sam45

Agreed. When you are in a program, the people you compete against are also your friends and colleagues. It's hard to be greedy when everyone is working their ass off.

I agree especially with your final point. I am currently a graduate student in the social sciences. I was offered the best funding at a school I turned down, and I have an RAship currently at my top choice school. NEITHER were $30000/year, and both require work on projects other than my own. GRFP frees up time to read and research and finish your degree in a timely manner.

Let's try this. We <3 you NSF and we will be patient forever and ever until April 15. But, if you tell us a little bit sooner, we will love you more!

Who must approve and where can we find them? I bet we could make this happen

Thank you for calling. Still annoyed though...

Is this really the best they can do? Tell us "Early April" after passing the time by which the results would be posted and now its April 6 and nothing more specific? Come on.

I feel really pathetic right now

Probably changing it to end of April lol

It must be in and out because I just got to a log in page but last night and this morning it gave me a 404 message. Lame

the nsfgrfp.org ratings sheet page hasn't been working since those lucky few saw their results. Also, the "check your application" link just directed you to the fastlane site. None of this really means anything.

Just when I thought it was safe to leave my computer for the weekend

Would they seriously notify them before us? Annoying. I don't want to learn I didn't get anything by getting a congratulatory email about someone else in the department!

Agreed. I hope they are spying on this forum right now....

It would be very helpful if they just picked some date and told us that they would release the results then. I would rather wait an extra day knowing EXACTLY when I would know than sit around wondering all the time.

Mine says "END Fellow Stats" but I think that doesn't mean anything.

No, I think it would be a shock if they were not snooping around the forums

I think we broke it

Oh god, I think I'm going to puke.

I am going to tell myself this is taking so long because the GRFP got a load of $$ that is must give out this year. I'm hoping for a 15-20% award rate

Ok guys, this is seriously too much. I just want to know so that I can move on with my life! I'm pretty sure I will be a no, but this waiting with no definite end is KILLING ME