[NSF GRFP 2014-2015]

First troll of this application cycle?

HAHAHA your dumb!

[NSF GRFP 2013-14]

G/G

VG/E

Only 2 reviews

Honorable mention

Hahhhhha

That one G/G judge that raves about my NSF, hhmi, NIH and cur funding and all my pubs, but still gives me average scores

Can't help but find it somewhat comical

 

Undergraduate application .... still got 2 more times

So watch out applicants next cycle

Good job to all!

[NSF GRFP 2013-14]

I am pre-writing what to tell my pi/advisor and my reference letter writers in the event of both a win or a loss. How exactly do y'all plan on telling them?

[NSF GRFP 2013-14]

Unfortunately, It is becoming more apparent that tonight is not going to be the night. It is now 9:00 P.M EDT. Fastlane will stop taking calls.     

Any information about it being released later than 9?

See you folks next week! How will y’all spend the weekend?

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[NSF GRFP 2013-14]

I doubt it, it would be very out of the ordinary for NSF to notify this way. 

All past sources indicate that the first thing that happens is that the fastlane site goes down for "maintenance". When the site goes live again, the results are posted here (https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do). Usually the website goes down at some awful hour in the morning, I've seen 2 - 5 AM EST as favorites. The other option is to wait until NSF emails the decision later that day. 

It would be very unorthodox for notifications to be sent out this way. Just my two cents.   

 

It does not surprise me, they did do the application process differently this year. Maybe, they changed the notification process as well. Still holding out hope for the best.

 

Congrats to all the winners!

[NSF GRFP 2013-14]

a couple of people claiming that they have won in the last few hours. Is it happening? 

[NSF GRFP 2013-14]

Opinion?

but i guess it is late now! Just submitted my application.

Would y'all have outlined things the same way I did?

Goodluck!

 

Instead of mentioning these things throughout my application, I reserved it to the final page of my personal statement. Would you guys have mentioned it though out or at the first? How would you have done things differently? I am concerned, because it looks different then any of the past example applications. Mostly, what i have seen is people saving about a 3rd of a page to list abstracts and publications. I took an entire page. O.o

 

In a nutshell:

first page - broader impacts of food microbiology, safe food supply, everyone eats

second page- graduated h.s in class of 3 people, first generation Hispanic, research starting, mentoring hearing impaired girl, outreach/recruiting to minority students

 

third page: I am questioning if I took too much of a risk listing these out instead of talking about them. Below is just the short version. That page listed extraneous detail about conference, journal, co-authors, monetary support

• 7 abstracts (first author)
• 1 publication (sixth author)
• 2 publications submitted (3rd author)
• 1 publication in preparation (1st author)
• undergraduate program support: NSF, NIH, HHMI, CUR

I will do it differently next cycle! Good luck! It really is like winning the lottery!