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It seems strange that acceptance and rejection e-mails would go out separately, especially seprated by several hours. Like some have said, they might be going by discipline, though I still feel like they'd send everything out at once.

After reading some of your advice, I feel it's necessary to point out that School C was actually my first choice (they're a top 5 program). Also, although I agree that being a TA would still allow me to do research my first year, it does have the added burden of teaching duties, which reduces the time that can be spent performing research. In that sense, it is advantageous to start off as an RA from the beginning in terms of workload and time spent researching. In any case, I'm pursuing the offer further, and I'll be notifying the first professor that I'm looking at other alternatives should his funding situation prohibit my joining his research group. Hopefully this will all be settled in a week or so.

So, I was accepted to three universities for graduate school, one of which is the school at which I'm currently finishing undergrad in aerospace engineering. I received an offer from school A for a GRA position, but wasn't interested in the research topic, so I declined admission there. School B, the one I'm currently attending, offered me a GTA position, and I received an unofficial offer from a professor doing some great research for a GRA position. When I met with said professor, the position sounded like a sure thing. School C, when I contacted them, said they would be unable to offer any funding. With this information, I accepted admission to School B. However, about a week ago the professor I had spoken with informed me that some unexpected financial issues had risen, and he would be re-evaluating his GRA offers to determine whether they were feasible. I have yet to hear his final decision. A couple of days ago, I was contacted by a professor at School C offering to discuss their research for a possible GRA position. Now, I wholeheartedly believe that it would be best for me to do research from the outset, as my goal is to obtain a Ph.D. However, I'm not sure what the best course of action is. If the first professor informs me he will no longer be able to fund me, that would sway my decision towards attending School C if I was offered a GRA position there instead of taking a GTA position. The problem is that I have already accepted admission here. I'm wondering whether it would be useful to pursue the second offer I received, and, if the first offer falls through, if it would even be possible to "switch" my admission to the other school. Any thoughts?

I was rejected as of 6:07 EST. Last year of undergrad in Aero.

One of the first ones to claim they received a notification also said their friend got a rejection. So, who knows.

As a friend just told me, "Just like they were all going to be sent out on Friday?"

Here's what we need to do. Build a near light speed vehicle and fly around in it for, say, half an hour. According to Einstein, it should be Tuesday or so for the rest of humanity at that point, so we will likely have gotten all the notifications. Also, guaranteed funding for life for building the near light speed vehicle.

I'd have to say there's little chance the full results will be released over the weekend. The only way that would happen (being that all of the agencies involved are government-run) is if the entire process were automated and ASEE actually already has the list of recipients, in which case I'd have expected some sort of batch e-mail. There's been a few claims of people who have received notifications (a few on here, and one I saw using google real-time results), but I wouldn't put much faith into those being legit at this point.

Leave it to the U.S. government to set a generic deadline ("around the second week of April"), then change it to a specific day and tell people about it the day before, then completely miss that deadline.

Yeah. Any notification will be sent to my gmail, so it would show up almost instantaneously after they send it...and I still don't have anything.

I'd be OK with them giving us all fellowships...

Agreed. Although, I did find out I was offered a GTA position yesterday, and was contacted by a professor offering me a research assistantship today, so at least I had that going for me. It would be nice to find out about the NDSEG, though...certainly would make some decisions easier.