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Congrats papertiger311! I'm pretty sure that the "highly competitive" grants get awards.

If being an international student is a barrier to an IRA (it may be, I don't know), you should know that Vanguard (and others, I'm sure, but Vanguard has low fees) will allow you to open a "general purpose" investment account. You'll still need a minimum of $1000 to open it, and once you do that you can invest in a variety of mutual fund options, including some which are tailored towards young people aiming for retirement, such as the target 2050 retirement fund. Going this route will allow you to put money away towards retirement without some of the legal loopholes that might be associated with a formal IRA. The tradeoff is that you won't get the tax benefits of an IRA.

papertiger311 same for me. In my past experience the status is useless. I found out via email weeks before it's changed on the last submission (August 2013)

Did anyone here apply to STS? Have you heard anything yet?

Thanks Homo studensis! I've shifted gears from obsessively checking email to obsessively checking the postbox.

Ok, I'm feeling a little paranoid today. Has anyone received a definitive acceptance yet? I know they usually come in the mail about a week later, so it should be any day now.

Mata, in my experience, it seems like there is an initial first wave of rejections, and then there are sort of rolling waves of both acceptances and rejections. I've seen cases of there being more than a month between people in the same department being notified. Hang in there! No news isn't automatically good news, but it does mean you weren't in the first round of cuts.

What was I thinking checking this right now?! I have to go teach, and all I'm going to think about is checking my email. But thanks for the update, Xavi6!

I'm guessing one week from today, which is, historically speaking, extraordinarily late, but so were the first-round notifications. (but I'd also love for it to be tomorrow, that would be swell)

THANK YOU!!!

You could create a new, anonymous email account to email them from, but I'm not sure if they'd respond to that.

So it does... well, poo. It's very hard to plan my summer without knowing if I have funding.

I noticed yesterday that you are considered ineligible to apply to the next round if you still have not received notification from the previous round. http://www.wennergren.org/faq/apply-more That would really throw a wrench in my plans. Does anyone know if they've ever taken that long to send out notifications? Has anyone considered emailing them to see when we might expect to know?