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Same

Similarly, I have heard it described as NSF awards your "potential" while NDSEG awards "accomplishments"

Seems like a couple of people have added to the spreadsheet

You can tell that he has also given up hope on the process. Honestly though, what kind of technical issues could actually be holding the process up? I mean at this rate they could just fax the applications back and forth and it would be faster...

My faith in Sysplus is at an all time low

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As much as it sucks, these things are probably a very easy way to cull the group down almost immediately

Someone filtered it, fixed

I know one person who did, a member of ~December Gang~ (not on the spreadsheet I think)

And I imagine that will be worse this year because the DoD has pushed back so far (anyone know the deadline for accepting NSF?)

All of the ones I know of have some sort of mechanism like this (mostly because people who are competitve for one fellowship are also competitive for others)

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people with April updates ended up getting offers/alternates considering that 61/131 of the entries on the sheet have already won some sort of external fellowship/HM.

I imagine what is happening now is a bunch of P.O.s are getting emails that they haven't submitted their selections on time and now we will see the rush

I am of the theory that all of the April updates are different DoD people "weighing in" to the application (maybe it goes to the different P.O.s then to higher ups?). In this thinking, any April update is a good thing as it means your application is at least getting passed around at DoD.

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