almondmilk

Help! Any appeal stories out there? Hi all. I received an honorable mention in the NSF GRFP competition this year, and my reviews have only left my baffled... I got glowing reviews, except that two reviewers said that I didn't connect my project to existing literature. This is baffling because.... I did. The entire second paragraph in my proposal does just that. It's like they somehow just completely missed that part of the proposal. It just doesn't make any sense, and I don't even know what to think. I would really like to somehow bring this to the attention of the program officers in hopes that they could perhaps give my application another look? Normally I wouldn't be one to appeal a decision like this, but since the only criticism I got is an objective matter that I can refute/correct by simply pointing them to the correct portion of my proposal, I feel like it is worth a shot. Does anyone know of any successful appeal stories? Or should I just accept this as one of those times when life doles out a crappy hand? Any advice/insight would be much appreciated!

Hi all. I received an honorable mention in the NSF GRFP competition this year, and my reviews have only left my baffled... I got glowing reviews, except that two reviewers said that I didn't connect my project to existing literature. This is baffling because.... I did. The entire second paragraph in my proposal does just that. It's like they somehow just completely missed that part of the proposal. It just doesn't make any sense, and I don't even know what to think. I would really like to somehow bring this to the attention of the program officers in hopes that they could perhaps give my application another look? Normally I wouldn't be one to appeal a decision like this, but since the only criticism I got is an objective matter that I can refute/correct by simply pointing them to the correct portion of my proposal, I feel like it is worth a shot. Does anyone know of any successful appeal stories? Or should I just accept this as one of those times when life doles out a crappy hand? Any advice/insight would be much appreciated!