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 14 minutes ago, mossheadd said: Quick question for my curiosity mainly, but are y’all going into a graduate program or already attending one? 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 11 minutes ago, physicsgoat said: Out of curiosity, how/why did people choose a specific DoD agency versus selecting "applies to multiple agencies"? 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 11 minutes ago, 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. 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 1 hour ago, mossheadd said: Quick question for my curiosity mainly, but are y’all going into a graduate program or already attending one? I'm going into a graduate program. I'll be starting this Fall. confessionsofaphysicsgeek 1
AppChecker12 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 15 hours ago, mossheadd said: Quick question for my curiosity mainly, but are y’all going into a graduate program or already attending one? 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 18 minutes ago, phys0797 said: So do we think today is the day? 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 48 minutes ago, confessionsofaphysicsgeek said: I’m running out of hope that it’s coming today 😭 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 March 30 Posted March 30 (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 March 30 by guavalava AstroGator 1
AstroGator Posted March 30 Posted March 30 4 minutes ago, 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. 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 March 30 Posted March 30 (edited) 27 minutes ago, 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. Agreed - another round of updates and/or some deviation from previous years. Edited March 30 by adsflow42
adsflow42 Posted March 31 Posted March 31 5 minutes ago, confessionsofaphysicsgeek said: Guessing nobody heard anything today? I did not hear anything. Added some stats to the excel file for this year. confessionsofaphysicsgeek 1
kkkkkkrrrrrr Posted March 31 Posted March 31 Am about to do it, but has anybody emailed to see when we might expect to hear back?
SugarLegitimate Posted March 31 Posted March 31 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 March 31 Posted March 31 (edited) 28 minutes ago, kkkkkkrrrrrr said: Am about to do it, but has anybody emailed to see when we might expect to hear back? I emailed in the second week of March and they said "Late March to Early April" Edited March 31 by confessionsofaphysicsgeek typo “says” -> said ThreeSpringrolls 1
CommentLurker Posted April 1 Posted April 1 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! musicandbrain, guavalava, SpankyMcNasty and 2 others 3 2
ThreeSpringrolls Posted April 1 Posted April 1 2 hours ago, 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! 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 April 1 Posted April 1 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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