roboticsapplicant
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Did anyone get an accept email, or were they all rejects?
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Just got the reject email.
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If you received an email from NDSEG congratulating you on your award and they didn't catch this mistake until AFTER you tried to turn in your paperwork, they most certainly owe you some special consideration or some formal apology. These awards can make or break plans for students grad careers especially if you are looking at schools with little to no funding. If they claim it really was an IT "glitch" on their website, then there may be other applicants who are in the same boat (anyone?) However, if this is an isolated case, they may have accidentally given the award before they were allowed to release the second round of acceptances? I don't mean to get your hopes up, just trying to throw out some possible explanations. You would think that since there are only 200 awards given out, it isn't too much to ask for the program team to double check the list of names once or twice before sending out emails.
Has this happened to any other applicants?
So, what if this happens the other way? If you are accidentally rejected, how will you ever find out?
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Messaged NDSEG on facebook:
We are currently still waiting on more information from the DoD. However, it is the goal of our program office to make sure that all notifications are issued by the end of this month. We are currently on track for this to happen, so please stay tuned!
Great, so just like how decisions were supposed to be released the second week of April? Getting ready for another "We are pleased to inform you that we are still considering you" email.
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So.... is there any new news to be had? Or are people starting to give up hope?
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So....
Any idea when NDSEG will release more information?
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Got the email saying still being considered. Computer Science.
I was super excited with the "We are pleased to" but then saw "still being considered" and I was all "WTF?"
Who the hell writes a sentence like that? It's like if your boyfriend/girlfriend were to say "We need to talk... Nutter-butters are a seriously underrated cookie."
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I would like to wait to use my NSF money until I finish my MS and am entering into a PhD program...since I have funding from my university for my MS. However, I'm not sure if I'm required to use NSF funding for the first year of my fellowship?
I think you have to use 3 years of funding within a 5 year window. So yes, you can defer for two years, as long as you're making progress on your graduate studies.
But don't quote me on this, check with NSF.
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Can people post if they applied and heard back yet, with whether or not they were accepted?
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I would consider this the second week of April.
Then we should hear by Friday then, right?
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Also, second week of April is this week right, even though April started on a Tuesday?
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I want to know already. I was good at keeping my cool so far until NSF results came out. Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
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I don't recall saying that I despise NSF because of my reviews.
Not you. I'm addressing the people that have been saying things like: "omg I can't believe why my reviewers were too thick to understand how awesome I am."
Granted, that is a minority response on this thread, but I really don't like it.
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A lot of it is also in the lack of feedback that can actually be used for improvement. When reviewers consistently say "great outreach", "good broader impacts", etc. but they vary from E to G and there is nothing about improving to go beyond the lower scores, it makes you wonder what you're doing wrong or what you can improve. This is not positive feedback. This is an empty comment that doesn't help with improvement or explain the differences in scoring.
Yes, it's good to get feedback when a lot of applications don't give it to you, blah, blah, blah. A lot of my feedback was very helpful. But there are other applicants who only got the vague responses like I stated above but get varying scores without any notes for improvement.
That's exactly why people say this is a crap-shoot process. It's not like we all didn't know that going in.
Getting feedback is just icing on the cake (where the cake is getting your application read and considered). Of course some people will get better feedback than others - there's no way to normalize reviewer comments across the board. But to despise NSF because your icing isn't thick enough (especially when most cakes have no icing at all) is wrong and entitled.
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The comments can only help you if you actually receive helpful comments. Understanding the blood, sweat and tears that go into these applications, I understand where people get angry when they recieve entirely unhelpful comments or non at all.
Yes, because every other application (whether it's to college, grad school, fellowships, or jobs) gives you helpful, detailied feedback about your strengths and weaknesses. /sarcasm
For the vast mjaority of things that people apply to, they get 0 feedback. In my mind, any feedback you get is a positive. And certainly, don't simply reject the feedback or deny it. Try to understand why the reviewer thinks what he wrote. That's the only way it'll be useful.
And if you think your feedback didn't address your application specifically or properly, maybe that means that you need to rethink how to write these statements for reviewers who are alloted just a few minutes per application. In previous years I had much denser statements. This year I made it less dense and easy to quickly read, and the results were positive.
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I hate how angry and entitled some people are on this thread. Just be glad you get back feedback, but recognize that it's still a crap-shoot process.
My third reviewer said I was a strong applicant, but I didn't get squat. My hope is that there was a holistic process that awarded applicants who were better qualified overall than me, rather than who got the luck of the draw with reviewers. If it means that I get high marks and don't win the award, but someone else who is actually better qualified than me (holistically, not just in a two-line review) got it, then great. This is exactly what the system should be - there's no way to "normalize" different reviewers.
So stop complaining you arrogant entitled fools.
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Has anyone received an email from NSF???
I got one saying I didn't win.
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E/E F/P .........................
What? Did you submit a non-deterministic application?
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On to waiting for NDSEG!
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I feel extremely ripped off seeing who was offered full awards. E/E VG/E VG/E. Honorable mention.
Varies by field.
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Dammit, 5 VG and 1 E, didn't get anything.
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Wait, did it change? Something's there.
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I think I'm going to bed guys. Should have been asleep three hours ago. Maybe I'll watch something in bed and then check the site again afterwards.
Dammit NSF.
NSF GRFP 2014-2015
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Does anyone remember when awards were announced in previous years?