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I don't think we can say with much certainty why we got the award and others didn't. For what it's worth, I had a pretty good GPA (coming out of undergrad) and GRE scores, as well as a research topic that could have broad impacts across several DoD-related fields. Also a fair amount of practical design work in the aerospace field, though only a year of real research (first and second author on two conference papers). Very little community service or extra stuff like that, and I didn't spend much time actually doing the application/essay; about two days total.

Lol I'll give you an address to mail it to if you want.

Yeah just got the award package as well. I actually thought about posting it for a second, but quickly regained my sanity.

Haha he's not me, but he may have a point about the conspiracy theories, especially since you're now thinking one of us is conspiring to insult you under another name. By the way, thanks to the people who posted apologies, though you really didn't have to. I've been more amused than offended.

I don't really have anything else to say...

Really, even after everyone else receives their notifications and you compare the text of the emails? You're being a little ridiculous. Good luck.

Hmm...nope.

That's my guess too; my stuff is computational.

I think Hobbes is probably correct that it was the High Performance Computing office that sent out notifications, so I'm sure there are plenty of awards left.

Look, it is a little weird that they didn't send out all the notifications at once, but that's what happened. There's really no point in questioning the validity of the notifications that were sent out, since it's clear that there are still both awards and rejections pending.

Yep, thanks for the warm welcome.

Here. http://img717.imageshack.us/i/ndseg.png/ Conspiracy theories can be fun though, so by all means have at it.

NeuroJoe already posted the text of the email. Not sure what else I can do besides that.

Just FYI, you're not being trolled. I got an acceptance email around 3:30 as well (for aerospace).