violachica Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 i'm keeping my fingers crossed for us all being put out of our misery by friday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olive81 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Um, I am going to go with April 6, 3:22am. I think they watch us on here and have fun. topcat84 and gotasya 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendarii917 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) I think they watch us on here and have fun. I totally agree. Tuesday, April 5, 11:45pm Eastern time. Edited March 31, 2011 by dendarii917 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I'll be the super optimist and say this Friday, April 1 at 9 am Eastern time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonengineer87 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) I'll be the super optimist and say this Friday, April 1 at 9 am Eastern time. They'd probably send us all an email as an April Fool's joke pretending we got it, then state the REAL date ... ugh. Edited March 31, 2011 by crimsonengineer87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violachica Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 i would be super surprised if they did it during daytime hours because they'd have to deal with people freaking out and emailing/calling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherflunky Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 April 25th, 2 am. (Someone said NDSEG would be near the end of April because the DoD won't know its budget for a while. I'm just applying the same to the NSF.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uksawfly Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I'm betting with April 5, but I'm thinking it'll be at at an odd hour like 5 AM EST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkybugsy Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 April 7th 2:30 am 1st year grad student, 2nd time applicant - Animal Behavior - here's to hoping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydney146 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 April 12, 1:55 am EST Always a little later than expected. That'll give me time to obsess, forget about it, and be pleasantly surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antboy808 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 do you think being from a small state really helps? and do you think minorities and people of disabilities (learning and physical) really helps too? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acg Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I'm hoping for April 5th or 6th because I'm going to a conference these days and it would be fun to find out then! Also I think they do it in the middle of the night to avoid an overload on the fastlane system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceandbeans Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 do you think being from a small state really helps? and do you think minorities and people of disabilities (learning and physical) really helps too? ? The state thing isn't really about size of the state so much, but more about the fact that since Congress gives NSF their budget, at least one person from every state needs to get an award so that no congresspeople complain that their state was left out (at least that's how it was explained at the "learn to submit an awesome NSF GRFP app" panel at my uni). For example, if no one from Wyoming is in the original award-winners list, the top-ranked person from Wyoming out of the honorable mention pile gets promoted. But again, this is based on second hand info. I'm guessing being a minority or having disabilities gets you broader impact points if you play your cards right in your essays. Not sure how much it actually helps when it comes to the final applicant selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendarii917 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 After midnight on the east coast and still 20+ people on this thread. I'm so glad to know I'm not alone in obsessing. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violachica Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 definitely more than this time last week haha. i legit spend waaaaay too much time checking here to see if anybody's found the site down, gotten an email, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antboy808 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 you think they will award more than 2000? last year was over 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_ruth Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I was going to say 4/12, but since that's taken I'll say 4/11. Did anyone pick that already? I don't think they will do 4/1. Even if they had the list ready to go out then I bet they wouldn't release it on April Fool's Day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skylyon Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 i should have figured out a good way to mention that i'm gay to up my chances then olive81, waddle and topcat84 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat84 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 April 25th, 2 am. (Someone said NDSEG would be near the end of April because the DoD won't know its budget for a while. I'm just applying the same to the NSF.) i called ndseg....they said mid april....so I would expect nothing sooner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat84 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 i say april 14th 15:35 EST! is there anyway to just post all of what we wrote? maybe we can create a database of winner and non winner essays from all universities? by the end of my app, I was tired of going to the graduate department to review past winners. ps had a dream last night that NSF posted the results. But the only way to view them was to look at the list (not fastweb results but past winners) and search the last name without choosing a year [ie blind search]. Any one well studied in Freud and Jung? I think I'm going insane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat84 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) i should have figured out a good way to mention that i'm gay to up my chances then i think an african american out of the closet gay woman in a wheelchair (because a purple heart war vet) who is a single mother of......5?......and became an american from fleeing persecution of another nation would be even better! Edited March 31, 2011 by topcat84 cf814, phaedrus, meepboop and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etale Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 My vote is for April 8th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat84 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 thanks for the -1 rep points......'NOT sorry if upset someone by pointing out, or rather "quipping," on facts regarding the undeniable exponentially increasing socialist agenda of the US govt. which has already been discussed in this thread [so yes be aware there are tea-partiers and birthers in technical fields and yes I am aware its not Obama doing - since it trully started in the 1850s with radical republican reconstruction]. ANYWAYS....not lookin to troll....NEW topic on NSF anyone? meepboop, cf814, emcgs15 and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnetophyte Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Because of some weird stuff that's happening with the state budget, my program doesn't know how they're going to fund me if I don't get this. (I'm a first-year student.) ARRG. What about people whose admissions decisions are riding on this? They've got to announce it April 15 or before, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonengineer87 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) Because of some weird stuff that's happening with the state budget, my program doesn't know how they're going to fund me if I don't get this. (I'm a first-year student.) ARRG. What about people whose admissions decisions are riding on this? They've got to announce it April 15 or before, right? I think they will try their best, but try to tell CONGRESS about our deadline. They don't really care about OUR deadline since there are so many OTHER deadlines. Like my advisor told me last year, grant money and academic admissions never line up so money is always a crapshoot. Like you mentioned with your state budget, it doesn't line up with academic school year. It's unfortunate. But we can only hope a budget is passed before then. Edited March 31, 2011 by crimsonengineer87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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