DrBones

Winner winner, chicken dinner!

All I'm saying is thank goodness I'm in Arizona, so I don't have to wait up as late.

There was about a 20 minute delay for me personally between when I found outon the site, and received an e-mail. The e-mail came later.

Nevermind... now I get it.

I don't know that it's an "important" part, but certainly the reviewers want to see applicants working with advisers relevant to their fields of study. I also can't see it hurting to have a well known scholar in your field as your adviser. Just my two cents.

That's not entirely true. Part of the hold-up this year is that the meetings for the application reviewers were canceled in February due to a snow storm, and were rescheduled for March. I'm not saying that is justification for the amount of time they make us wait, but it's a factor.

I agree with Hekog. No mundane detail like that is going to make or break an application. Most of that personal information is strictly for demographic profiling anyways. So, sit back, relax as much as possible while we all wait to hear the news. Cheers. Good luck.

I really don't know what they were doing last year. It was some kind of weird hacker crap that I did not want to involve myself with. In the end they got their rating sheets like 2 days early. No one ever got the actual awardee list early I'm fairly sure. So... I'm just going to wait it out like everyone else. I have a good feeling that by tomorrow afternoon I'll get an e-mail from the National Science Foundation.

I couldn't have said it better. I think you're exactly right.

I don't know where you all get your ideas about GRE scores. Average GRE scores each year are reported at about a 460 Verbal and 570 quantitative. So, anything above a 1030 is above average. I know a young woman who received the award last year with a GRE score of 1120, which she submitted to them. A 1200 is a very good GRE score, that anyone should be proud of attaining. Over 1300 is statistically phenomenal. So, get back to reality and remember that we'll all smart people. I reiterate the fact that GRE scores count for very little in this program. I hope this makes some people feel better. Cheers. Here is a good link... http://testprep.about.com/od/thegretest/f/GRE_FAQ_Score.htm

You have to go to www.nsfgrfp.org, and at the bottom of that page there is a link to "view application rating sheets". It's not within fastlane.

And not to decrease anyone's heart rate, but that has been that way for a few weeks now.

That's absolutely correct. So, honestly, it could happen at any time. Lord knows why we all thought we would wait till 2:00am last year, but there was plenty of us who did, and posted the results to this site straight away. But, as was stated, it's officially "early April", so where's my friggin' notification already?

So it has begun. Last night I had, albeit about two weeks later than last year, my first dream about the award notifications. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to see if I received one. The list was posted, but I couldn't get to the right page of the list in time. I woke up, promptly to realize that I don't have ESP. Oh well...

I'm sticking with this Friday. Here's hoping...