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Just woke up to an award! It doesn’t feel real. Received it at 10 pm CST. I applied ARO for Biological Sciences.

So I guess they sent a handful of emails and called it a night?

No, I don’t think anyone has heard anything from NDSEG, even though they said they were sending results “now” an hour ago

I think “now” means something different for them than it does for me…

My 2nd round status was updated at 10:55 am CST, so seems like maybe they entered that manually.

In the past people have been generous about sharing when they hear results, so I think that’s unlikely.

The wait is giving me so much anxiety. Anybody want to call Kim and ask when exactly we’ll hear?

I haven’t heard anything or seen my application change. I don’t think there was any indication of when we might hear. The fellowship is also managed by a new company so we can’t expect things to be consistent with past years. But generally, it does seem that most fellowship programs release results in the morning…

Oh man. After not hearing yesterday or today I thought that we wouldn’t hear till Friday. At least it’s almost over!

My interpretation is also that only folks whose application status says "2nd Round DoD review panel" are still in the running. I suspect that on Jan 31 the system administrators updated everyone's account as either advanced to DoD panel (which shows in the application portal) or not advanced to DoD (which doesn't show any update). I also think that, unlike in previous years where there were many different update stages, we will hear nothing else until the final release of awards. But again, this is just my reading of the tea leaves and I've been wrong about interpreting the updates in past years. We don't know anything with certainty until we get more info from NDSEG and they announce awards.

Just got results for pre-doc! Got honorable mention again. Had favorable reviews but there were 1886 applicants for 75 awards, so I’m sure there were tons of great applicants this year! *correction — 1866 applicants

Hearing back on next Monday would be consistent with last year’s result release, so it’s definitely possible. (Program contractors have changed though so I’m not sure what level of consistency to expect.) Also, it seems like everyone’s application was updated on Jan 31, whether they advanced to DoD panel or not. Based on that uniform update, I think there will be just one final update where everyone’s final application status is changed. This is all speculation though. This is my third and final round applying for NDSEG, so I hope they release the results soon and put me out of my misery.

Sorry to hear that! Still no email or portal updates for me. They must be coming out in waves again.

Perhaps I was too optimistic, but I was hoping results would’ve started rolling in this morning. Maybe tomorrow morning?

On the website( https://ndseg.org/smes) under subject matter experts it says they are responsible for identifying the top 30% that will move on to the DoD panel. It also says the review period for SMEs was 12/9/21 to 1/17/22, which tracks with the updates we received on 1/31/22. In the application portal when you first login in there is a box that shows your application ID, your status, and a button that says view. If you follow view it'll bring you to your application. If you click 'preview' it should display your ID again, your status, and the time stamp that the application was last edited.