second time applicant, first year PhD student in human-centered computing

Thanks everyone for the good advice and points to consider. ShogunT, thank you for your perspective. It is so easy to develop tunnel-vision and only see my perspective and goals and not really think about the lab I am trying to leave behind. After talking to my co-author, who only had a couple of suggestions, I will make the revisions quickly and send it back to my previous advisor. I guess while my previous advisor won't be writing me letters anytime soon, it would be in my best interests to show the other co-authors that I am professional and see the paper to the end.

Thanks for the quick responses you guys! rising_star, those are good points I hadn't thought of. I am the only graduate student on the paper, first author, and (as is usually the case) completed the analysis and wrote the paper by myself. The project itself, I heard, has been defunded and it doesn't sound likely that anything in the paper will actually be used by the target audience. I am going to talk to one of the co-authors today, but everyone has been trying to steer clear of the conflict between me and my previous advisor and thus I have turned to the wonderful GradCafe community for advice! I am really stuck, because yes, I don't want to give up something I did put a lot of work in. But I also really need to start looking toward my future program that will start in a few weeks and really want this whole process to end.

Thanks fuzzylogician! So, my advisor actually didn't write me a letter of rec. In fact, he turned down requests from me and other people in the department to write letters for fellowships and other awards (which I won anyways without his support). My PhD program is in a different department and different field, so I feel in the long run, not having these publications won't hurt me as it is not the field I am ultimately pursuing anyways.

I wasn't sure where to ask this question, and my google searches haven't really turned up an answer to my problem. To make a long story short, I recently received my master's after a truly terrible graduate program with my advisor that ended with him not even speaking to me during my last semester. Anyways, his whole thing was "every masters student publishes three journal papers" which I considered BS, but still wrote everything he requested. 2 conference papers (one that won an award), 2 poster presentations and 3 manuscripts later, I have graduated and am ready to put all this behind me. The problem is one manuscript hasn't been submitted yet, and I am now getting revisions from the other authors on the paper. I am just so done with this, and am wondering, what is my obligation to these papers now? I am no longer getting paid (I was on an assistanship), 2 of the manuscripts have been submitted, and I am starting a PhD program this summer and will have plenty of opportunities to publish then. Anyone been in a similar situation? Has this been addressed already and can someone direct me to the thread?

Yeah, mine says in review too. Going to contact them and see if it is time to give up.

I can't believe you guys replied! I had given up on this thread, and just checked in today! I haven't heard a thing, good or bad, from NPSC. If I don't hear back this week, I was going to contact them.

Awesome, thanks!

Can I do that through the application portal or do I email someone?

Rejected too. ='( Will try again next year! 2 questions for you guys: - does the Ford provide the reviewers feedback anywhere? I know if you are selected you can access the comments, but will they do that for rejections as well? -anyone else applying for NPSC? I can't find an active forum for NPSC anywhere and it seems to be the most mysterious of all the fellowships I applied for.

I had the same thing with two great reviewers, and one who just didn't support my project. Sadly, this is my last year of eligibility. Congrats to everyone who received it, and good luck to those applying next year!

No dice on NSF GRFP... here's hoping Ford comes through! Good luck everyone!

I am! Fingers crossed, good luck everyone!!

Is this the most current thread for the NPSC fellowship? I notice for the other popular fellowships a new thread is started every year, but this is the only one I could find for NPSC. Anyone here apply for 2016??

Got my tentative offer for Korea today. Had to send in an additional page for my proposal last week though, but I am going for sure now!

I haven't heard anything from Korea. Thought today would be the last day; but I guess they have pushed us back to next week.

Congrats to everyone who got a Japan offer!! I am keeping my fingers crossed for my Korea offer anyone else apply for Korea??