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Funny - even when I log back in I'm not able to access the rubric through the link anymore. At any rate, if decisions don't come out today, it looks like we'll be waiting until next week for any word.

After I posted the rubric link that I found from snooping around on the AIS web application portal, they've taken the rubric down. Are they watching this thread?

In all seriousness, here is the rubric that they use.

Yup. I'm banking on the assumption that if that's the deadline for the second round, the panelists would have to know who the semifinalists were beforehand. Or I could be completely wrong. Who knows?

The page I looked at wasn't entirely clear. I'm assuming those are for second-round panelists - the email we received from CLS after submitting our applications mentioned that we'd get semifinalist results in January, and finalist announcements in February. That means we'll be getting notifications for the first round by then, for sure. I suspect it's the deadline for round two evaluations - they'd have to compile and ready the second evaluations to create the list of ~500 finalists.

@I Think I canAmerican Councils, the organization to which we sent our application forms, might help you find something for your language: https://www.americancouncils.org/programs Depending on your language of interest and your major, there might be other programs available for you as well. Check around your university's scholarships page and you might be able to find more information. Speaking of which, I was snooping around again and found this tidbit: Application Evaluation - Round 2 Deadline to Submit Evaluations Wednesday, January 25, 2017, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern/Washington, D.C. time The end is near!

@hobakie Thanks for clearing that up! I shouldn't be the authority here when talking about CLS experiences. Sounds like you got a lot out of it! I checked again on previous threads about the (approximate) dates when they heard back from the first round of decisions: 2016 - ~Jan. 28 (delayed) 2015 - ~Jan. 13 2014 - ~Jan. 16 2013 - ~Jan. 10 2012 - ~Jan. 07 2011 - ~Jan. 10 Assuming there are no delays this year, we're right around prime time for a notification.

I've also been part short study trips abroad with other organizations, but neither of them were genuine "study abroad" programs per se (the longest was three and a half weeks long) - so I'm in the same boat as you! From what I've seen when snooping around online, CLS is extremely intensive. A significant amount of time in the weekdays seems to be spent in-class, with language buddies, and on homework assignments (with a host of other classwork I'm sure I haven't listed). There are, however, group excursions, and the weekends seem to be generally open for travel with friends and/or (depending on your housing situation) for spending time with your host family - so you're really getting 24/7 immersion in the target language. There's also some sort of language pledge that some take to speak only in the target language for the entire duration of the CLS program.

Hi everyone! I also joined up to get in this thread too. After reading the CLS 2016 cycle thread, I'm already little anxious (aren't results about week away from now?) @I Think I can I talked to my advisor about applying for CLS and she mentioned receiving an offer to read applications for this year, which she declined due to an upcoming maternal leave. I don't think she had any experience with any of the designated critical languages - now that I think of it, I should have kept that in mind when writing my application... (oops) I submitted my application for Japanese. Best of luck to everybody!