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Hey @EnGarde thanks for the quick reply! Just to get a better idea of the specific level of schools (because it seems like there are pretty strict divides in CS, and if you're rejected from Stanford they don't really care for changing admissions decisions even if you have an award for example) without revealing identifying info., could you list the school along with peers in the same level in CS? E.g. was it Stanford/MIT/CMU or UW/UCSD/UCLA, etc. Also, in regards to your last point about needing to deploy the award in the field of study you applied to: so I applied to computationally intensive research within the Psych. discipline (I felt it most fit what I was looking for). I'm assuming enrolling in a CS program (as opposed to a Psych or Neuro program) would be fine—but do you think they may be a little stricter than that?

Thank you for your guidance @EnGarde! If you don't mind me asking, what MS program did the ugrad end up going to? Just want to assess at which tier of CS schools this sort of fellowship has sway on admissions.

Well, I thought I had a chance since 2/3 of my recommenders were BCS alums but I guess not. Good luck nonetheless!

So, my top choice is MIT and earlier today I was notified that I was awarded the NSF GRFP. The thing is though that I haven't heard back from BCS since submitting my app in December (i.e. no interview). Do you think there is still a chance I'd be admitted given the fellowship?

Hey everyone, so I'm in that weird position where I've received the NSF GRFP but I've gotten rejected from all 9 schools I applied to. What do I do now? I'm happy from the good news this morning, but feeling like it doesn't really matter... My research area is neuro + machine learning btw and I'm graduating from an Ivy league school (pretty avg GPA).

Hey, I've been lurking on this forum throughout this application cycle and I just had a few things to say: CMU PNC/Systems Neuro. interview invites and interview events have all been completed. Final decisions are being sent in the next few weeks. Does anyone know when we should expect to hear back from NIH OxCam? I feel that the program leadership/faculty interactions I had during the interview events went quite well, but I bombed the interview (last week). Very much an outsider to the normal biomedical track, but I honestly have come to see this program as my top choice after the interview events. Any insights as to when decisions are released for OxCam or other GPP programs would very much be appreciated!