marty3

Any word on what's happening with this fellowship? The application still isn't up yet and I'm a little worried it might disappear like the other DOE fellowship.

Yes, congrats to the winners! I got the "honorable mention" email too. At least I can apply again next year, but I have no idea how to beef up my app.

two words: Schrodinger's cat.

According to last year's thread, rejections came out on April 12, and winners had to accept by April 13. My guess is they're just waiting for all the winners to accept before sending out the final wave of rejections, and all winners accepted a little early. Since Grey28's husband has to respond by April 26, and given last year's similar timeline, I suspect we'll hear towards the end of the week. Let's see what happens! Another interesting fact from last year's thread is that two versions of the rejection email went out. One version included the line "We were very impressed with your credentials and saw much promise in your application and we strongly encourage you to reapply next year provided you remain eligible." This was assumed to be some sort of unofficial honorable mention by the posters. There was no mention of any waitlist, but my guess is if there were, these "honorable mention" winners would have been on it.

I agree that there are a lot of us still out there who haven't heard. Still, I could also see them keeping around 20, or even more, people waitlisted if there are 20 winners. But hey, we weren't included in what was at least 2 rounds of rejection emails.

I, too, haven't heard back yet. I'm not sure what to think this means. My guess is that the winners have been notified by now and the rest of us are on some sort of wait list and will find out in the next week or later. I'm curious to know how long people have to accept/decline the offer. I would assume a week, or two, or three? I figure the late notification is a good thing, regardless. We must be close to winning if we haven't been rejected yet, right? Since I haven't started grad school yet I can apply next year too, but I really don't want to reapply!

I also got a full grant to Australia today. I'll be in Adelaide next year. Woot!