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    NDSEG fellowship

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    It is clear that this was a fish. I hope we will hear something Monday.

    Well, the information should prove useful to anyone else who might actually get one and doesn't want to fulfill the end of the Boy Who Cried Wolf parable (;

    I was afraid that Monday was a federal holiday (Patriot's Day), but I guess it's only a holiday for us. Phew.

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted · Edited by jendoly

    "Print Screen | SysRq" key on your keyboard. Ctrl-V into Paint. Save. Imageshack.com. Post link. Done.

    EDIT: If you're on a Mac, it's even easier. I forget the key shortcut though. Saves a screencap to your desktop.

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted · Edited by jendoly

    I highly doubt that, but if one discipline or sponsoring body turned their selections in first, they may have sent them out immediately. For example, maybe ARO sent in their picks and those were sent out, but AFOSR hasn't notified ASEE of their picks yet. Similarly, maybe they divide into 3 groups: offers, deferrals and rejections and they have sent out offers and rejections but people who were in effect deferred have to wait to see who accepts their offers before they get closure. At the very least that means that if you haven't gotten an email yet, you aren't out of the running. In other words, I still have hope and my stomach is still in knots.

    We had at least 180 people in here at one point (~6.2% of candidates), and as of now, we've heard of only 4 emails being sent out (kala tim, fluffy, and joe and his friend, 3 acceptances, one rejection). Assuming a fairly equal distribution between the offices of acceptances (7%/4 = 1.75% of applicants), that's 1.6% of the people who come to this forum that have been accepted, which would be on par with a single office having sent out decisions, but nowhere near the number of rejections we would expect to see, knowing that at least one has been sent out. I don't think we're ALL deferred, either. I wanted to go with the discipline theory, but we have some people in the cognitive field who don't know yet either (though of course that could be deferrals also, but they have a history of releasing deferrals at the same time as other notifications).

    Agreed. I am not ruling out the possibility that the people who claim to have gotten an email might just be talking out their butts to get a rise out of the rest of us. However, if they are telling the truth my post still rings true. If they aren't telling the truth then we are all worrying about nothing (so far).

    I am also holding wide open the possibility that we're being trolled (;

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted

    if you haven't received an email yet, but want to know if you've received it, go to the award page http://ndseg.asee.org/award and try to log in with the same email/pw combo you used for your application.

    There is always the chance that whatever automated system is sending out the emails hasn't processed that you have won it until it actually gets to your name and sends the email, so I would take this with a grain of salt, unless someone who has yet to receive a letter is able to log in.

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted · Edited by jendoly

    Wow, assuming 200 awards, that's a <7% acceptance rate.

    EDIT: I wonder if they're sending them out in batches by research category. Joe, were you and your friend in the same field?

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted

    God, is this a real situation?

    Should we believe that they are sending out emails now?

    Haha, I feel you - don't quite want to believe it or I won't get ANYTHING done until I hear (second day in a row) Anyone want to C&P their letter for further proof?

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted

    Fortunately I got the award. However, my friend also got his notification at the same time but did not get the award.

    Congratulations :D! And that gives the rest of us who have yet to receive any word some hope, though condolences to your friend ):

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted

    I'm not 100% convinced something has to be sent out during working hours, since a computer's got to be the one sending out notifications - it could be an entirely automated process of Get List -> Sort By Decision -> Create Emails -> Send Emails. So...I'm not giving up on today until it's midnight, haha.

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted

    134!

    Man, I'm on my DROID and every time the little Exchange email icon comes up in the taskbar I have a mini heart attack, especially since it doesn't show a preview of the message when you pull the tray down ><

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted

    I just hope that a lot of the NDSEG winners this year are people who DIDN'T win the NSF GRFP. There always seems to be a lot of overlap, although the NSF evaluation panel members seem to be especially capricious.

    While I agree with this in the spirit of spreading the wealth (putting aside my own situation), I am glad that they judge applications based on their own merit as opposed to gerryrigging it such that they award to two separate pools. That of course assumes that awards are made based purely on merit, which is up for debate (but one could argue that if the majority of the applications are appropriately meritous, then there has to be differentiation based on reviewer bias, etc etc), but they are two very similar fellowships albeit the NSF with a larger pool of candidate disciplines, so I would expect a fair amount of overlap if people tend to apply to both. The new rule that you can't take both would seem to fulfill your hope - if someone wins both, one of them will end up going to someone who didn't such that it all shakes out in the end.

    NDSEG fellowship

    in The Bank

    Posted

    The good news is that if you get a rejection e-mail, you don't even have to open it to know the result (if you're using gmail at least), as the first 3 or 4 words give it away, and those are previewed in your inbox ;). It's like when you get college rejection envelopes in puney little envelopes.

    Your optimism is most assuredly contagious (;

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