Hi @French_Wannabe ! Congrats on being a semi-finalist!
Yes, I studied in Paris my sophomore year (I'm undergrad) for a semester! I'm an education major, so I could only do the few months, otherwise, I would have done the full year! It's such an amazing country, and I hope to live there and teach in an international school one day.
I think I saw somewhere that they normally pick about double the number of finalist spots to move forward, so I'm guessing about 20? Not entirely sure though! I'd love to know the statistics!
I had a dream about Fulbright last night too! They sent everyone who applied a congratulations, but the acceptance was to some random program and they did it on accident. So, I thought I got in but actually it was a mistake. Kind of a bad dream...