MidwestLove

Does anyone have any insight into the flexibility of fellowship dates? In other words, would I be able to postpone the "10 month grant period, from September through June," as is listed on my country page, for January-October? Does anyone have any experience rescheduling a Fulbright full grant? Many thanks, everyone.

I think that this man might be responsible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Duncan

Thanks, it's slightly reassuring to know F-H awards might open up fellowships from other grants, so thanks for your input Ofur and giru618. I have been loosing hope about my alternate place, but it's probably just as frozen at this point as the F-H announcements? Perhaps it's the long anticipation of the F-H, but it seems that it might set of a domino effect: someone will get the F-H and decline another grant, that other grant is awarded to a second person who them declines their department funding, then a third student...

Does anyone have the impression that the delay of the F-H announcement is creating a sort of fellowship bottleneck? I'm also an alternate for another grant, and I haven't heard anything (only the too familiar assurances that they will let me know at an allusive "next week" or, worst yet, "soon") for some 6 weeks. My guess is that the students who were awarded this grant are holding on to it until news from the F-H. Any thoughts on this? Has anyone had experience with the prolonged alternate status? I have to admit, however, that I agree with some earlier posts: I'm treading this cycle as a loss and have started revising proposals for the next year

damn, me too, just got the rejection. too bad, my adviser was most optimistic about this one. which other grants are you waiting for, presumably ones geared toward east europe?