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https://twitter.com/#!/rockmysoxx_/status/182903681803493377 someone for india.

Yes, Cheerios asked why we were requested to send an official transcript after we were recommended. That is why StephanieJ and I both mentioned that we had uploaded unofficial transcripts with our applications - presumably they asked for our official transcript after recommendation because no one had actually sent in an official transcript prior because of the online nature of the application process. Capisce? Fair point, but I mean... when was the last time you saw someone ask a question on here and get a response from a random saying "Why yes! I do know the answer to that important piece of information, I just hadn't told anyone yet because I was waiting for someone to ask me..." I do enjoy the crazy speculations though!

Earlier this month my phone broke and my dad actually said something along the lines of "Well if you might be going on the Fulbright we shouldn't renew your contract to get a new phone, so maybe you should stick with a prepaid handphone" really? really?? parentals, they're even more into it than we are...

Guys.... just so we can get this out of the way I'm pretty sure no one on this board has any idea: When acceptances for any country will be going out When rejections for any country will be going out Anything about the Germany ETA program's notifications Where Cara Doble is How many people were recommended for certain programs (except Germany - 280). On the bright side, I've learned you could not PAY me enough $$$ to work as a program officer somewhere like IIE. I think I would have an aneurysm from answering so many emails about the same thing.

yeah I just copy/pasted my online transcript into a word doc and uploaded that. It even said "this is an unofficial transcript" all over it. Since the application is all online, the transcript has to be opened to scan it in and upload it, so that automatically invalidates it's "officialness"

No, because the fulbright administrator in-country is not the final word. Your email should come from (at least nominally) Theresa Granza, the Director of US Student Programs at IIE I think? (unless you applied for the Fulbright Scholar Program in which case you will probably be notified by CIES since they administer that I think?). Someone who won the Germany Full got his/her email from IIE and copy pasted it here.

I like NYU's program too, but like you I'm not sure about the cost. I think it would be worth it education-wise (especially if I could get a little bit of it funded) but I don't know if I can rationalize the cost of living over there... I don't know too much about Columbia but they DO have two programs, one is more professionally oriented and one is more policy oriented, so people may have meant the former? I don't really want to end up teaching, I don't think - ideally I'd like to end up as a project manager for some kind of education-oriented aid assoication/program, like a LEEP (Linking Education and Employment) program. I've also kind of thought about going the Admissions route and maybe ending up as a Director of International Admissions. What about you?

... Amherst?

http://www.aminef.or...d-of-management This is the board of management for the Fulbright (administrator, AMINEF) in Indonesia. As you can see, there are Americans and Indonesians on there - my feeling is that the highest priority for being appointed to the Indonesian board is expertise in Indonesia, its needs and who would best fulfill those needs within the mission of the Fulbright program. The Fulbright in Vietnam is administered by the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Hanoi - I would be surprised if their board is not similarly comprised.

Did you guys see that a Fulbright scholar just died while on her grant?

From what I remember (i can't verify right now because I don't have access to my fulbright folder - i'm at work), students are ranked by their schools (if applying through schools). This ranking is not relative to any other student that the committee is reviewing - it is a stand alone ranking out of 10 or 5, or possibly A-F or something. Then, fulbright board goes on to decide who is recommended and who is a non-select. They notify all those people and then forward their recommendations to the in-country committees. As part of the recommendation those selected are all ranked in order. So all applicants to germany ETA would be ranked as the IIE sees them, but they would only be ranked against other applicants to germany ETA, not france ETA or spain ETA or greece full grant applicants. So, recommended applicants are ranked US-wide, but only in relation to their specific program. From what I understand some countries pretty much take the recommendations as they receive them, others have a little bit more debate about it, some may evaluate the applicants without taking the recommendation ranking into account at all. It is within the purview of the in country board. Certain things might not stick out to the IIE board because they do not have high level expertise for every country who hosts Fulbrighters, and that may cause the in-country board not to go with their recommendation. For example, an applicant's research project might be recommended by the IIE, but those in country may find it too sensitive a topic or something.

I've looked at NYU, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt (no go); SIT, Lesley (intercultural relations MA); U of GA, UPenn and Harvard (eh I live in Boston so it's worth a look I guess!) I went to a small, rural, top tier women's college, so I know how great that can be, but I also learned my lesson in terms of the things you sacrifice by going to a school in a rural area. Like not being able to get to do those really cool internships/jobs/co-ops that people in NYC have access to... I thought this link was pretty helpful when I first started out - it's specifically for people wanting to work in study abroad but they kind of summarize what's good and maybe bad about a certain program: http://www.insidestu...e-programs.html

https://twitter.com/...785423901765632 someone found out for Ecuador (full grant?) and someone else found out for Colombia as well.

Just seems a little bit like chasing your tail to me if you won't get anywhere near accurate results without an appropriate data set. Trust me, I'm just as anxious as anyone else on here (possibly more so than some since I would have to quit my job and renege on my agreement to go to law school). We're all out of high school, so I'm pretty sure acting too cool to care is passe. (edited because I spelled 'renege' wrong. monday...)

I hope that's the case boxoatoc (about the year 2050)! I'm just in a bad mood because it's 70 degrees in boston and I'm stuck in my windowless office Busti, have you looked at the more non-traditional programs, like Lesley and SIT (in vermont)? I don't know much at all about the American program, but their MA in International Training and Teaching looks really interesting. Most schools put up an example of the courses you have to take in order to get the degree so I would suggest looking at that and seeing if it jives with what you actually want to study. I looked at Vanderbilt for a hot second because they are supposedly number one, but ended up not even giving them a second look because their courseload tends to be heavy on the theoretical and I want a program that gives me more practical experience. Honestly, the "International" in "International Education" really worries me, lol. There's been a huge surge in "International" this and "International" that across all fields because it's a big seller for schools to get butts in their seats. Honestly its meaning is so variable that the "International Education" program at one school might be completely different from the program at another school, and that worries me. I think i'm going to try to go with an MA in Higher Education Admin. and then focus on International Education in particular. Hopefully with some practical experience abroad under my belt that would be enough to qualify me to get the jobs I would want to have after graduation. edit: congrats Argentina ETAs! Maybe we'll be hearing more from South America? There was already someone who heard from Peru and now Argentina...

wow, some people really are taking this regression thing seriously. Critiquing the regression method, seriously? The issue with the regression is oh... only having like three years of data. Busti, what have you decided on the MA? I'm thinking about International Education/Higher Ed. Admin. as well. From the people in the field I've talked to it seems a bit like there's a "we did it that way so you have to do it that way too" vibe and you are more easily welcomed into the fold if you have followed the "traditional" BA-MA-PhD ladder, especially if you want to end up working at a college/university.

I did see someone on twitter had heard back from Peru!

Hmmm that IS strange. Maybe Armenia was technically part of a regional program before or something?

... That there are new ETA programs in those countries this year...? I'm really not sure what you're asking here.

I am still laughing a little over "Pontianak" in West Kalimantan. That is worse than Kuching in Malaysia, I think. (for non-Indonesian/Malay speakers "Pontianak" is something loosely translated like "the zombie vampire of a woman who died while pregnant". Kuching just means "cat")

I don't think it would be too awkward if I was in Indonesia and Obama didn't win re-election, since I'm pretty sure 99.99% of my colleagues would be just as upset as me. I mean, he is considered a local celebrity after all...

if you have a google account and you have already viewed the spreadsheet, you can access it by clicking the "documents" tab at the top of your gmail/google browser.

I think they would be sent in small batches definitely (seems like they were for the UK and Germany so far) - but it just seems to me like Fulbright deliberately sent out the email notifications for the recommended and non-select people in the first round after hours, maybe so questions and people calling them would be delayed until the next day or something? With small batches it seems like it would be more feasible to just send them during working hours instead of making people stay late. For some places there's only a handful of grants so it doesn't seem like there needs to be as much preparation as sending out emails to ALL of the people (thousands) who applied fulbright like when they were sending out the initial recommendation and non-select notifications. Just a hunch, but I know there's at least one person one here whose son got his email in the morning. I guess there is always the off chance that you could hear from the in-country board before you hear from IIE so there's that as well.

Except that pretty much everybody received the recommended status email after normal business hours. Recommended statuses were all determined by IIE/Fulbright here in the U.S. and they were sent out as a mass email along with the emails to non-selects so that makes sense.

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