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My scores were E/E, VG/VG, and E/E. I received a fellowship. It all just seems so random. The first and third reviews are glowing, but the middle reviewer's response is so scathing that I'm amazed they even gave me VGs. They sound like a real curmudgeon. I guess it doesn't matter how productive the comments are, though, since I don't have to do it again...

I do have a question, though: I was offered an award in cultural anthropology, but the program I'll be attending this year is actually a sociology program. I've heard that you can change your project focus, but I assume it's not quite as easy to change your entire award area...

I gave up and went to bed, thinking it was all a false alarm. Awful surprised to find the e-mail in my inbox this morning, but it was sure nice to wake up to--I got one! Congratulations to the other winners!

Just logged into Fastlane and pulled up the Awardee List, and the subheading underneath the search functions now reads "2012 Awardee List" instead of "2011 Awardee List," like it said this morning. I really think this is it...

Seriously, bro. If this is a false alarm, I will be SO INCREDIBLY PISSED.

AUGGHH. YOU GUYS. IT'S ONLY AN HOUR AWAY.

So, I caved and called NSF too, and got a slightly different answer. The woman who helped me said they're swamped with calls about it, but nobody knows anything official yet. She says that there is, quote, a "reasonable probability" that results will come out tonight, but the official announcement isn't made at GRFP headquarters until a few hours before the uploading begins, so she can't confirm for sure. She also said that once the decision to announce is official, an announcement will be posted at www.nsfgrfp.com, so we have something else to obsess about and check compulsively...

NSF runs on Eastern time, right? So for those of us on the West Coast, the proposed window is actually 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.? Which means I can log in and check as soon as I get home from work? *tears out hair*

I'm at work for the next 10 hours. I'm going to be just useless today. I might go buy some NyQuil to pound when I get home and just sleep through the whole thing. If this is a false alarm I'm gonna be SO PISSED OFF.

03/29/12 - FastLane will be unavailable from 11:00 PM ET Thursday March 29th - 5:00 AM ET Friday March 30th for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. HOH-LEE POOP, GUYS. IT'S A FRIDAY. Edit: I see I am fashionably late to this party. My bad.

Off to Ann Arbor! Huzzah!

Hey, man-- I declined Chicago's offer this morning. Best of luck!

Has no one heard anything from Columbia? Results page says they usually notify acceptances by phone in early February, and send the bulk of their rejections around the 16th. Are they just running late this year?

I guess I'm a little unusual--my undergraduate major was sociology, but I've applied to both sociology and sociocultural anthro graduate programs. Waiting to hear back from Columbia sociology and Harvard anthro, as well as the anthro program at NYU. Solidarity, man! Hang in there--best of luck!

I know exactly how you feel. I'm waiting on Harvard and Columbia, of all places, and I just wish they'd get it over with so I can start planning the move to somewhere I've actually been accepted.