jadoreviie

Yea I am a finalist as well and noticed that in previous years they found out last week. I received the procedural "mid april" response so hopefully we receive word this week. I've come to a point where I have stopped worrying. Whatever happens, happens. Good luck to everyone and whomever hears word from China or HK, please post.

The applicants for Hong Kong have not yet been approved by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) and IIE can't send out notification letters until the FSB clearances have come through. They're hoping that the FSB will approve the Hong Kong candidates within the next 2 weeks or so. If you want to have more details, you can contact Jonathan E. Akeley (JAkeley@iie.org), the Senior Program Officer - Asia-Pacific, U.S. Student Programs Division, Institute of International Education.

It's called 'Fulbright' lol I need to stop obsessing over this darn scholarship as if my life depends on it. (

I am currently waiting for the HK ETA results in the mail so I've been toggling between this forum and the Fulbright forum on facebook. From what I know, just in case people here aren't on facebook: - A grant to Norway was awarded - An alternate to Peru was awarded (doesn't specify what type of grant) - An ETA to Slovakia was awarded - An ETA to Indonesia was awarded Now, I believe that they are telling everyone a date that it should be received by, which means that it could come earlier than that. If they were to tell us the actual date and something happened where we didn't receive it that day, I am sure they'd get an onslaught of emails from people worried. So I think it's a way of preventing that from happening. I think its procedural for them to tell us to wait much longer than we have to. I had emailed Jonathan the HK advisor and he said mid-April because historically that's when they were received. HOWEVER, I know for a fact that last year it was received the last week of March, first week of April. My fulbright advisor on campus also said that it should be here by the 30th or 31st of March. Now, if she was unsure, she wouldn't have given me exact dates. I mean, I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but the dates that they are telling us, based on what I've noticed, is a bit later than what usually happens.