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Gratulacje, @sbees! @emiliajulia, I don't think there is a Facebook group for our year, but it might be worth making one? I also joined this one: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fulbrightPL/

@justme17, thanks for your thoughts! For anyone else wondering about timeline changes, I asked the Polish Commission about the dates on my Research Grant, and they said that in exceptional cases, they may let people start earlier, in August. The only other option is to shorten the grant period to the start date I wish, which would also involve losing the possibility to apply for an extension, or to turn down the grant and apply again later. This does appear to be per commission, as I know a former Research grantee to Egypt who pushed back the start date and still received the full amount of funding and was also granted an extension.

Does anyone know whether you can delay the start date of the full grant? (Not to the next academic year, which I know is not allowed.)

@cmf94 and @sbees, fingers crossed, I hope it works out for you!

@roar_lion Super! Gratuluję!

@emiliajulia, głównie we Warszawie, a także w Krakowie. Jej!

I'm also a finalist for study/research in Poland! Gratulacje, @emiliajulia.

@sbees, @emiliajulia and I both recently had interviews for Poland, as @sat0ri mentions. They were both for the full grant, not ETA. Details are a page back if you think that our experiences could help you. At least for me, part of the interview was in Polish to verify my language ability, which I don't expect will be the case for ETA. But I agree that relaxing and being yourself is the way to go. To me, it felt like they were largely putting a face to a name, and/or wanting to hear me talk about my work the way I might with colleagues in Poland. Good luck! They also told me that I would hear the final decision from IIE in March. I wonder if all of the applicants for every type of grant for one country all find out at the same time. Does anyone know?

Undergrad. I went to a women's college. It was an incredibly formative experience in a feminist environment, which I've grown to appreciate even more -- and missed dearly -- as a grad student at an Ivy.

Hi all, I'm new to this thread after remembering this site/digging up my account that I haven't used in a few years. I applied for a Full Grant to Poland this year. Just had the Skype interview yesterday. It was very straightforward -- three people from the Commission asked me to elaborate certain areas of my project and why I want to undertake it, how I would plan to contribute to U.S.-Polish relations upon my return to the States if I am awarded the grant, and why it was important to me to go to Poland at this particular time over any other. At the end, they said I would hear the decision from IIE probably in March. @emiliajulia, they were very friendly, and I don't think that rescheduling your interview would present a problem -- they are probably just busy scheduling other candidates and figuring out any rearrangements that need to be done, which I'm sure are common, given all the different time zones and everything. But I hope that you've heard back by now, and that sharing my experience can help with your interview! Best of luck to you, to all other applicants to Poland, and to everyone applying for a Fulbright this year.

Me either, good luck to everyone else!

Did anyone else apply for this? I haven't heard anything back yet, but the application online is now instructing me to upload my acceptance letters and financial aid info.

Accepted at Yale and Columbia for dramaturgy. Any thoughts or advice on these programs appreciated!

Well, I called, and they're going to reissue my letter to my permanent address -- so, more waiting for me, especially as I'm in a different time zone from it!

I am still waiting to hear on a France full grant, and received contradictory e-mail responses from the Fulbright office: One stating that my letter had been sent to my present rather than permanent address (I thought it should have been sent to the latter), and another one -- an hour later -- asking whether I had received an e-mail notification about my status at the end of January (of course I did!).