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In answer to this (and as info for future applicants who have the same question): NSF uses z-scores to standardize the numerical scores that reviewers give applicants (which you don't get to see) — basically, if you get a reviewer who was harsh with everyone they reviewed, it adjusts for that, and likewise adjusts for if you got a reviewer who gave everyone high scores. This process is still a total crapshoot but the TL;DR is that the E/VG/G thing masks a numerical score, and that numerical score is further adjusted after the conclusion of the reviewing process. Also keep in mind that they try to award proportionally to broader subfields (social sciences, etc.) based on applicant volume in each subfield, so you might have just wound up in an unusually strong subfield pool.

Dear 2022-23 thread, 
The Tuesday/Friday pattern is no more. Please apply your anxieties toward new speculations concerning the inner workings of the NSF.
Cheers, 
-the 2021-22 thread
Here is one *provocative* theory for your consideration:
  

looks like you were right, except the 6 was upside down :0

looks like you were right, except the 6 was upside down :0

Looking back at the last few years' threads, it seems like we'll know the last week of March yikes

Now means now apparently. Just got the notification!

Now means now apparently. Just got the notification!

Now means now apparently. Just got the notification!

Now means now apparently. Just got the notification!

Now means now apparently. Just got the notification!

Now means now apparently. Just got the notification!

Not sure about you, but whenever I have 160 emails to send out, I make sure to stagger them over a 50 hour period. 

I just called the number on their site and a woman there said acceptance emails will start being sent tonight and go through Friday. How hard is it to do it all at once and not extend our misery like that…

Me last week: man they're taking so long, why can't we hear back already
Me right now: no pls this is too soon

Me last week: man they're taking so long, why can't we hear back already
Me right now: no pls this is too soon

Me last week: man they're taking so long, why can't we hear back already
Me right now: no pls this is too soon

One more sleep.... 

Petition to start the 2023 GRFP thread now so the results will never come

Petition to start the 2023 GRFP thread now so the results will never come

Wait, but isn’t this suggesting that at lower page counts that the results are released earlier? So we should all stop posting if we want the results? ?

Look, I know I said 6 pages, but after gathering the critical data, it might need to be more like 10 or 20 for them to release the results April 1 ?

You are in for a lot of disappointment with academia.

lowkey sure that GRFP is doing this to increase the amount of panic attacks we get and weed out the weak

lowkey sure that GRFP is doing this to increase the amount of panic attacks we get and weed out the weak

lowkey sure that GRFP is doing this to increase the amount of panic attacks we get and weed out the weak