hoobers Posted December 26, 2010 Posted December 26, 2010 This is around the time of year that NSF sent out its disqualification letters in 2009. Has anyone gotten one this year?
repatriate Posted December 26, 2010 Posted December 26, 2010 A friend in my program got one by email about a week and a half ago.
Designated Posted December 26, 2010 Posted December 26, 2010 I haven't heard of this and fortunately didn't get an email. Is it for people who have not have complete applications?
t_ruth Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 Wow, I didn't know about this either. Thankfully I didn't get one! Woo! *have to take small victories in what I'm sure will be an eventual defeat.
Tsujiru Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 I got a message saying I'd been disqualified but fortunately was able to refute it. The reason was that I'd accidentally marked myself as a 2nd year when I'm really a first year, so they thought I'd neglected to send in my grad school transcript. Also, I was unable to get a transcript from studying abroad. However, when I talked it over with someone at the NSF by telephone, they corrected the first error and decided neither it nor the lack of a transcript from an international institution should disqualify me. Whew, what a relief!
t_ruth Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 wow, that's awesome that they contacted you about what they thought was a missing transcript. Good to know they do that! and glad you weren't DQ'd.
Anthro14 Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 ahhh, how do you refute it!? i just received a generic email saying that my application did not comply with their eligibility rules, but i have NO idea why. they say you have to submit any questions in writing, so I sent an email and still havent heard. i called today and the women said she was not allowed to tell me on the phone but had to wait to receive an email back. i dont understand!?
Tsujiru Posted January 12, 2011 Posted January 12, 2011 Hi Anthro14, I both emailed and called. I just checked what my original email had said, and technically I guess they had marked my application as "incomplete". It did take a few days for them to get it sorted out and put me in the system correctly, but it did eventually. I would say to just wait a few days to see what they say in response to your email and also keep checking the status of your application on fastlane. I'm guessing the most common reason students are disqualified is because it appears like they have more than 2 years of graduate education. Might this be the case for you?
smokeypup Posted January 16, 2011 Posted January 16, 2011 I just checked my application status after reading this and a weird thing happen. The date they "received" my grad transcript has mysteriously changed. When I submitted my app, it said they received them on oct 28. Now it says they received them on dec 14. Has this happened to anyone else? THink it will make me ineligible?
Anthro14 Posted January 16, 2011 Posted January 16, 2011 So weird! So they did disqualify me stating that I have too many years of grad experience, but I'm still fighting it. I just finished my Masters at UPenn last May and applied for the NSF in my 1st semester of my PhD. Now, my Masters took 2 years of part-time work, bc I was doing Teach for America at the same time. But the NSF solicitation states that you cannot have more than 12 months of FULL-TIME grad study or its equivalent (24 hours) by Aug 2010. By by then, I had graduated having taken only 10 credit hours in a program that only takes 1 year of full-time grad work to complete. I went from education to anthropology. What is really frustration is that I called the NSF office before I applied, told them all this and asked if they thought I needed to submit one of those extenuating circumstances essays. The lady on the phone told me I did not have to bc I clearly did not have 12 months of full-time experience or 24 credit hours. I called the office the other day and said all this to the lady. All she could tell me was to email all of that to the address that told me why I was disqualified in the first place. I did, and received an email back saying that it my email had been forwarded and my application will be re-reviewed, the decision to my appeal to be responded to in 2-weeks. I'm not feeling very hopeful, however. The woman on the phone at their office said that they very rarely repeal these things. Sigh* At least I tried!
hoobers Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 @Anthro14, I think you have a decent shot. The reason they say they so rarely reverse their decision is that most people are disqualified for a good reason. In your case, it really sounds like they messed up. Anyway, best of luck.
Anthro14 Posted January 27, 2011 Posted January 27, 2011 Little update. I got an email from them today saying that my app has been re-examined and moved forward to the merit review process, but that my eligibility still remains under consideration. The final eligibility decision is still pending and is expected to be available at the end of Feb. So.... I guess that's good news. It's been forwarded on to the next round... but not completely out of the woods. Better than nothing!
Anthro14 Posted February 22, 2011 Posted February 22, 2011 Whoohoo! Eligibility officially reinstated today! repatriate 1
kisu1492 Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Whoohoo! Eligibility officially reinstated today! Which NSF program are you referring to? Is it the DDRI? I'm curious about the DQ for being in school for too long and when that kicks in....
waddle Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Which NSF program are you referring to? NSF GRFP
Anthro14 Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 yea, GRFP, and it was originally for too much grad experience. But apparently I made my case and they revoked the DQ. Yay!
kisu1492 Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 Good for you, anthro. congrats. and thanks for the info from the other poster. yea, GRFP, and it was originally for too much grad experience. But apparently I made my case and they revoked the DQ. Yay!
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