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I'm finishing my masters and then I'm out. That or I change my focus to industry work. I've fought hard, but there is a class barrier here that I can't beat; not as a white guy anyway...

I didn't get it, not even an HM. I'm really shocked. Is the system really that random?

We will know it is real when we see a flood of people posting both rejections and acceptances. I wonder why the fakers don't go with the "awww I didn't get it," and a fake rejection rather than the less believable "got it."

I'm fairly confident, I got a HM last year and have done a ton more to improve my application. If I didn't get it I would really have a "OMG what more do you want from me," feeling.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/nsf.html It says 30% increase for GRFP.

The links to that page are weird, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I had to mess around with nsfgrfp.org vs nsfgraduatefellowships.org and https vs http. You can find a copy of the page on google's Cache if you search for it.

http://www.nsfgrfp.org/about_the_progra ... recipients

15 and 16 are defiantly mid April. April 15 12pm would be the absolute middle of the month Obviously I am just arguing semantics for fun but...

Multi-disciplinary stuff is really popular right now, it could work out well.

I'm fairly sure that it compares people based on "graduate school experience" regardless of the field that it came from. That is why people who complete their masters first are often disqualified for the GRFP as they already have too many graduate credit hours.

I think tomorrow is the last day of "Early April." 1--10 == Early April 11--20 == Mid April 21--30 == Late April 1--15 == First half of April 16--30 == Second half of April It clearly says "Early April."

Yeah, I give up for the day after 12. I keep a window open to the forum, just because I'm at a computer anyway

I acually got my research essay published as a conference paper Of course I added a little bit more... hope that is a good sign.

Yes, they do take that into account and award people from each category differently. I think it is: 100% undergrad Less than 12 months graduate More than 12 months graduate I posted a link back on page 80 something that had a document that offers some incite into the process.

Yay 100 pages... now the NSF can finally post the results.