Physicsisphysics

Yeah! I wish there was more talk about fellowships other than the GRFP, but of course, the Ford is targeted towards an entirely different audience.
By the way, does anybody know what the acceptance rate is for the Ford? I'm sure it's selective, but I have no clue and couldn't find anything online!

Oh wow, that's really selective. At least it's higher than the Soros...I think this year the acceptance rate is about 1.5%.

Fingers crossed for all of us!

There's not many stats on the Ford in general. But there's a press release of all the winners from last year (http://nrc58.nas.edu/FordFellows20/ExtRpts/PressReleaseRoster.aspx?RptMode=AW&CompYr=2019&Layout=wwwLibs%2fUtil_Web%2fPageLayouts%2fApplPrintLayout) which you can browse.

Also nervously waiting. Hoping we hear back this week!

Not to fan the flames of obsessive email refreshing, but...
Last year it appears decisions were sent out on March 15th (the third Friday in March), so it's possible that decisions could go out this week (closer to the 15th) or next week (the third Friday of the month). It does seem that many of these grant decision emails go out on Fridays. 
In the meantime, I was just poking around on the Ford Foundation website, and it seems that there's a new link ("Review Result") which wasn't there the last time I checked. When you click on it, it says "Review results will be available one to two weeks after the review"–as a post above pointed out, the scheduled review of applications seems to have happened last Thursday/Friday, so decisions being communicated this week or next would make sense in light of this as well.  

Yeah! I wish there was more talk about fellowships other than the GRFP, but of course, the Ford is targeted towards an entirely different audience.
By the way, does anybody know what the acceptance rate is for the Ford? I'm sure it's selective, but I have no clue and couldn't find anything online!

It's kind of annoying a lot of visits are cancelled. It certainly is for the best, but it doesn't make things any easier!

There's not many stats on the Ford in general. But there's a press release of all the winners from last year (http://nrc58.nas.edu/FordFellows20/ExtRpts/PressReleaseRoster.aspx?RptMode=AW&CompYr=2019&Layout=wwwLibs%2fUtil_Web%2fPageLayouts%2fApplPrintLayout) which you can browse.

Does anybody have any idea when we should hear back? I read at some point, and I'm unsure how accurate this is, that they only release results on Tuesday and Thursday. Is this true?

Still waiting as well! I emailed them and they said decisions will go out in late March to early April.

I'm really nervous and stressed about my apps. I've been working on them non-stop since May, since I got back my physics GRE score from the April administration and found out I didn't do so hot. I re-took and didn't do any better. I'm decently confident in my app, but every so often I just get deeply worried, stressed, and anxious that all my four years of work might mean nothing to my dream schools because of this one test. Literally been working on trying to optimize every parameter of my app since May just because I'm so damn nervous and anxious. I don't think most people start until October....
IDK if anybody would be open to a chance me, but if so, just message me or check the GRE subforum where I posted my stats there.