rkennedy

Sorry to hear that postit. I got a "thanks for info and we'll be making decisions over the next few weeks" email a little after 8am today. I'd be curious about your scores - I wonder if they have a tiered rejection strategy after round two (ie as people accept offers/say they don't have other funding do they start lopping off some of the lower ranked 'maybe fundable' proposals?). Who knows.

My email went out at 11:30am eastern today. Not sure about the rest but I'd assume similar. Past rounds it seems from this thread it's usually Monday and Tuesday, ao obviously a difference here that it's Wednesday. Possible I am/was an alternate (though not sure they have formal ones). Good luck!

Just a heads up that I receives an email from Funding Review today, the one asking what other funding applications I have out/successful and telling me there is no need to reapply by Nov. 1. Surpised me actually since I thought some of the comments first time around would be hard to fully address. Anyway, I'd imagine you all should be hearing soon one way or another. Good luck!

I'm starting a PhD program in anthro soon and we have the same two language requirements with an exam at the end of the second year. Thankfully we can swap statistics (or another science/math-heavy specialization for one), but it's been years since I took Spanish. I'm thinking about going with Chinese anyway since it will be much more useful for my dissertation, but that might be problematic since the program highly encourages you to take a language with a large body of existing anthro-type literature and Chinese doesn't fall on that list. I'll have to appeal that, then hope I can manage to a respectable level in the language in two years - yippee! I'm planning on taking at least two language courses over the summer to help with that, and I'd suggest looking into that on your end. If you could somehow swing a summer FLAS fellowship that could help out with money.