physicsgoat Posted March 27 Posted March 27 Out of curiosity, how/why did people choose a specific DoD agency versus selecting "applies to multiple agencies"?
confessionsofaphysicsgeek Posted March 27 Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 11:10 PM, mossheadd said: Quick question for my curiosity mainly, but are y’all going into a graduate program or already attending one? Expand I’m in my second year of my PhD. This is the 3rd time I’ve applied for NDSEG lol
confessionsofaphysicsgeek Posted March 27 Posted March 27 On 3/27/2025 at 11:22 PM, physicsgoat said: Out of curiosity, how/why did people choose a specific DoD agency versus selecting "applies to multiple agencies"? Expand My research only fit well with the AFRL BAA. Also the application says you can only pick one but then has "applies to multiple agencies" which has always confused me.
walrus416 Posted March 27 Posted March 27 (edited) Currently a 2nd year in my program, my research really only fits into the ARO BAAs Edited March 27 by walrus416
physicsgoat Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/27/2025 at 11:45 PM, confessionsofaphysicsgeek said: My research only fit well with the AFRL BAA. Also the application says you can only pick one but then has "applies to multiple agencies" which has always confused me. Expand I see, I was also confused about this. My research applies to BAAs from all 3 agencies. It also allows you to choose multiple and rank them in that drop down menu. I interpreted it as "choose only one from the drop down menu options", but you could easily also interpret this as "choose only one DOD agency". Hopefully choosing applies to multiple doesn't come back to bite me
ThreeSpringrolls Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/27/2025 at 11:10 PM, mossheadd said: Quick question for my curiosity mainly, but are y’all going into a graduate program or already attending one? Expand I'm going into a graduate program. I'll be starting this Fall. confessionsofaphysicsgeek 1
AppChecker12 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/27/2025 at 11:10 PM, mossheadd said: Quick question for my curiosity mainly, but are y’all going into a graduate program or already attending one? Expand 2nd Yr, Only time applying, wrote on a bnAb which DoD isn't the biggest fan of, so shouldn't have gotten hopes up, but at least we all tried lol.
ThreeSpringrolls Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/28/2025 at 5:16 PM, phys0797 said: So do we think today is the day? Expand It's possible, but my gut is telling me next week is more likely. I'd like today to be the day though
htf2006 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 (edited) It seemed like in the prior years administered by Sysplus (I think 23-24, 20-21), the portal was updated with selections on the Friday of the week of the "second batch" of March updates (i.e., 3/25-26 for us). I took a leaf from one of the prior years' commenters and called the NDSEG PMO office. I was redirected from the number on the website to the Program Manager's direct line, but she didn't pick up. I suppose that means she's busy, so I won't call again, but just sharing that I did try it. I'd imagine even if ~1% of the applicants try calling that's some 80 calls/day asking the same Q from her pov lmao. Edited March 28 by htf2006 Walthus and ThreeSpringrolls 2
confessionsofaphysicsgeek Posted March 28 Posted March 28 I’m running out of hope that it’s coming today 😭
phys0797 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/28/2025 at 7:42 PM, confessionsofaphysicsgeek said: I’m running out of hope that it’s coming today 😭 Expand Yep, looks like today isn't the day! NannerG and confessionsofaphysicsgeek 2
namboo Posted March 28 Posted March 28 I applied for "Cyber Sciences", and also interpreted pick one as pick one of the options, and IMO the cyber sciences applied kind of uniformly so I chose "applies to multiple agencies". I got my last update on 1/30. I haven't seen anyone apply in cyber sciences earlier in the convo. Is it possible there still might be updates rolling out, or am I out of the running?
sam100402 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 I think those of us who haven't gotten a March update are most likely cooked unfortunately
guavalava Posted Sunday at 03:47 PM Posted Sunday at 03:47 PM (edited) @AstroGator Your row says selected on the spreadsheet, when did your status update to selected?I'm not sure late March updates are a strong indicator this cycle since so many are getting them. There could be another round of updates this week. Edited Sunday at 03:50 PM by guavalava AstroGator 1
AstroGator Posted Sunday at 03:55 PM Posted Sunday at 03:55 PM On 3/30/2025 at 3:47 PM, guavalava said: @AstroGator Your row says selected on the spreadsheet, when did your status update to selected?I'm not sure late March updates are a strong indicator this cycle since so many are getting them. There could be another round of updates this week. Expand No idea how that got changed but most certainly an error! Just (re)checked and mine still says “Under Evaluation”. Caution is definitely warranted when trying to predict anything from these updates. Hopefully (real) news soon!
adsflow42 Posted Sunday at 04:14 PM Posted Sunday at 04:14 PM (edited) On 3/30/2025 at 3:47 PM, guavalava said: @AstroGator Your row says selected on the spreadsheet, when did your status update to selected?I'm not sure late March updates are a strong indicator this cycle since so many are getting them. There could be another round of updates this week. Expand Agreed - another round of updates and/or some deviation from previous years. Edited Sunday at 04:15 PM by adsflow42
confessionsofaphysicsgeek Posted Monday at 08:41 PM Posted Monday at 08:41 PM Guessing nobody heard anything today?
adsflow42 Posted Monday at 08:47 PM Posted Monday at 08:47 PM On 3/31/2025 at 8:41 PM, confessionsofaphysicsgeek said: Guessing nobody heard anything today? Expand I did not hear anything. Added some stats to the excel file for this year. confessionsofaphysicsgeek 1
kkkkkkrrrrrr Posted Monday at 10:01 PM Posted Monday at 10:01 PM Am about to do it, but has anybody emailed to see when we might expect to hear back?
SugarLegitimate Posted Monday at 10:06 PM Posted Monday at 10:06 PM Mine still says "Under Evaluation" but i havent gotten an update since 11/7 for ARO Biosciences (including Tox). What does this mean?
confessionsofaphysicsgeek Posted Monday at 10:09 PM Posted Monday at 10:09 PM (edited) On 3/31/2025 at 10:01 PM, kkkkkkrrrrrr said: Am about to do it, but has anybody emailed to see when we might expect to hear back? Expand I emailed in the second week of March and they said "Late March to Early April" Edited Monday at 10:29 PM by confessionsofaphysicsgeek typo “says” -> said ThreeSpringrolls 1
CommentLurker Posted Tuesday at 02:27 PM Posted Tuesday at 02:27 PM FYI -- SMART offers came out this morning. So, I'm hoping that the end is near. I can't wait to just know / be done with this! guavalava, musicandbrain, SpankyMcNasty and 2 others 3 2
ThreeSpringrolls Posted Tuesday at 05:05 PM Posted Tuesday at 05:05 PM On 4/1/2025 at 2:27 PM, CommentLurker said: FYI -- SMART offers came out this morning. So, I'm hoping that the end is near. I can't wait to just know / be done with this! Expand SMART is DOD as well right? And given there were already two weeks of March updates, I'd reckon our results are just around the corner.
bayernuard Posted Tuesday at 06:31 PM Posted Tuesday at 06:31 PM Have there been any updates past the 3/26 one? I'm glad SMART came out. I'd just like this to be over at this point. confessionsofaphysicsgeek 1
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