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It's possible they might be looking to fill other positions in other countries by the way. I think this happened with Malaysia couple years ago, when they significantly increased their ETA grant amounts. A heap of people who had been rejected/took themselves off the alternate list were contacted to fill those positions, but people who still wanted to remain on the alternate list for their country of application weren't contacted or something like that.

I'm not sure if I'm the first one to say this, but whoever masterminded the Fulbright webdesign should seriously reconsider. A lot of them have been fixed but it's nearly impossible to read some of the pages - case in point: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/program_country.php?id=22 it looks like they took out a bunch of the statistics about past grant numbers and applications as well? I wonder why...

You may want to consider applying to another country.

Well, there are only two fulbright commissions in all of africa (there's jordan and israel in the MENA region, then there's egypt and morocco under the MENA umbrella as well). There are no fulbright commissions in all of subsaharan africa. This makes the approval of fulbrights a much more regional and collaborative process then in other parts of the world, and seems quite similar to central asia, which you will also see from the map has largely remained unnotified. That is probably what Jermaine is talking about when he mentions final budget approval, the budget approval by various countries in africa as to which countries get how many grants and what amount of money, etc. Honestly, that seems symptomatic of the general western approach towards "AFRICA" as a continent and not a set of highly diverse countries. This kind of regional approach over almost 50 countries is not seen anywhere else on the globe (38 countries in the african continent without commissions), and probably results in budgets that end up stretched far too thinly.

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morocco is not a part of sub-saharan africa...

there is no predeparture orientation.

Hi Ecuador8, LLJKedge received notification (along with what looks like the rest of the full grant applicants) on 3/13 that he/she was an alternate, and received notification that he was promoted to principle on 4/2 (or possibly before that, 4/2 was when it was posted on the forum I think). By my calculations that is a little less than three weeks, so it looks like they do notify as soon as they hear, probably to try and catch people before they put a deposit down on university or make some other binding plans. It may be different for different countries but I think LLJKedge heard from IIE rather than the in-country commission?

Someone from my school heard back that they didn't get it already, but i'm not sure when they heard.

That is so cute, guys.

I'm not a germany grantee, but I think this is correct. that's what it says on the letter attached to the health certification "within four weeks of receiving your letter from the [FSB]" however, I did get a little nervous for a while because the website says it's due within three weeks of receiving notification. Which is just crazy - my doctor doesn't even have a spot open for an examination until January 2013! http://us.fulbrighto...nt_medical.html Also, if anyone was wondering, you can have a nurse practitioner do the examination. A licensed physician just needs to sign (and review, obviously) the form. I'm an idiot and I didn't read the instructions on the covering letter, so I called Walter Jackson and he confirmed that for me.

I think someone was looking for other people's essays/personal statements so they could see how to improve their applications for next year? Temple U has put some up here from successful fellows: http://www.temple.edu/studyabroad/students/fulbright/sample_essays.htm