d-hopper

They've published the list of awardees for this year, looks like they awarded 107ish this cycle. 
Deadline being just this past Monday, guess they didn't get to many declining the award if they've got their list already. 

Don't take this the wrong way, I'm glad to see you are 32, in school, and pursuing fellowships like this. I'm your age, and I'm finishing my masters in a school where I'm 6-7 years older than the average student. I thought maybe I was too old to go spend an entire year abroad on my language. Good to see other students my age in pursuit of the same things.
I was worried about this until I asked my professors about it. They all said just accept it and go get the language study in, it's paid for and it makes you more valuable for the rest of your life. Two of them actually laughed at me and said I was half their age, why was I asking them what "too old" is. 

I sent you a PM C:
to the alternates, according to past threads in the forum, alternates have actually moved quite a bit, but there are no odds or statistics. It would be really useful if there were though.

Congratulations to everyone who got it! Obviously, it's a great opportunity. Unfortunately, I didn't get the fellowship. I was pretty upset when I first saw the email, but I'm feeling a lot better now. Will try to apply next year. Do you know if you can request feedback on your application from Boren? Would be curious to find out what I can improve going forward. 
Anyways, congrats again!!

I can't say honestly but I can tell you this. The deadline for first round acceptance is May 1st for getting in the documentation. They should know who the first drop outs from the initial acceptance group then. 

get it?

Last year decision came out April 15th, don't know about years before. I didn't even know it existed before I started my graduate program so I don't know people who participated other than some folks in 2016-2017 year, but a decision should be forth coming around that time. If people can start a Boren in May, unlikely that decisions are released just days before people would need to commit and then leave the country. Not impossible mind you, but it'd be damned silly. 
Edit: looking at the conversation in older Boren threads from 2015 and further back.... April 15 is a pretty solid date.