wowz3rz

This is my second time applying. I got honorable mention the first time, and then alternate this time. I had 5 reviewers...which seems more than most..for whatever reason. I haven't started my PhD yet so I can keep applying, but it's hard to interpret REALLY what they are looking for from the results. (Don't really understand why a reviewer wouldn't leave comments?) If you look at the lists of past winners for pre-doctoral, it seems as if a lot of them are going to Ivy Leagues, but that's not the case for the dissertation/post-doctoral. I wonder why. Also, I'm studying computer science and only 1 person who has gotten the award in the past 2 years has been from computer science. Peculiar?