northernchild
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I kind of doubt they put much weight into the university you say you're going to attend unless you're already attending/have letters from there.
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1 hour ago, harshingig said:
You people are going crazy. 2017 results have been available for at least 2-3 days so I'm not sure what you are talking about.
I was just stating a fact.
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Current year is now set as 2017; it was 2016 while the 2017 results were not available.
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Woohoo!
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I think if that were the case the 2017 awards list should be back up.
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... if we're lucky
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Yeah, I think that's just further confirmation that they've just been working on the registration/account changes or whatever.
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10 minutes ago, siliconchins said:
Wouldn't that mean they would wait until this coming Tuesday? Seems kinda strange that they would buck the trend of releasing on Tues/Fri.
Would be in line with the government ‘s recent trend-bucking initiatives.
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Seems pretty unlikely at this point, especially since there's an alternative explanation for the maintenance announcement with the upcoming changes.
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It would've been really surprising had they responded, "Yep, looks like the results will be out on ______".
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Agreed, and the strongest evidence would be an announcement directly on the GRFP home page.
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9 minutes ago, thebest said:
But if it IS related, I don't see how the current announcement (Friday night to Saturday noon) suggests a Friday morning announcement IF the 2017 results suggested a Thursday night to Saturday morning maintenance schedule. Based on this, if it is related, shouldn't Saturday morning be the morning we hear back. Glad y'all are as weary as I am. Best of luck all.
If it is related, we would need a maintenance announcement for tonight to tomorrow morning. Either no maintenance announcement and results tomorrow morning or results on Saturday morning would go against the strong prior of Tuesday/Friday and maintenance night before to morning of.
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7 minutes ago, grilledcheese1 said:
Wouldn't the Thursday maintenance announcement be made before the Friday maintenance announcement, though? Or both would be made at the same time? This seems to me like a standard announcement and i'm betting on results next Friday, or maybe April 3rd or 6th if we're unlucky.
I agree: it's more likely that both announcements were made at the same time than that people missed the initial one and only posted when both were up.
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So assuming the order in that post was the same as the order on NSF alerts, the Friday to Saturday alert was posted prior to the Thursday to Friday. Perhaps there's still a chance!
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Maybe they've been watching these threads and decided to go against the Tuesday/Friday expectation
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26 minutes ago, AnaChem321 said:
been in my own bubble of research in socal and was like huh is it supposed to rain or something? hope everyone is staying safe on the east coast!
lol, yeah. i live on the west coast, and my half-awake thought was "well, it is raining..."
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10 minutes ago, engineerwoacause said:
Lol @ the first reply on the reddit post
“I smell BS”
And yet that person also commented "A colleague from National Science Board (NSB) that is a part of NSF says the awards will likely be announced on Friday morning" on the other thread...
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Also, why would NSF tell the PI (presumably a reviewer) when the results would be posted? Doesn't seem like they would need to know.
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the reddit "NSF insider" deleted his/her comments
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lol, I have a visualping monitoring the NSF alerts page, and it just emailed me... to let me know they unhighlighted the 9/29/17 alert. :<
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I really hope it's tomorrow or Tuesday, but that alert is the same one as last Saturday. Based on previous years, it seems like it's typically a different timeframe (e.g. 10pm-5am).
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28 minutes ago, nebulasector7 said:
First off, congratulations!!
Second, I would definitely investigate funding since that can vary from program to program. And I would see the flexibility of the program, like could you still take neuroscience classes and work in the neuro labs you are interested in?
IMO, I would take the invite and check out the program. People who work as neuroscientists get all sort of degree titles but that doesn't make them any less a neuroscientist. Considering the money you spent to apply to places and the prospect of taking another year to apply, do you personally find it worth it? Personally, I don't think so. If you end up liking the program and get to do the work you want while getting paid, I think you should go for it! I think it is fairly normal and totally worth at the very least checking it out. this is uc berkeley after all!!
Thanks for the advice! I accepted the invite right away because the trip is fully paid for(!), and based on their webpage it's fully funded and gives a stipend (just a matter of how much). I also felt a lot better after looking at the faculty list, which includes almost all of the labs I was interested in. I'm very excited, but it just felt a little too good to be true for being rejected from the neuro side.
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so UC Berkeley told me last night that they could not offer me an invite for neuroscience but that I would be a great candidate for their vision science program. My interest is studying visual perception in psychiatric populations via neuroimaging so I'm not totally surprised. Since they transferred my application to vision science, I got an invite today. Questions: 1) is this normal/worth it? 2) does anyone know how different the programs are in terms of classes, funding, etc.? 3) is it better based on my interests to go into vision science at UC Berkeley (if admitted) or wait another year to try for neuroscience?
I'm just a little skeptical about the whole situation...
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56 minutes ago, Micecroscopy said:
I don't really know what your chances are at those schools, but like I said before I think you would have a shot. Maybe check the survey to see if interviews for all those programs have come out yet?
Gotcha, thanks for the info and good luck!
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