zkasim2

It depends I think on how many alternates they nominate altogether and how high are you in the ranking of alternates (I'm sure they have a ranking). My award letter reads that I have to accept or decline the award by April 19th, and so I think all alternates will hear from SSRC a couple of days after April 19th. Considering that IDRF fellowship winners are announced rather late -- after the announcements had been made for majority of similar diss research grants, I'd assume that a bunch of people who got another large grant (the rules stipulate one can't hold two large grants simultaneously), would decline the IDRF award, as they already accepted another one.
Best of luck to you, fingers crossed!

I received an email and was awarded. No change to the portal. Good luck all. I’ve been rejected more times than I can count. 

Congratulations! 

I got an email from IDRF that I was awarded.

Hi all, I just got an email from IDRF (at 3:17 pm ET) that I was provisionally awarded this fellowships (provisional on a written acceptance). Best of luck to everyone else who is still waiting or had been nominated as an alternate. 
Also, this is the third year I've been applying to this fellowship, and this is only the first time I made it to the finalist round. So if this is first or second time for you, please, keep applying!

Congrats to you too!!

Congrats!!

Hi all, I just got an email from IDRF (at 3:17 pm ET) that I was provisionally awarded this fellowships (provisional on a written acceptance). Best of luck to everyone else who is still waiting or had been nominated as an alternate. 
Also, this is the third year I've been applying to this fellowship, and this is only the first time I made it to the finalist round. So if this is first or second time for you, please, keep applying!

Just got the email - I was one out of 60 provisional awardees 

Oh wow congrats I guess we’ll all see then. 
 
good luck!

Ha! I feel you on that. Although, I am trying to get as much writing done as I can before the potentially bad news arrives!

I was really hoping we would get an email at 3 pm ET today. This wait is preventing me from fully focusing on my writing. Ugh.

I was really hoping we would get an email at 3 pm ET today. This wait is preventing me from fully focusing on my writing. Ugh.

In 2020 and 2019 the results were released on April 8th. That doesn't guarantee anything for this year, but I'm hoping for tomorrow.

Hi! Apologies if I had unwittingly given you a new bout of anxiety with my comment. In the last 3 years I heard it repeatedly from various people that those finalists who are ranked higher, do not get a request for transcripts. It was solely based on anecdotal evidence, and after digging deeper today (here: https://academicjobs.wikia.org/wiki/Dissertation_Fellowships_2021-2022#SSRC_-_IDRF), I see that this is inaccurate., and like you said, all finalists get a transcript request. 
Hopefully, we will hear good news soon! I am basically only waiting for IDRF at this point - received rejections form a bunch of other places already.

Hi! Apologies if I had unwittingly given you a new bout of anxiety with my comment. In the last 3 years I heard it repeatedly from various people that those finalists who are ranked higher, do not get a request for transcripts. It was solely based on anecdotal evidence, and after digging deeper today (here: https://academicjobs.wikia.org/wiki/Dissertation_Fellowships_2021-2022#SSRC_-_IDRF), I see that this is inaccurate., and like you said, all finalists get a transcript request. 
Hopefully, we will hear good news soon! I am basically only waiting for IDRF at this point - received rejections form a bunch of other places already.

@zkasim2 Why does a transcript request put applicants in the lower tiers? Did you hear this from some source? I also had a transcript request - I was told that all finalists were asked for transcripts. 
I am hoping the decision is released sooner rather than later, the waiting is killing me....

No word on anything yet. I think we will hear something by April 10th or so.
Last year, acceptance/ rejection letters were sent on April 8th I think.
I am not really holding my breath as I had a transcript request which already means I was not in a "top tier", so my chances are rather slim, given also my marginal research area in a discipline (history) which is rarely funded by IDRF. And finally, the number of awards this year is 60, as opposed to 70+ in previous years. 

No word on anything yet. I think we will hear something by April 10th or so.
Last year, acceptance/ rejection letters were sent on April 8th I think.
I am not really holding my breath as I had a transcript request which already means I was not in a "top tier", so my chances are rather slim, given also my marginal research area in a discipline (history) which is rarely funded by IDRF. And finally, the number of awards this year is 60, as opposed to 70+ in previous years. 

Anyone else waiting on any of the ACLS fellowship and grant programs? I applied to the central fellowship program (which this year was reserved for untenured researchers). 

Congratulations!
 
I also got a transcript request and "finalist status." I assume everyone who gets the request has that status?
The evaluation steps are listed on the IDRF website faq.
 
 

The exact numbers will become clearer once the rejections are released, but right now receiving request for transcript only means we're past the first round. If previous years are anything to go by, around 250 applicants make it to the second round and of those only 60-70 are eventually selected.

Request for Transcript received (Feb 5 10:20am MST)

Transcript request received (Feb 5th)

Request for transcripts received (12:08 ET, February 5th)