shoft_el_ayam

I know how it feels, I applied a couple of years ago and didn't receive it, but I applied again this year with better essay, recommendation letters and volunteer work. never give up and try to even find other scholarships/loans !

what program are you going to in Jordan? Was initially going to egypt but that was cancelled so have to look for an alternate program, perhaps Jordan

I got the scholarship! :-) now to look for an alternate program! congrats to everyone as well! i am still shaking and hoping I'm not dreaming still !!

eww. had a dream about it, hope they know how much they mess us up during this process lol

i actually, everyone here hates you. TOTALLY KIDDING, I think we are all on edge about this, to be honest, i am not as excited anymore, or obsessed, if you will. After I have to change my program and country and the news that budget emails do not really have any direct significance anymore kind of discouraged me. Oh well, all I can do is wait for a couple of weeks and find out where I will end up at the end of this year : ) no matter what, I will take the route that I have always wanted. Is anyone taking classes this semester, how is that going?

I just want the results so I can plan my end of the year LOL I usually plan ahead but I have to wait a couple of more weeks to see where I will go.

welcome , some of us received that letter. we are all waiting for a response and its torturous, I'm pretty much over it hehe we have a spreadsheet in which we record any notifications just for records....yeah we are a bit obsessed lol

cruel indeed. forgot about that stupid holiday, yeah I got the email just about 30 minutes ago, going to have to do some heavy research on my new program, I'm thinking jordan. still have a lot of things to do though

just received an email from Boren requesting a new program , since no awards will be funded to Egypt. basically states IF I have an alternate program, to propose it to them, if not I have until late May IF I am chosen as a recipent.

did u email to ask them? why so early and what notification ? lol sorry for the attack of questions

saw these two documents, I think the second one is about the flagship. my head hurts, I should stop this madness https://www.borenawards.org/document/download/language_proficiency_testing_form_144.pdf http://www.borenawards.org/document/download/language_proficiency_testing_form_flaghip_158.pdf

however, the OPI is for Language Flagship applicants only, not everyone that applied for the scholarship are required to take those. might be a good indicator for the flagship applicants though!

just throwing it out there, I applied two years ago, my app was not really strong and I did not have a Boren Representative that helped me out, I did NOT receive any "budget email" and I did NOT receive the award. do not know if that helps but that is why I was so curious about that budget email that was sent out to some of us

yeah it seems like it, almost everyone got the budget email on this forum, don't know what the correlation is anymore. seemed in previous years it was a strong indicator but at this point I have no idea what to expect since my country was restricted to the scholarship

I agree, I think the staff has a lot on their hands and have not even thought about looking into these threads. I feel a bit left out as I applied for the scholarship well I received the budget email, received the notification that there won't be awards for my country, but I am just playing the waiting game. I am going to have plan A, B, and C at this point. I was obsessing over it a couple of weeks ago but I realized I should take it easy haha i am still wondering why the thread isn't as busy as previous years...its not so hard to find and i know many people applied...hmmm..