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I emailed yesterday and they said we will be finding out by both email and mail the last week of April or the first week of May.

I haven't received any emails, but this could be because I applied for the fellowship?

Cool, no problem! Sounds interesting. I'm in aerospace engineering.

Hey everyone, whenever you email the spreadsheet email your information, be sure to include all of the relevant stuff--like what address it was sent to (current or permanent), the notification date, the postmark date, the notification method, etc. Also, if you want any other information on the spreadsheet (e.g., email address), please be sure to make a note of this, otherwise it will not be listed. Thanks! Congratulations to all those who have found out already, and good luck to those who haven't!

Is there a way we can make it to where all of the changes have to be approved by the admin(s)? Or would that be too much trouble? I would be willing to offer up some time to look over changes and make sure they aren't bogus.

This board is for people who applied to the Boren Scholarship/Fellowship for 2011-2012. We can share our results, notification dates, etcetera (much like is being done on the Fulbright 2011-2012 forum). If we get enough people, we can make a spreadsheet that has information about the results. This should prove helpful for those who come after us.

Mail it yourself with some sort of delivery notification (e.g., delivery confirmation, return receipt requested). It costs more, but then you can at least be sure that it showed up and that they have it. :-]

I find it interesting too. Maybe us engineers are generally less adventurous, who knows... I don't know what it is like at your school, but our program has really been pushing study abroad the past couple of years... Just four or five years ago, we hardly had any engineering study abroad programs at all, and now we have a ton. So, maybe that will lead to more engineers applying for these types of things.

No, I haven't found out yet. I hope to find out in the next one to two weeks though! Congratulations on your acceptance! It is definitely nice to see another engineer on this forum. There was a small amount of overlap between Boren and Fulbright. Fortunately, the deadline for Boren wasn't until February, so I had plenty of extra time to craft my application. Yeah, I get them all confused too. I think Boren is mainly for people who plan on getting a job related to national security someday. My adviser told me they haven't been getting as many math/science type people as they would like to, so I thought it would be a good backup plan in case if Fulbright falls through (here's to hoping it doesn't, though)!

Same thing happened to me too!

I applied to Australia as well and Akeley told me the same thing (about two weeks ago). I was wondering about the discrepancy as well... I'm pretty sure the spreadsheet from last year might be wrong because all of the people that listed a date found out on the same date, which seems unlikely. Then, other people listed no date at all. I've just been trying to convince myself that the notifications won't arrive till mid-April, so I can stop thinking about this so much, but it isn't working very well, haha.

I sent him an email several weeks ago asking about Australia, and he said applications are typically sent out mid-April, but that there is no definitive time as to when they will be sent out this year. The spreadsheet from last year said the people for Australia had found out by this time, but I'm starting to wonder if that was an error in the spreadsheet...

I had a hard time explaining my project as well (GPS-related). Thankfully, our campus review process consisted of professors from technical and nontechnical fields who provided me with valuable feedback on how to say what I needed to say. In general, I think what you said about engineers is true. I know probably twenty engineers who applied to four or five different graduate schools each, but none of them applied for any scholarships or fellowships like the Fulbright or Boren, respectively.

Hi all, I've been following this board for a while, but I hadn't posted yet (I finally caved in today). In any case, is anybody else a finalist for Australia? Good luck to all the other candidates!