Tomsand
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10 hours ago, roseyfox said:
Will I get accepted by the universities I have applied to? I think I gave my 100(everyone does) but still a bit nervous!
No way you just bumped an eleven year old thread that OP said was over ?
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On 3/21/2022 at 11:36 AM, IsaB said:
Yes, I probably received the same email as you. They said that my academic background in economics is not sufficient. On the website, they only mentioned we should have the equivalent of one semester in microeconomics and macroeconomics, and some other subjects in economics were desirable. but in the email, the evaluation required intermediate level for those subjects and also requisite in other subjects, econometrics and quantitative analysis
Yeah, based on the website reqs, I definitely met their requirements. Not the ones stated in the email, though!
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On 3/18/2022 at 2:52 PM, IsaB said:
@Tomsand my reference haven't received anything so far. Let's see if until the end of March we hear anything new.
I just received an email today, talked about exactly what you stated earlier. 1800+ apps, only 5% considered. I was denied due to my undergraduate being insufficient for their reqs, apparently. Knew it was a long shot with the Econ reqs but threw in my app anyways since they consider other disciplines.(BBA in Management)
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41 minutes ago, IsaB said:
@Tomsand did your reference person receive the email to send the letter to EGEI? The selection committee answered me on 15th February they would only request the reference letters of eligible candidates who have a pre-evaluation above a given threshold as they have received more than 1500 applications.
Oh I see, no, I haven’t heard anything from my reference. Did you hear back? Early March was the decision date for this program correct? You’d think we would have people posting about it.
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On 3/17/2022 at 8:57 AM, IsaB said:
Did anyone's referee person receive an email from EGEI programme requesting the reference letter? Did someone already receive an invite for an interview?
I applied to EGEI, I would think that your reference should have received that email a couple of weeks ago at the close of the application? I haven’t heard anything from the program. There is supposed to be an interview?
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19 hours ago, ThatSwampYankee said:
I second this. I don’t think I’ve been able to find anything online, but I do know they had 20+ scholarships for the IMCEERES program this year. In past years they’d accepted about eight times that number into the program according to a letter I found online.
Between the virus and the deadline extension I suspect that number will be lower this year. Silver lining is maybe there are better odds for us?
I just received my unconditional offer for IMCEERES today! Screaming rn, but it’ll be a grueling intermission before we get word on scholarships.
Cheers, and best of luck once again
It's quite possible that the number of applicants will be lower this year due to the virus and their extension. However, I thought this would be the case for a different scholarship I applied to in early 2021 (Boren), and instead it ended up being more competitive. Nonetheless, seeing the amount of activity on this thread compared to last year's Erasmus Mundus thread on this forum, it does seem like there are less applicants this year overall.
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5 hours ago, rkjohn said:
For GLOCAL they had mentioned in one of their posts about 600 applications and then ranking the top 100 with 20+ receiving fellowships. Does the 600+ include those who got conditional or unconditional offers? I heard GLOCAL have become pretty competitive lately (with almost 900 applications, I read somewhere).
If GLOCAL received 600 applications, then I do not think this is the number for the amount of persons who received a cond/uncond. offer (it's just the number of apps received). I believe those who do receive offers receive them under the guise of "self-funded", and later will or will not receive the scholarship.
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9 hours ago, Cyan36 said:
Hey! Just received an unconditional offer for the ILGSPD master (only two weeks after I applied). I am strongly doubting my chances of getting the scholarship though, as I’m a programme country applicant so very few places available. Couldn’t find a date when they’re releasing the results, but I assume end of March?
Good luck to all of you!Congrats! Thanks for pointing the chances of scholarship while being a programme country applicant. As a dual nat., I could have applied as a Partner country instead of a Programme country but went with Programme country (Spain). Should I have applied as a partner country (USA) to increase my chances? Is there any solid acceptance statistics behind Erasmus Mundus scholarships?
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On 1/22/2022 at 8:37 AM, ThatSwampYankee said:
Also applied, but only to this program so far. Might also apply for the ISAD program at Jagiellonian, but we'll see. Fingers crossed for the scholarship, and best of luck to you all as well. I'm a little encouraged by the extended deadline.
Thank you, best of luck to you as well. I will be interested in hearing how it goes for you with IMCEERES! The history + language side of me would love to do that program...
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On 1/20/2022 at 7:06 PM, mc_queen said:
Hey! I've been lurking and hoping others would chime in but I guess I'll have to be one of the first to throw my hat in the ring too haha. I'm also applying for this cycle! Congrats on the conditional offer! Did you end up getting one for IMCEERES as well?
I've applied to three programs (well, two programs, one is delayed on opening their app platform). EPOG, GLOCAL, and GLOBED. Got an unconditional offer for Glasgow for GLOCAL so far.
Hopefully more people will chime in! Ready to anxiously wait as a group ?
Thank you! So, due to issues with my recommendations, I was only able to apply to TourDC. Congratulations on the uncon offer, best of luck on receiving your choice of program and scholarship!
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I have received a conditional offer for the TourDC Program. Fingers crossed to be selected for the Erasmus Scholarship!
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Hola everyone,
Any applicants for the programs under Erasmus Mundus Scholarships in 2022? The deadline to submit is Jan. '22 on most, IIRC. I currently am planning on applying to the IMCEERES, TourDC, and EGEI Programs. The former two are both under the same university (Glasgow), is it advisable to apply to two programs from the same university? It's not clear to me whether the scholarship itself is "awarded" by the home institution for the program.
Best of luck to all!
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Is anyone else's portal appearing empty? Where it used to state that I was an alternate is now blank. Tried it on three different browsers.
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To those that were finalists in 2020 and applied again for 2021, did you choose not to attend your program or were you unable to due to Boren Awards telling you you couldn't go?
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I heard back as well - alternate
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1 hour ago, lexiree123 said:
Anyone else holding their breath today?? I'll be refreshing my email nonstop until 11:59 PM haha! Good luck to us all?
I'm waiting on a tweet like this today, if I don't see it by like 3PM I assume it won't be today
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Just now, AONomad said:
If last year after covid had already started they managed April 15, I'm hoping they can do it again now that most people's work-from-home flow has improved
Ahaha good point, fingers crossed!
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Okay, here are the announcement dates since 2015 I think:
2015: Tuesday April 21, 2015
2016: Monday April 18, 2016
2017: Monday April 17, 2017
2018: Sometime during the third week of April 16-20th
2019: Monday April 15, 2019
2020: Wednesday April 15, 2020
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5 minutes ago, foreignpolicy123 said:
when do we think results will come out?? tomorrow? i am so nervous
It's probably going to come out this Friday (afternoon-evening probably) or next Monday. I don't think they would release it on a Thursday.
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Patience is key! I am sure we will get good news soon. In the meanwhile, the NSEP Annual Report for 2020 was released a couple of weeks ago. Worth taking a look at, maybe that will help us during this wait!
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10 minutes ago, AONomad said:
I think a lot of people who would have been applying to Boren (i.e. cared about foreign policy) wouldn't have wanted to work for Trump. So there were probably fewer people thinking about getting onto career tracks Boren has relation to.
Even though Trump had a decent level of support within government, the foreign policy field almost universally condemned him. Especially people abroad who had to deal with the consequences of his heavy-handed rhetoric.
I'd think this only marginally effected applicants. In 2015, NSEP reported that there were 1,135 applications, and 271 awarded (Scholar/Fellow). That was while Obama was under office, and I am sure many thought Clinton was going to be in office. Compared to 2018, its very similar numbers. Plus, certainly most Boren applicants would have been wise enough to realize that Trump was going to be a one termer (and even if two - still not much time for someone who is looking for a career in public service).
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Just now, Msf1997 said:
Oh that's true. I was just focusing on percentages, but overall numbers is pretty important too. I wonder what caused so manyless people to apply 2019/2020?
I am not really sure. On the global stage, 2019 did have a lot of protests, political turmoil, and Brexit happened. We also did know about COVID in December, but it was "just" in China. Trump was also impeached around that time wasn't he? So there is a chance that dismayed many on applying by Jan/Feb.
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1 hour ago, Msf1997 said:
"In 2020, the national nominating panel selected 119 Boren Fellows from 268 graduate applications and 217 Boren Scholars from 784 undergraduate applications."
So 27.6% for scholarships and 44.4% for fellowships in 2020. Hopefully the upwards trend continues!
I believe this trend upwards was due to a lesser amount of applications (1000+ in 2018 compared to only 784 in 2020). I think we will see this continue, due to COVID. While Ivy-league colleges in the US have seem record amounts of applications, that's mainly an isolated incident due to them dropping required test scores... undergraduate enrollment as a whole in 2020 actually fell by a couple percent. I can't imagine many students would be willing to travel right now, let alone live in a foreign country in these uncertain times.
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18 hours ago, AONomad said:
Those are some really cool stats, thanks for sharing! I wonder what the acceptance rate by language is... I applied for Mandarin, wonder if that's more competitive and maybe looking at the overall acceptance stat isn't as applicable
Of course! You bring up a good question. I tried searching for that stat, but the applications by language is not available, just overall. In 2018, Scholars had a 25% Acceptance Rate and Fellows had a 34% Acceptance Rate.
Erasmus Mundus Scholarships 2022
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