Jimbo2

1/2 of the fellows have already been selected. this is fact, not a rumor, and i will not be citing my source

haha that's definitely the case. just look at the NSF GRFP pages. Roughly 1/2 of the people that applied and posted on this website received the fellowship, yet the actual amount of people getting the fellowship is 1/10.

I'd take a look at fisheries programs. Depending on the research, it may be more important to have strong quantitative skills than knowledge of biology in the context of fish. Plenty of fisheries grad students have bachelor's degrees in statistics or other heavily quantitative fields.

submitted. 1 LoR to go.

whelp after 6 months, my essays are finally done. of course my LoR writers like to turn letters in at the last moment, so the stress level will remain high haha

yeah i'm having a similar issue. my research is in fisheries, which was a field last year, but now i'll have to pick ecology as a field, which is kind of scary because ecology is a pretty vast field. i just hope the keywords on my proposed research will get my essays to reviewers familiar with fish. sounds like you'll be in a similar boat

my understanding was that you just uploaded a pdf of it, which you can get by doing File->Print and clicking pdf. is that not what everyone else is doing?

LOR/Research experience > GPA > GRE

glad they pushed back the LoR dates. i remember last year i was like "uh hey so i've been doing research in your lab for 3 weeks but i'm gonna need a letter in a month... thanks!" it turned out well, but still i could see that going bad.

i'm into ecology. what's up?

my impression from two application seasons was that research experience > GPA = letters of rec > GRE. definitely up the research experience

i want to go to bed but i have a feeling that the servers will be even more clogged tomorrow morning

anyone have a ubiquitous last name that got the award so i can check if my search is working? according to my searches, nobody with the last name jones got the award

pics or it didn't happen

I can't get anything to load and haven't got an email yet. I'll take limbo though - fellows and HM only right?

does anyone know if we will have access to the reviewer comments right when we get our acceptance/HM/rejection?

That's too bad. Last year I applied to a school that just took my money, sent me an email that acknowledged they had my application, and that was the last I heard from them. This was a well known school, too.

Hi guys. I'm going to be interviewing with a PI that I want to work with in the near future. He wants me to meet his current graduate students during/after the interview and I was wondering if you could help me with some good questions to ask them. This is a fieldwork based lab in life sciences rather than a lab lab, if that helps. Thanks a lot!