I hope not. haha.
Not to specifically be suspicious of Redditors, but no one on here has posted anything about their status being changed. And I find it at least somewhat unlikely (but possible) that none of us (on this forum) were chosen for the fellowship.
Yeah, that's true. Perhaps this is a (or likely the final) pre-announcement maintenance.
Could make sense, as the others may not have been specifically for the GRFP site. (I don't remember seeing site-specific announcements over the past couple of weeks.)
Probably not. This is possibly when they enter the scores/feedback/results lists, into the FastLane system. I'm pretty sure the award winner lists from past years has been taken down, a week or two prior to the announcements, in years past.
Looks like another maintenance message!
03/16/16 -
FastLane will be unavailable from 11:00PM ET, Friday, March 18 to 8:00AM ET, Saturday, March 19 for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Maybe this will be for more data entry, etc? I've heard that the previous lists of honorable mentions/fellows goes down for about a week, prior to the announcement of the current year's awards. This might be that...
I'm declining UCSD and withdrawing from a Fulbright grant competition.
Wonderful opportunities/institutions, but not the best fit for my long term academic/career goals.
Do you think you would be happy at the school you were accepted to? And do you think it would it be good for your career and future?
If so, then accept the offer.
Do we know if 1st and 2nd year students will still be evaluated separately? Or will they be lumped together into a single group? That could make a huge difference for strategy.
Q-166
V-168
W-5
2 acceptances to top 12 social/personality programs.
Current undergrad senior, several posters, and some pubs in prep, but no actual publications yet. Lots of tutoring/outreach work.
The best thing you can do now is just push forward and hope for the best! (:
You've accomplished a lot to make it this far, and it'll all work out in the end.