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both are awarded in euros and both are 750/mo for germany. the daad will offer a rent stipend up to a total of 1000 euro if you can provide lease information and that your rent costs more than 30% of your monthly amount.

vautrin what did they say when you were first rejected then accepted? were you told you would be an alternate or just a flat reject and then an "oh sorry..." kind of deal?

you can apply for a rent subsidy if you have proper documentation of a lease and your rental fee is more than 30% of the monthly stipend. they will give you up to 1000 euros/ month. all that info comes in the packet they mail in april.

has anyone else applied for the graduate study scholarship in fine arts? are they on a different schedule? the website says all announcement dates are late march, but i haven't heard anything either way. additionally, those that were accepted...what specific grant did you apply for?

i believe i have applied for a different version of the grant than both of you. there are several different avenues offered by the daad, unlike the fulbright. the fine arts application has a completely different process and requirements.

you didn't get the fulbright yet, you've only been recommended. ;-) you also cannot hold both the fulbright and daad at the same time. if you win both you will only be able to accept one. we will hear either the last week of march or first week of april. they usually run around the same schedule at the german fulbright commission.

i applied for the graduate study scholarship in fines arts and established affiliation at hgb leipzig. didn't get the fulbright. bummer.

@msafiri apologies, but i wasn't telling you that your experience or opinions are not valuable. they most certainly are, for you are where we all want to be sitting....especially considering your country does not have a committee and fewer grants are offered. you are most likely able to provide an inordinate amount of advice. i was merely suggesting, in what i believed to be a rather comical fashion, that your word choice and tone came off somewhat condescending and diminutive. i understood where you were coming from and probably what you meant to say, but the tone was a teensy bit distasteful. you kind of sounded like an old british woman of society confused as to why the maids would complain about their feet hurting. instead of calling you a dick and telling you to fuck off (in turn being a dick myself) i decided to make a silly joke about it.

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she promised me they didn't include the notifications in her e-mail after much goading. ha. we're all in the same boat now.

my advisor just confirmed the e-mail stating they will be sent tomorrow. she won't tell me if i got it or not even though we developed quite a nice rapport and there are only 3 other students from my school applying. i feel like they might not have included it in the e-mail.

last semester started today. the board is on fire tonight. my diversion: season 2 of downton abbey. its brilliantly addicting!

this leads to the obvious next question: what did you put for the plans upon return portion of the application?

i realized today that my fear is not stemming from whether or not i get the grant. that is totally out of my hands. rather, my fear comes from the fact that if i don't get it i have no idea of what to do once i graduate in may. art students don't exactly get jobs right after graduation. the uncertainty is what's killing me. not the fear of rejection.

also i should say that this process is causing physical repercussions for me now. i can't stop grinding my teeth in my sleep! i'm waking up with enormous headaches.

this is incorrect, at least i immensely hope so. from my understanding, and information garnered from my school's fulbright panel and lengthy conversations with past recipients in the arts, the committee in new york looks at all aspects equally with heavier emphasis on the affiliations and the portfolio. the specific country commissions rely on the new york branch to review the portfolios for them because they are not sent along with the applications unless formally requested for whatever reason. they applications are transmitted digitally and all supporting materials (with the exception of music) are kept at the new york offices.

i don't know if i necessarily agree with these sentiments. i think we are all pretty supportive of each other and it doesn't feel as if anyone is trying to show off or compete with another forum member. most of us aren't even applying to the same country and therefore aren't even in competition with one another. those that are in the same country are applying for different grants (eta vs. full) and again aren't in competition. as the first round of waiting draws to a close i think we are getting more and more restless. tossing around our affiliations, information, wishes, etc. certainly helps to pass the time and give us something to preoccupy ourselves with. personally, i think its pretty nice to have a group of intelligent anonymous individuals to freak out with. it makes me feel just a little less crazy.

they greatly welcome funding for master's programs.

i have an affiliation from a professor at a university 50 minutes outside of berlin (i would be commuting by train) in which he states i am require to attend 3 tutorials a semester and give 2 presentations on my work to him and fellow students. that's pretty standard for germany, from my understanding. i also have an affiliation with a museum offering me an internship and access to research in the archives. both are on letterhead. i included an additional letter from a local artist that would support the "cultural exchange" portion of my application. that's the portion i am most worried about because i fear they might find it too ambitious or impossible to complete. i'm also worried about including three because i hear they won't read more than two. i stated explicitly in my proposal why i included the third. we'll see how that goes.

i applied to germany for a full study grant in the arts.

don't check your e-mail until the very end of the day! fortunately/unfortunately i have class all day and will hopefully be somewhat preoccupied. i'm fucking dying.

my fpa hasn't heard anything since the e-mail she got in october stating the applications had been accepted and we would be notified on january 31st. all fulbright communication says on, not by, however it seems like the past few years have been before the 31st deadline. i'm hoping for the 20th as well. most organizations send out e-mails like this on a friday so you don't call and bug them if you freak when you don't get it. self-preservation.

i was randomly reading a post in another section about some potential grad students freaking over whether or not the admissions committees scour the internet looking for their "social-network identity". at first i thought it seemed a little paranoid, but then i began to wonder. do you think the fulbright committees have time to google us on facebook or any other host of sites?

both my fpa and fulbright panel at school told me that major or minor city is not necessarily important. it is more about the strength of your affiliation within that city. they mentioned that the only reason a major city can be more difficult is because several people could potentially establish affiliation at the same institution and they want diversity with the participating institutions. for instance, the max planck institut in germany is a very popular place of affiliation and it might become more difficult to obtain a grant to study there.