Sarahpennies

Do you know if we talk to our campus representatives about it or do we just email iie? Seeing what I did wrong might make me feel slightly better

I didn't get it The closure is nice though

Still haven't gotten anything T n T But congrats to everyone! Whether you got in or not I am very proud of you, and I am so happy there was a community here to hyperventilate with. I didn't know anyone else who had applied at my school, so it was nice to have you all to wait with.

I'm Eastern Europe and haven't heard anything - looks like SE Asia so far and maybe AFLI have heard back?

Congrats to all of you that heard back so far!!

Still no email for me. My heart can't take this. My last name starts with N

Thats true! I'm about to go get my vaccines done and I was hoping to here back to decide if I actually need to be stabbed needles or not

Didn't get an email yet. Not looking good :/

I definitely wish I could have done an academic year, but it would have interfered with my senior capstone project. I think my proposal was EXACTLY 6 months to the day, and I feel like that was probably the weakest part of my application

Congrats to everyone!!!

Not that I'm totally obsessing or anything, but in last year's thread people started posting their acceptances around 7am PST and people who got rejected/alternated posted at the same time. Another round went out at 10am, but that also contained a mix of everyone. Maybe they stagger it by time zones?

This is the longest weekend of my life.

Does anyone know what they're gonna say to their letter writers if they don't get the Boren? Or just not say anything? I feel awkward telling them I didn't get it, but it also feels weird just to ignore it, especially if I plan to use them again for grad school apps.

I think the odds are in your favor ( ;

Here is a Google Doc for this year (feel free to edit whatever, I just modified the 16-17 one) 2018-2019 Tracker

@persona_in_foro ohhh where in Eastern Europe did you do your fullbright? I'm considering applying for one next year in EE!

I was thinking what Chesire said as well - both of my study abroad programs supply their own health insurance included within their tuition. Maybe Boren doesn't need to follow up with students who they know will have insurance? Just guessing. Now that we are about a week away the stress is real but it does look good for all of you with second e-mails ( :

The past few years they've been pretty consistent about releasing results around the 15th. Last year the 15th was on a weekend, so results got sent out the 17th, and you can see the dates for other years in this Google doc. So we can't be certain, but it's a pretty good guess it will be the 16th this year! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fRbfFm_OYBjplV7YsCEgxUlw5PO4elanSgDOZH0Sm_A/edit?usp=drivesdk

Looking at past years threads, there doesn't seem to be a correlation between the 2nd budget e-mail and acceptance! Hopefully that stays the same I haven't gotten anything from Boren Europe

That's interesting! I grew up near the DC area and it seems most of people I went to high school with want a career in the federal government or military, although I can see why that might not be the case for everyone. It's kind of fun seeing the conspiracy theories and academia/government divide though! I think I heard a similar one the other day about international students spying on the US for the Chinese government

I was looking at the NSEP reports and applicants for the Boren scholarship have dropped from about 1,000 in 2012 to about 750 in 2017. I mean, that's good for us since it makes the acceptance rate higher but I wonder why that is? Applications started decreasing pretty steadily since 2013 so it isn't due to the new administration

Hmmm, I was under the assumption most Flagship students didn't get the budget e-mail. Did last year's flagship students get a budget request? Here's what my budget e-mail said: "We are emailing all 2018 Boren Scholarship applicants (with the exception of AFLI French/Swahili/Portuguese, IFLI, and SAFLI applicants) to offer an opportunity to update your scholarship budget, if necessary"

Oooh I definitely agree with lposmanick about alternative meals! I used to be vegetarian and the vegetarian meals always looked more edible than what everyone else got.

Woo! Great job on the school scholarship! I know any little bit helps ( : For flying, I would definitely bring gum! Your ears will pop when the plane takes off and for some reason chewing gum helps with that. If you have a hard time falling asleep sitting up I would also bring along some sleeping pills - you can really only watch so many movies for 12 hours. Take it after you go through security and hopefully you'll zonk right right out. When you land you want to follow a normal sleep schedule as best as possible, so if you land at 9am try not to take a nap and wait until a reasonable bedtime to fall asleep. This should make acclimating to jetlag a little easier. For international flights they should supply passengers with blankets and pillows and at least 1 meal, although that might've changed as airlines try to cut costs. Even though I fly a couple times of year I still get freaked out by turbulence! Someone once compared airplane turbulence to a car hitting a bump in the road - 99.9% of the time nothing bad is going to happen and turbulence is just like bumps in the air. That thought has always helped me when we go through a rough patch on an airplane.

My first guess is that there aren't too many STEM applicants since they are less likely to study abroad compared to humanities and social sciences - maybe it will work in your favor ?