junkmail

I don't mind at all! CBYX also has a young professionals program, which anyone from college to age 24 is eligible for. I don't really know anything about the high school program, but the young professionals exchange also has a strong professional development component. I'll age out of that after this year so I'm accepting this offer and will likely apply for a Fulbright again in a few years, once I'm in grad school. Let me know if you have other questions! And thank you! Best of luck to you as well!

I actually forgot I had applied for Fulbright and accepted a job back in November. Now I'm stuck waiting for Germany to find out where I will be going next year. 

IM GOING TO KOREA ETA AND IM CRYING OMG 

WOOHOO!! Congratulations!

Berlin as well! HIT ME UP! We can be friends!

I GOT IT OMG I AM DYING!

In terms of the politics thing...Maybe it's just because I'm older and slightly more established, but I am not interested in hiding my political stance on the current administration. If the Fulbright program becomes so politicized that an applicant's level of devotion to the president is a consideration, that's not a program I want to be part of anyway. It's one thing to be professional and relatively apolitical in your application and interviews (just as you would with a job) but my Facebook and Twitter pages remain staunchly opposed to the Trump administration. 
My project is also about global migration, and I did write briefly about the need for Fulbright projects to help humanize immigrants in a period of growing xenophobia. Again, if that disqualifies me, then it's not a program I want to join anyway.

As someone who was responsible for admissions for a very large university program, maybe I can help shed some light on the notification gaps.
Granted, I was working on a much smaller scale than Fulbright in terms of people to notify, but I was responsible for sending 600-800 notifications each year via email. This also involved multiple emails to those accepted, sort of like the emails to principal candidates.
It is an excruciatingly slow process, even when you're using automated mail merges and things like that, which I'm sure the Fulbright coordinators are. Each letter has to be checked, and often the emails have to be individually crafted. If I was in charge of sending the emails, I would separate the awards (student/ETA/scholar/etc) in order to ensure that the work was being done in batches and that people weren't being unnecessarily kept waiting. 
Someone mentioned that maybe it means that they're deliberating more about the ones that haven't gone out. I doubt that's the case. I would imagine it's more organizational than anything and - though I understand people's instincts - the coordinators are likely slowed down by all the people calling. 
Like I said, I was an admissions coordinator, not a Fulbright coordinator, so I'm sure they have different processes. But I want to encourage people not to try to prognosticate too much based on the order or timing of notifications. It's probably got nothing to do with us. I also understand the instinct to call (I, too, am going nuts waiting to hear) but really the best thing is to let the coordinators do their work, particularly since we've seen that calls rarely yield useful info.

It seems like it's more of a formality.  On page four it outlines the final selection process.
 
http://gradfellows.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Fulbright-Selection-Process.pdf

I got the Flu...so that's been helpful...