kdilks

Yes, the people who haven't been following this thread on an hourly basis are the ones that need pity. :roll:

The website has been up for me all day, still is.

In terms of educational proficiency, last I heard Arkansas was 49, just ahead of Mississippi.

I remembered from a few months back in the public chat thing that got set up for people here.

Are you really stupid enough to think that the NSF is going to take action if they find out that somebody mentioned that they received the list? :roll:

You would know if you were referring to the department you're currently working at, not the one you're currently studying at. Said poster is applying for a PhD in one field, but is currently working for a department in a different field, and might even be the contact person that NSF would send the results to.

The complete list, or just for your department?

You can use both of them, so what decision is there to make?

Except it's back up now, and nothing has obviously changed from before...

And the application website goes boom. Can't access https://www.fastlane-beta.nsf.gov/grfp/ as of around 4:15am EST. Let the speculation begin.

Re-read the first sentence of my last post. That still does nothing to give any credence whatsoever to your claim that you have a low chance of winning purely because you didn't choose MIT as your desired graduate program.

It only matters if you choose a school that's completely inappropriate for what you want to do. Otherwise, why would it affect their judging at all? Do you really think picking MIT as opposed to Harvard is going to have any weight relative to GPA, GREs, course load, research experience, publications, multiple recommendation letters, strength/impact of research proposal, etc?

That's just the place people selected as their desired graduate institution when they filled out the application, not the school they necessarily ended up at. Neither of the two people I know that did well last year (one winner, one HM) got accepted to their desired school. EDIT: Looking back to 2007, one of the grad students at Michigan I know had MIT listed as his graduate institution.

Great, the one school I'm still waiting on...

Weird...list of last year's winners for NDSEG has disappeared, as well.

All three people I know that have gotten accepted to MIT turned them down.

I thought I read it was best to use NDSEG for 3 years and NSF for your last two, because you get $1500 more by using your third year of NDSEG than you get by using NSF.

Rejected.

Just refresh the page a few times, it'll change back to "30th or 31st".

Wow, I just refreshed about 5 times in a row, and got something slightly different each time. Maybe they're just having the site randomly generate a message...

UPDATE - NDSEG Awards will be announced via email on March 30 or 31, 2009 Somebody doesn't have their sh*t together...

https://ndseg.asee.org/about_ndseg/award_selection

12:19pm, technically after noon...

Ask the National Research Council.

My spring break started February 21st.