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I absolutely do not think that. I am not from USA so I can't comment how they do these things at your DAAD section, but here at least, almost all information went out in bursts. More or less everybody learnt about rejections/acceptances withing minutes of each other. Take from that what you will. Still, I wouldn't take the absence of an answer as a negative.

Congrats on the scholarship ?! You will probably get the letter soon, but the status change is more or less the definitive answer.

2.5 years industry work, 5+ years community work in field, research and teaching work at university, intl awards in field, professional sports, quite a bit of extra curricular activities, advanced programs in Uni and HS.... So quite a bit of an overachiever.... But don't take this at face value. Interview and motivation letter are by far the most important elements of the selection. There were some better candidates then me who didn't get the scholarship, but I did pretty well in the interview and I think that that is what pushed me through. From what the letter of award said, 9 people from Serbia, not all of the Balkans. To be honest that is such a low number of people to select for ALL master disciplines, I can't even image how hard it is to select only a handful of students.

Study Scholarship for Master Studies of All Disciplines dropped today for Serbia. I got a message in the portal telling me that I got the scholarship, and the language course request. They told me that I will receive the rest of the documents in the following two weeks. One of my friends ended up not getting it, and they told him that they only accepted 9 people in total :(