Mynah

I got a e-mail from the India Fulbright Office. It was rather strange. 1) " You mayemail/FEDEX/fax your bank information to Mr. Neeraj Goswami (neeraj@usief.org.in)so that we can write your official grant award document." Wait they want me to send them my banking details before they tell me what my official grant award entails? I haven't seen any details on the stipend.

i'm in North Carolina. My letter was postmarked 4/8/2011. I will be based in Varanasi.

OMG!!!! OMG!!!! Just received a large manila envelope . I won a Full Grant to India!!!!!! I am over the moon.!

This comment is totally uncalled for. Crimson is doing an awesome job and I for one am really grateful to him for keep continually fixing the spreadsheet.

It seems that the ETA's for India are getting results. http://blog.al.com/live/2011/04/uab_krish_varma_fulbright_scholar.html I wonder when they will send out letters to the others?

Why are all the India finalists so quiet? I am also wondering why one applicant was informed that he/she was accepted long before the rest of us?

I don't know what this means , but Dukepress sent a tweet on the 24th Of March saying: "Congrats! MT @cmcgranahan: got Fulbright for new project: Refugees & Citizenship: Tibetan Practices of Pol. Subjectivity in Postcol. India" But to me it seems to imply that some people have already been notified that they have won a Fulbright award to India?

Italia2011: The bad news is that being a grad is actually not an advantage in winning a Fulbright award. In 2009 - 49% of the winners were undergrads, with another 31% being PhD students the balance were MA students. Good luck though!

You are completely correct I think. I believe they want a copy of your current transcript as well as one from any institution that you received a prior degree from? I quote from the e-mail I received: "Pleasearrange to have official transcripts from your currentacademic institution (if enrolled) and allinstitutions from which you received a Bachelor’s or Master’s or doctoraldegree sent to: OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTSU.S. StudentProgramsInstitute of International Education809 United Nations PlazaNew York,NY 10017 IIE mustreceive these transcripts by March 1, 2011 at the latest in order for you tocontinue to be considered for a 2011-12 Fulbright grant." .

Nescafe: I totally agree with your analysis! Last year I applied - I have a 4.0 GPA had great affiliation letters an awesome research plan. I was positive I was a shoe in for the Fulbright. BUT due to optimal space utilization in my essays I had omitted most of my non-academic intent and was rejected in the first round. Also my research area had the potential to be controversial in the country I selected.

Ryan B: If you send me an e-mail address I could possibly put you in contact with some of the senior players in the anti-apartheid movement (especially in the ANC) Can't promise you Mandela but I do have a friend who works for him.

Rachaelski: NOOOOO ! As I said to Albanski give it another shot next year!

I just got an e-mail . Research finalist in India. Albanski: This is my second year of applying - last year I was rejected in the first round. Ryan B : Where in South Africa are you going?

Rachaelski: Madame Cleo sees you crossing many waters to do your research on a Fulbright!

I think "Congrats" are in order - I can't imagine her being "pleased with the results" if you didn't get through to the next round.

CONGRATS!!!! Definitely will keep my fingers crossed for all the others too. Rachaelski: Don't stress it. Your advisors message means nothing - I think he/she would have been a little more consoling if you didn't make it. As for myself I am not feeling all that confident at this moment. I wish I knew why I got rejected last year so I could have made the necessary changes. My advisors ranked me the highest of applicants last year and I didn't make it past round 1????

I am guessing they inform the advisors a day ahead of applicants so they can either buy tissues at Costco or find a bunker to lay low in.

Being rejected by them doesn't hurt much - after a year or so it gets better

I was rejected by the Fulbrighters in the first round last year even though my school ranked me highly - so being rejected a second time won't feel as bad. Maybe the Fulbright committee just aren't THAT into me.

I heard that the campus Fulbright advisors get notified a day before the applicants. So your advisor probably knows whether you made it to round two already.

One day left!!!! I can't sleep, I can't breathe..... Good luck everybody!!!! Hope you all get the Fulbright!

Sounds like good news to me. With the first round results coming out on the 24th , they wouldn't waste your or their time asking you to complete any more paperwork. So congrats!

I just got an e-mail it said "You have inherited 60 million dollars from a very distant relative in Nigeria" Maybe I won't be needing the Fulbright after all . LOL I am really too stressed to think of anything clever to write. I want the Fulbright, I don't care if I don't get it, I demand to get the Fulbright, Oh my life will be fab even without it, I must win a Fulbright..... Okay I am melting here. Please send me an e-mail soon - I have lots of other things I should be doing.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now this is really stressful! Six says and counting . Tick tock tick tock

Miss Cleo , is that you???? I think you are right.