easytiger

This is the order in which it appears on the website: Recent Bachelor's Degree Recipients Graduate Students (1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year) Recent Master's Degree Recipients Pre-Doctoral Students (1st year, 2nd year) I think they are referring to "graduate students" as recent bachelor's degree recipients and "pre-doctoral students" as recent master's degree recipients. So if you started your Ph.D. straight out of a bachelor's degree program, you are still eligible in your third year (as far as I know). This seems to disagree with the "Eligible applications are enrolled ... through the second year of a traditional PhD program" statement farther up on the page, but it has been the rule for the last few years. From the old NDSEG facebook page (posted in 2011): "According to the NDSEG Eligibility Guidelines, students are no longer eligible for the program if they have completed more than two years of full-time graduate study. If a potential applicant has just begun their third year of graduate study this fall then they are considered eligible pending they meet all other eligibility criteria." From last year's solicitation: "Students can start applying to the program as early as their undergraduate senior year and as late as the start of their third year of overall graduate study."

@GoldenDog, did you get the "updated education information" email?

Did anyone else not receive the email about updated education information? I've had to ask them to resend each of the past emails, so I suspect that the same thing happened this time, but the lady answering the phone at STI-Tec is super unhelpful.