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this is curious though. I thought people don't find out if they are honorable mention until they see their rating sheets? Could be a massive april fools. Not cool.

Guys, everyone who has posted in the results section claims to have found it through the website. Log into to fast lane. And see what's under application task manager. If there is accept award, you got it. Otherwise, honorable mention or rejection is potentially impending.

This sucks. Yea, I know i shouldn't be bitching that I got "waitlisted". But whatever, its a rejection, and one I'll move on from. Stats: 1st year graduate student Undergrad: Top 15 Private GPA: 3.7 Grad: Stanford Civil Engineering GRE: 800 Math 660 Verbal 2 first author publications and several co author publications...blah, blah, blah. Congrats to those who got it!

FUCK: You have been selected as an alternate in the 2009 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship competition. You will receive an email notification as to whether you have been selected to receive one of the 2009 NDSEG Fellowships on Monday, April 20. We thank you for your interest in the NDSEG Fellowship Program, and will be in touch soon! Sincerely, The NDSEG Program Team at ASEE Just got it...ugh.

I don't get it. It's not like everyone will get a response anyways. They are notifying winners. Which means, if you didn't get notified, you are either in limbo or rejected. This waiting process can technically continue till may like last year.

lol.....Or March 31

Regardless, to the OP: I do suggest you contact faculty you are interested in, and ask about additional funding. I know this hasn't worked for friends in the past for SAIS, KSG, GW, or SIPA (all expensive schools who are stingy to most), but things might have changed. Your best bet would be to get a Professor interested in having you do research for them in policy or other areas of interest. Also, talk to your professors and see if they have contacts.

My statement might still be true for other humanities programs. Your experience comes from Canadian grad schools, which can have completely different policies altogether. I have friends that went to SAIS, KSG, and other IR grad schools. So in that regard, I have first knowledge of how "negotiations" don't work. I'll try to get some of them to come here. Additionally to the other poster posting about JHU and MIT. JHU probably cares that MIT is outpaying in stipend amount, but they will not adjust aid just to enroll a particular applicant. The Ph.D. stipend amounts are set by the university and cannot be increased randomly by the department, even if a competitor is paying more. Ullinois might have a lower stipend simply due to the fact that it is a state school in a lower cost of living area, not because it is a "better" school. I can tell you, with offers in hand from top engineering schools when I applied, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, had negligibly different stipend amounts relative to lesser engineering schools like JHU, and Columbia. Only UT-Austin provided substantially less (about 10k less) in stipend due to Austin being a cheaper place to live.

I'm talking about engineering grad schools and US IR MA program schools (which the OP is applying to)

Grad schools don't care about how much money other schools have given you. This is true for ph.d. students also. They will not all of a sudden increase fellowship money if a competitor school accepts you. However, they can potentially give fellowship money turned down by others to you, but its not your position to ask for this money, as it is distributed at the department's discretion. I know some SAIS and KSG IR Masters folk. While not happy, most of them are paying loans due to limited funding at these schools.

I applied to structural engineering and received funding around March 15. But you might be applying for a different program? Each division of the department makes decisions at different timeframes.

That must be a hell of a delay. I'm a domestic applicant that applied to MS/PhD structural engineering programs: Accepted w/ full funding and stipend: UTexas, Cornell, Columbia, JHU, Stanford Accepted and funding pending: UC Berkeley, MIT Rejected for MSE: Princeton You should have gotten stuff from stanford and berkeley by email atleast. There were some international students at the weekends I was at.

That must be a hell of a delay. I'm a domestic applicant that applied to MS/PhD structural engineering programs: Accepted w/ full funding and stipend: UTexas, Cornell, Columbia, JHU, Stanford Accepted and funding pending: UC Berkeley, MIT Rejected for MSE: Princeton You should have gotten stuff from stanford and berkeley by email atleast. There were some international students at the weekends I was at.