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got the answering machine....they said " for panel evaluations please call 301-965-5167" that number just rings. called ndseg back and got a person. she said they expect to send out all award notifications tomorrow, however they have not recieved the list from the dod yet (and could be as late as early next week). she said, however they do expect the list soon and can call back as early as later today.....

thanks for the -1 rep points......'NOT sorry if upset someone by pointing out, or rather "quipping," on facts regarding the undeniable exponentially increasing socialist agenda of the US govt. which has already been discussed in this thread [so yes be aware there are tea-partiers and birthers in technical fields and yes I am aware its not Obama doing - since it trully started in the 1850s with radical republican reconstruction]. ANYWAYS....not lookin to troll....NEW topic on NSF anyone?

i think an african american out of the closet gay woman in a wheelchair (because a purple heart war vet) who is a single mother of......5?......and became an american from fleeing persecution of another nation would be even better!

i say april 14th 15:35 EST! is there anyway to just post all of what we wrote? maybe we can create a database of winner and non winner essays from all universities? by the end of my app, I was tired of going to the graduate department to review past winners. ps had a dream last night that NSF posted the results. But the only way to view them was to look at the list (not fastweb results but past winners) and search the last name without choosing a year [ie blind search]. Any one well studied in Freud and Jung? I think I'm going insane!

i called ndseg....they said mid april....so I would expect nothing sooner

I wonder what is worse.....human professors or the BCS algo as the panel.....

thanks. I agree. I dont believe it makes a significant change in the statistics of chosen students, however, knowing the federal government and "hints" they place in the wording leads me to believe it is not completely merit based. The question still remains, to what extent is there an agenda for the reviewers? I would assume pre-review would sway decisions too much, post review for boarderline cases would be more appropriate. Unless somone here joins the panel in 20 years, I doubt we will ever know.

on the first page of the thread ""The computer first surveys all the QGI members to determine if each state is represented among the awardees. If, for example, no one who has graduated from high school in Alabama is in QGI and one is available in QGII, he or she will be chosen. ... If the state search does not fill the available slots, a second pass is done for gender balance, followed by disciplinary balance and proportional equivalence between [pre-grad school] and [current grad student] applicants." " 2010 application announcment " A high priority for NSF and GRFP is increasing the diversity of the science and engineering workforce, including geographic distribution and the participation of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities." It seems to me up for interp. Are they saying that the GRFP wants the diversity and geographic distribution for broad impact? or are the outright saying they will, as stated in the first quote, give preferential treatment to those in less represented areas? *food for thought*

So Ive read alot online about how the GRFP gives weight to minorities, women, the disabled, and geographic location. Does anyone know if they go into the review process with that criteria in mind for a certain applicant, or is everyone on the same playing field and the "other" factors are considered for boarder line cases once everyone has been considered?