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That's true. I just know that on her panel they were told to pick 15 applicants. However, my guess is that number of "forwarded" applicants might possibly be increased or decreased, depending on region. She made it seem like the regional level did most of the "heavy lifting", with the national board just confirming their decisions.

I know this isn't much help after the fact but I work with a woman who sits/sat on one of the Scholarship review panels. This is how she explained it: A group gets together for one region and chooses 15 applicants (10 recipients and 5 alternates). They send those 15 applications to the National Review Board where they just confirm that the regional panels made the best decision (apparently, there may be some switching out between alternates or awardees). People who were not among those 15 applicants are basically rejected. ( I find this to be the most frustrating part as people could've been told of this status in late March/early April.) At no point did she say that they email applicants about updated funding but thinks that this must be done by the National panel. Speaking to a current Boren Fellow, she confirmed that she never received any emails from the Boren committee between the time she submitted her application and when she was told she was a 2010 Boren Fellow. Anyways, I hope some of this information helps. -Bibliotek