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Yea, I will definitely consider it. I will have to see for now.

No, if anything the Austria ETA will help you get it. They look for people with experience, who can show that they will be able to handle the situations you are placed in. That is why they usually pick people who have done with prior study abroad. As far as the official policy is, there is no prejudice in applications. So a person can apply freely.

I sent an email and got no response, which makes me think that Hoermann is unwilling to speak about these things. Molly has been more open in discussions in the past, but I am sort of unwilling to continue sending emails out, I feel like I have sent too many. I imagine they select alternates based on past experiences of people dropping out (so perhaps just a few above the number they expect to open).

Thank you lkjl. I have to say, this forum has been the most positive forum experience of my entire life. I feel that I could be good friends with practically every I have come across.

Alternate for USTA... quite a bummer.

I have in recent days, she has been forwarding the emails to Hormann.

Hormann didn't respond yet to an email I sent him late last week (Friday), so I assume he was not in his office today. It's just him doing all of this.

ou w 1. I proposed this a while back as well, one one has responded so far. Keep in mind, you may be overstating the "quantifiable logic" behind their decision; you may not necessarily get the same people viewing it. Meaning that there is a high amount of irrationality behind almost any decision, especially when candidates have such close competitive levels. The biggest issue, I think, is the amount of teaching experience as well as German skills. These are the two big ones. You and I may have failed to properly prove to them that our German can be trusted.

Okay, I thought it was 1050 and then health care and taxes... I find it strange that a program that is smaller and less funded pays more, but from what I know Austria is expensive (more so than Germany) so it makes sense.

That very well might be the case, I just thought alternates go out first since that was the case with the Germany Fulbright.

Yea, but part of that money goes to health care, so it evens out; and the Austria program doesn't pay back your flight ticket.

I imagine this must happen to a lot of people who are accepted by Germany ETA and have applied for the USTA. The Fulbright Germany program gets a lot more applicants and is more competitive, so if you were picked by it it would not be hard to see the Austria program wanting you as well. As for your position, I doubt they have even placed you yet. Congrats though, it was my dream to be accepted to both.

I honestly can't say I even have a clue with them. Because they are assigining schools as we speak, emails might be more difficult to draft out and I know their crew is pretty small (I think only one American). Who knows, best to wait and hope for the best.

Nothing on this end.

All I have gotten is "Mid-April at the latest": which means anytime between tomorrow and next Friday