Hey guys!
I just discovered this forum tonight. The wait is starting to absolutely kill me, but It'll be nice to have some peers to go through purgatory with.
Since there seems to have been a fair amount of confusion regarding emails and the flagship programs, I thought I would throw my hat in the ring. I applied for AFLI and received this email from BorenAFLI on Friday:
"Dear applicant:
We are spot checking our applicant budgets and have a few questions. This process does not in any way guarantee that you will be a Boren awardee. We want to be very clear that not all applicants receiving this message will be awarded.
Please respond to this email no later than Monday April 9th, 2018 to confirm whether or not you will have health insurance coverage for the summer 2018 period. If awarded, we want to ensure that you will have coverage for the time that you will be enrolled at University of Florida for the AFLI summer portion of the program.
Please note, you may receive further inquiries based on your specific budget details.
Thank you."
Judging from the previous posts discussing what emails have meant in past years, I am trying not to read into this too much. Although, on the positive side, the language of the email, specifically the "not all applicants receiving this message" tidbit, does seem to logically imply that only certain applicants are receiving the message. Given that the email asks for health insurance confirmation during the Summer, it would make sense if those receiving the email are among the crop of initial recommendations made by the regional review committees.
But this could also just be my biased and ridiculously hopeful interpretation. I guess we'll find out!
I am assuming at this point that notification emails will be sent on Monday, the 16th, if the pattern from previous years holds.
