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With next to no information to go on, who knows! Sit and wait and hope they show up to provide some more info. In the meantime, take it as a good thing that you weren't asked to clarify your proposal.

This is potentially a serious problem or potentially no problem at all. Go talk to your schools financial aid office and/or a financial professional, not an internet forum.

The EAPSI and, for GRF recipients, the Nordic Research Opportunity are both sponsored by the NSF. The EAPSI's deadline is in November and announcements will come out in the next 4-6 weeks.

Just jumping in to point out that the lack of daylight had nothing to do with the depth of the winter. Germany is situated much further north than the United States, reducing your daylight during winter months. To illustrate, Minneapolis is located at ~45ºN, while Berlin is at ~52.5ºN.

Thats.... quite the spread.

For graduate school purposes, you are an independent. http://studentaid.ed.gov/sites/default/files/fafsa-dependency.pdf At the beginning of the 2014–15 school year, will you be working on a master’s or doctorate degree program (such as an M.A., M.B.A., M.D., J.D., Ph.D., Ed.D., graduate certificate, etc.)? Did you answer Yes to any of the questions? If so, then for federal student aid purposes, you’re considered to be an independent student and do not have to provide information about your parents on the FAFSA.

Unless something has changed after your disqualification, you can still log in to the portal and look at your completed application form. Links are provided to each of your essays in the slot they were uploaded. I would suggest you double check before emailing anyone (which won't do you any good, anyway).

Submitted just before the 5pm local deadline. Good luck to all!

Gotta agree with DTB here. I did something similar with spacing, but to hedge my bets i increased the spacing of the line previous (i.e. 1.4 spacing instead of a new line of 0.4), just to avoid potential technicalities due to that highlighted line. I really doubt it will matter, though.

Model organisms are things like drosophila, mice/rat strains, Arabidopsis, E.coli... Non-model would be, I suppose, more specific studies or organisms not as widely used.

I'm curious about the RCR requirements. So far as I know, I've never received any and certainly don't have any certificates. What information I can find about it says that it's required for students and researchers paid off of NSF grants awarded in 2010 or later. Besides the fact that I'm not paid off an NSF grant, our last grant was awarded in 2009, and I found a statement that essentially said I was grandfathered in and not required; thus, I've got nothing to report. Anyone got any insight? Frogism, you might check with your institution. The citiprogram site is just one option, you can also receive training through your institution. They might have something more specific/appropriate available.

It is not unethical unless she agreed to write a letter with the direct intention of never submitting to sabotage the application. It is, however, HIGHLY unprofessional regardless. This woman, purposefully or not, is responsible for your disqualification. If she is someone that you will need to maintain contact with for future applications (which is sounds like is the case, as your thesis adviser), it is absolutely worth having a discussion with her to try and find out if it was an accident or if she has reservations about writing a strong letter. In the event that it was either malicious or the result of a reluctance to support you, you NEED to find out because it means you need to replace her in your applications ASAP. Personally (and especially depending on how many application opportunities you have left), I'd be livid and I totally sympathize with your position, PhDplease. I agree with Blue's assessment about NSF's response. I've heard similar situations pop up before and they are pretty strict about their deadlines. I can't imagine the fact that they extended the deadline by days will make them any more sympathetic. However, Blue, I disagree that the 5 slots explanation is an "excuse." You have 5 slots as a contingency for just this situation. NSF gives you the flexibility to avoid this problem from the start and the onus is on YOU to win the award, not for THEM to give it to you.

Look at the application guide i have linked up above. It makes it pretty clear. The typical format for one of these (at least, as dictated for the DDIG) is an Overview paragraph, an Intellectual Merit paragraph, and a Broader Impacts paragraph, labeled as such. It's basically a 1 page summary, so it should be much less in-depth than your Project description (which should be the totality of your research plan).

Has anyone else had difficulties creating a proposal in FastLane? Any time I attempted to create a cover sheet or fill out an application form it would give my some error line about "You must be registered as an individual..." Seems a bit odd, as I was logged into my account and used this account to submit a DDIG not 2 weeks ago. Advisor, NSF coordinator, and I were all out of ideas, so I created a new account and everything filled out like a charm. Seems exceedingly annoying to have 2 active FastLane accounts, however...

In discussions from previous years threads, the most popular seem to be Australia and NZ - which as English-speaking countries, comes as no surprise to me. Funding rates for those countries were reported to be ~25% or less. In other, non English-speaking countries, funding rates may exceed 50%. When the funding rate for most NSF awards is 10% or less (even the GRF is only ~16%) even a funding rate of 25% is pretty great, and approaching 50% is borderline absurd. When I was first told of the program, the overall funding rate (regardless of country breakdown) was nearly 60%. Oops, found the old comment I was thinking of:

The official date is early April, but the last two years have been around the 28-30 of March. Reports are NSF is changing how reviews are done this year. Instead of traveling to DC, reviewers will go over applications remotely. I suspect this could speed up the review process, but may not speed up announcements.

And applications are now closed. Good luck to everyone who applied.

Sorry Slick. Comments are not emailed out, they're made available shortly after announcements on your Fastlane profile page. Unfortunately, they're only available for a couple weeks after announcements and then deleted. There is no way for you to see your previous comments now.

This should be a no brainer. Is it reported on your transcript? Then yes, include it.

I've never had a problem with their software misinterpreting MS Word-set 1" margins as anything under 1". Don't worry about it. If you want to be absolutely sure, convert it to a PDF before uploading so you don't have to rely on FastLane's conversion software.

Yeah, they often give a little bit of wiggle room around the on-the-hour deadline, ostensibly to account for clock variation and server backup, but those extra lines are gonna be an auto-kill.

Brackets are fine, superscripts take less space. My style is a modification of a typical "short" citation format, which does not require the inclusion of titles. I used this same format last year with no repercussions, with no titles included and all citations in a continuous line. Using this format this year, i have 18 citations (not necessary for most, but how it turned out for mine) fit into 9 lines of 10pt. TNR font. Citation rules are not as set in stone as you appear to think they are. Format is not content. You are not plagiarizing.

That looks rather like (i forget which) either science or nature's publication format. It's very dense and very usable. The solicitation sets no guidelines for formatting citations. Check my signature for a post describing what I've come up with as probably one of, if not THE shortest formats possible.

provided any transfer credits appear on your baccalaureate institution's transcript. Which they often don't, or at least not in any detail greater than "24 credit hours."