French_Wannabe

Belgium reached out to me about an interview this morning! This has led me to start re-reading my entire application, something I haven't done since I submitted it back in October! I was too scared to do it before haha.

Hi @whale_shark @Monsieur Vénus and @cafelove - I am also a semi-finalist for ETA in France! For TAPIF I believe I put Strasbourg as my #1 and cannot remember the others. I was too focused on actually getting the application completed and forgot to save a copy of it for myself. In any case- best of luck to you all! I'm not very familiar with grad cafe yet so i'm not even sure if this is the correct way to reply. Have any of you studied French/in France or have traveled there? If so, where? Just curious  

It's possible that it's based on University, location or even alphabetically (these are all guesses)! I doubt that has anything to do with your ranking overall. 

It's possible that it's based on University, location or even alphabetically (these are all guesses)! I doubt that has anything to do with your ranking overall. 

Strasbourg, Poitiers, and Rennes (in some sort of order)    To be honest, I don't have all that much of a preference – just being in France is enough for me! haha
 

Hey! Yeah, my professor said the same thing about the interviews. Also, I think that by virtue of being a semi-finalist, we are (possibly?) more likely to be considered for TAPIF. I also heard that we will most likely have the opportunity to change the list of regions that we mentioned on the TAPIF application, if we so choose. Don't quote me on that, though!  What did you and @whale_shark request for the regions? 

It would be great to hear what your professor says! I just spoke with my campus Fulbright advisor, and he said that France has, historically, not conducted interviews. He also said that, if they were conducting interviews, we would have already been notified about them. And that's good to know about them considering our preferred TAPIF regions! I had just kind of assumed they would ignore our TAPIF application unless we didn't win the Fulbright, haha

Hi @Monsieur Vénus and @cafelove ! Yes I haven't heard anything since the email, and I submitted my request through my university for an official transcript sent to IIE. I don't think France has an interview, but I'm can't say for sure. I'm so excited about this, and good luck to all! 
Do you guys know if they look at our TAPIF applications?? 

I'm pretty sure they do? I'm meeting with my professor ( a former Fulbrighter) later this afternoon to ask questions about the different city/region requests. According to her they will contact us soon to make sure we want to keep the 3 regions we listed on the TAPIF applications. I'll try to pick her brain about the next steps as much as possible and let you all know!