BMCGirl10

That's so great! Thanks - it looks fabulous

Trust me Sally I have read all 58 pages! The trouble is that even within those pages there are references to people who posted on March 12th for instance but say that their friend got a Fulbright acceptance in the mail weeks ago which would put that acceptance in late-February. But I do think you're right, most of the acceptances come in March/April. But I think your Google spreadsheet idea would be awesome! How would we go about starting that?

I have a Kindle 2 and I mostly use it for pleasure reading like kahlan_amnell ( I love Legend of the Seeker / Goodkind btw!). I love my Kindle to pieces! The selection through the Kindle is much larger and slightly cheaper than the Nook. I've heard that the iPad will have an iBookstore but the selection comes nowhere near Amazon's reach. So I think I'll keep my Kindle for now. Plus the iPad, if you get it with the same wireless capabilities to download materials that the Kindle has, is $600 bucks! Three times the price of the Kindle. If you get the iPad with the keyboard attachment then you might as well just buy a Macbook since it comes to the same price.

I wish there was a rank-ordered calendar through which we could see which countries decide in February, which in March, which in April etc. I know it varies from year-to-year but this is frustrating not knowing when notice could be coming over a span of four months.

I just got the email and I was accepted! The email came from the U.S. Student Fulbright Program.

The two newest rejections on Twitter are from the UK (Research) and Korea (ETA).

As far as I can tell the three people informed were notified by their advisors not through a formal email from IIE.

It depends on when the advisers received notification. If they just got access to the finalist list today then we won't be emailed until tomorrow. I contacted my adviser, she has the list and guess what she told me when I asked for my status? She said she can't tell me whether or not I'm a finalist! IIE apparently says the advisers aren't supposed to notify the students in advance. But I know someone whose adviser told him he was a finalist for Hungary's Fulbright.

Does anyone know when the Competition Statistics will be updated? I'd like to know what I'm working against. I know applications to graduate schools have jumped significantly this year but what about Fulbright?

Did anyone else catch what President Obama just said in his State of the Union address? I thought he said that if you have a public job (i.e. working for the federal government) for ten years then your student loans are forgiven. Is that a fact or wishful thinking?

This was posted on a facebook message board today: All Fulbright U.S. Student applicants will receive an email on January 30 advising them of their recommended or not recommended status. The online application system will be re-opened for U.S. Fulbright Program Advisers the day before the applicant emails are sent to give advisers a heads up on their students' status. Advisers will receive an email in advance of when the system is re-opened to view students' status. Best, Office of Academic Exchange Programs Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs United States Department of State I wonder if the January 30th date was a typo? Either way our advisers will know the day before we do.

I'm applying next year and this gives me great hope! Many congrats! Is Cornell the only major MPP that does rolling admissions?

So yeah I really wish Fulbright decisions weren't so far away. I'm trying to plan my summer and I won't legitly know what I'm doing until April (at best).

Undergraduate senior political science major here - planning to take at least a year off, gain some experience, then apply to grad school. I've started the job search process for when I graduate in May. The problem I've been encountering when applying to congressional staff offices and political consulting firms is that they say it's too early. I should apply in February when I'm ready to graduate. Isn't that too late in the game? Won't all the positions be filled by then? I've heard many horror stories of past seniors who waited until the last two or three months before graduating and they were frantically searching and moaning about the lack of job offers. Is the early bird catches the worm not the policy with political careers, particularly in D.C.?

Would you mind saying which company, firm, or government department you worked for? I've been applying for jobs as a political or government relations consultant with different organizations. Do you know if it or similar companies have any openings? I have a background in Arabic not Chinese.

Humanities/Social Science Awards Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Run by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation For grad students in IR/Public Policy programs Full Tuition, Room & Board for two years 20 new fellows/year http://www.woodrow.org/fellowships/foreign_affairs/pickering_grad/index.php Deadline ~early February American Political Science Association Minority Fellows Program Run by APSA For minority students applying for doctoral programs in Political Science for the first time $4,000 over the first two years 12 new fellows/year http://www.apsanet.org/content_3284.cfm Deadline ~early October Truman Scholarship Run by the H. Truman Scholarship Foundation For college juniors who hope to be a "change agent" $30,000 for graduate school 60-65 new fellows/year http://www.apsanet.org/content_3284.cfm Deadline ~early February

Hi everyone, I pressed the submit button for my 2010-2011 application for a research grant to Lithuania yesterday. I'm a graduating senior and my research area of interest is political theory. My main concern is competing with an applicant pool that includes Ph.D candidates who are applying to work on their dissertation research. Here's hoping we all receive great news in January! I also would love not to be one of the Fulbright finalists who aren't notified until July - early August. In reading the boards I saw that happened to Egypt's grantees in 2009-2010. Best of luck everyone.

I have a friend who's applying for several grants to attend grad school in the UK. The scholarships that she is focusing on are: The Rhodes Scholarship http://www.rhodesscholar.org/, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship http://www.gatesscholar.org/, and the Marshall Scholarship http://www.marshallscholarship.org/. I think the deadline for all of these is very soon if the deadline has not already passed. Good luck!

Hey all, I literally just heard so check your emails! I wasn't shortlisted but hopefully one of you were.

Yes, I've noticed the non-punctuality as well! I haven't heard anything. Maybe within the next few days.

I know there isn't a specific forum for this but this opportunity is targeted mostly towards recent graduates from undergrad. Did anyone apply to be an North Atlantic Treaty Organization Intern for the fall or summer of 2010? We should be finding out at the end of August if we were shortlisted. Any former interns out there?

Thanks Nejjad! I'll definitely look into the CEU program - it sounds like something I'd be interested in.

I would say find an apartment to live in a nice neighborhood inside the city. It might be cheaper living outside the city, in say Lithonia for instance (nice, middle class area) BUT rush hour in Atlanta is a pain. From 7-9am and 5-8ish pm traffic is basically at a standstill on the highways. You creep along with everyone trying to get into and out of the city respectively. So unless you're an early bird with time to kill or a person who doesn't mind leaving Atlanta at 4pm everyday to beat the traffic the city's still your best bet just not the GT campus. :wink: