orangewaterbottle

Finally heard back at 1:50 pm Eastern, awarded the grant for Archaeology! No score given, and they want to fund my COVID plan. This was my third time applying so don't give up ?

Thanks! Generally, the cutoff for funding is 2.33 or lower from what I have seen in previous years. As for the proposal, what I've understood is that they look favorably on people that are using the WG to build upon a relatively solid project, not as the only basis for the funding. While there is obviously room for differences in this, I was told to gear it more as a diss improvement grant in the sense of what it additionally allows you to explore with your dissertation, so pilot/preliminary data is a positive. But if there's input from others definitely chime in!

Have there been any acceptances yet? I'm still waiting for an email.

@Coffee Snob I still haven't gotten an email, but I don't know if that's just a fluke on their end. I have yet to see any successful awards on twitter or on the wiki.

I think it's odd they haven't released yet. Last year they told the finalists on April 9th. I'm stressed because they haven't told us yet, and my department requires us to submit our grant for internal review 10 business days before submission. Which means I have to have a rewrite of the grant with reviewer comments and my resubmission statement submitted to my department this coming Monday. Every day that passes, the more stressful my week becomes ?

Yo the new application is AWFUL. I wish they would have asked for feedback before launching it. For future applicants in the May cycle: They are trying to "de-identify" the grant, so there is no more CV required, and the bibliography and budgets need to be de-identified. I'm not really sure how this works especially since your proposal explicitly asks you to address yourself and how you are prepared/equipped to do this research. You can no longer preview your grant prior to submission (!!!!!!), so if you need to submit your grant for university internal review you'll have to save each page as a pdf and send it that way. You can adjust the size of the text boxes by dragging the lines in the bottom left corner, then export the page as a PDF or print the page as a PDF. Then you need to get all those single pages in one document. Finally, that submit button at the end does not mean submit the pdf documents to be uploaded (like it was in Survey Monkey platform). It means submit the whole entire grant to the foundation. Luckily, since my institution requires us to go through their internal review I made this mistake 2 weeks early and they released my application back to be. HOWEVER, if you make this mistake, when you do your final submission ALL the documents will be present in your submission (you'll get like 8 pdfs with the old application submission and the new application submission). So then I had to write them again and ask them to make sure the old documents were deleted so that some reviewer out there wasn't reading an old version. I hope they make changes in the future. That was one of the worst submission experiences I've had.

My friends who applied for bio have been waiting as well and mentioned it's been much longer than the last cycle to get a response. I'm bioarch and applied through arch. Arch DDIG usually takes 3 months and I've been waiting for over 3. I'm not sure why everything is taking so much time. I was encouraged to reach out to the program director, so it might be worth emailing Farrell and asking for an update?

Hope you found it. For people who are applying next cycle, it's located on Page 3 (coding). You have to select that it is a resubmission, and then the text box appears.