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I just found out that I've reached my quota of positive votes for the day...

Let's stop worrying about whether or not the other notifications were real. What is more important is to find out when the rest of them will be released. (By the way, this must be the latest NDSEG has waited in recent history, right?)

I just called the office and was told by the operator that she won't know when they will release the decisions for this year's competition until her supervisor comes in later in the day.

If money is not a problem, go to Cambridge. They have an awesome program there and I'm sure it will help you get where you want to be much more than NYU will, for instance.

It would have been nice when I called if the operator at least told me that she didn't know when they would be releasing decisions. Giving us a definite answer and then leaving that promise unfulfilled somehow doesn't surprise me though, considering we're dealing with a federal graduate fellowship program.

...or learning of the result while drunk

Yeah, I thought so too. I don't know why I'm so anxiously awaiting what is almost certain to be a rejection.

I just hope that a lot of the NDSEG winners this year are people who DIDN'T win the NSF GRFP. There always seems to be a lot of overlap, although the NSF evaluation panel members seem to be especially capricious.

Ja, hast du mal in Deutschland gelebt? Out of curiosity, has anyone called today to ask about the time at which they will announce the winners? This is driving me crazy...

That makes two of us. Viel Glück!

I figure that if I didn't get the NSF fellowship, I won't get the NDSEG fellowship either since it's supposedly more prestigious (according to several of my professors). I don't know what the acceptance rate is for my field (mathematics) though...

In my opinion, even if you have the money I don't think it is worth it. Take a year and reapply; the masters offer from NYU is just a way for them to get more money.

I called about five minutes ago and the operator informed me that the results will definitely be released tomorrow via email.

In my opinion, you cannot go wrong paying for a Harvard degree. Go to Harvard!

Last year: E/E, E/VG, E/VG This year: G/G, G/G ??

Last year I spent almost no time preparing my application and ended up with an HM after submitting it two minutes prior to the deadline. This year, I spent *much* more time preparing the essays and also added several new awards and a publication only to receive a flat rejection. I suppose this is the last time I'll be applying to the NSF GRFP.

I'm sorry; my comment was the result of being told that "it's OK, you'll do fine" after a plethora of rejections this year. I didn't mean for my comment to be incendiary in any way.

Please keep the insincere comments to yourself. Such a comment from someone who just won an award doesn't really make those who didn't feel that great...

HM last year, nothing showing up this year after a significantly improved application.

Personally, the only reason I'd like to know soon is so that I can try to use it as a bargaining chip to have my application reconsidered at the schools by which I was already rejected. I realize that this hope is a long-shot, but I figure that three years of external funding might have some pull in having an admissions decision reversed (should the fellowship be awarded to me this year!).

Right, but not everyone knows how the NSF chooses their fellows.

If you want to study for a graduate degree in a top statistics program, you are going to eventually need to take a measure-theoretic course in probability theory. Of course, before you can take this class, you will need to have completed a year-long (usually) sequence in graduate analysis covering measure theory. Before taking this sequence in measure theory, you generally need at least a semester of rigorous undergraduate real analysis. Therefore, yes, you should take the hardest one.

I wish I had to worry about this topic (I myself was rejected by all of the California schools on my list).

Also, it appears that many people who do actually receive an HM one year think that they will automatically get a fellowship the following year. In fact, I have heard of several people being accorded an HM two years in a row, or even more surprisingly an HM the first year and a flat rejection the second. (In response to a direct inquiry, the NSF told me that no information about any previous applications is used in the current fellowship cycle.)

By the way, it appears that the moderators removed the econ. person's claim that he/she won the NSF already this year.