bluesand Posted July 30, 2011 Posted July 30, 2011 Apparently the awards have been announced?? http://news.csumb.edu/news/2011/jul/26/grad-student-lands-prestigious-scholarship
msafiri Posted July 30, 2011 Posted July 30, 2011 WTF? Last year they at least had the courtesy of notifying the rejected before announcing the awards. Oh well. Guess I get to apply yet again next year.
CrTo Posted July 31, 2011 Author Posted July 31, 2011 Strange, I have not been getting the email notifications for posts on here. Anyways, I also just discovered that the fellowship was awarded to the Cal State student. I'm surprised that there is only information about one recipient. Perhaps the other schools will follow suit soon. Really...why can't they send out rejections when they've made their decisions.
bluesand Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 (edited) Do you think they have all been announced and schools are just slow to report the awards (news reports last continued through Feb. '11), or do you think they had budget issues and only announced a couple awards and hope to announce more? It is weird that rejections haven't been sent if awards were 1) sent out and 2) have passed the date for official announcements. (and I am not getting email notifications either) Edited August 4, 2011 by bluesand
bluesand Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Well, the grant is officially gone from my grants.gov account, which means they are done...I can't believe that they didn't send any sort of notice. =P
bluesand Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 Wow, FINALLY got an official rejection letter...
CrTo Posted September 3, 2011 Author Posted September 3, 2011 Wow, FINALLY got an official rejection letter... Yes, me too...That is crazy that only three awards were given! 3/171.
bluesand Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 Where did you see that 3 were given? Did I miss that in the letter? I just checked the website and only 2 are posted! NOAA had problems with other funding this year too.
CrTo Posted November 14, 2011 Author Posted November 14, 2011 I finally received the reviewer's score sheets. It is interesting to see such a spread in scores. I received a 74, 95, and 63. How did you guys fare?
bluesand Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 Mine were variable too: 80, 81, 95. The one reviewer really liked the proposal. Most of my points off were due to a lack of management tie-in. I knew this was lacking, but it was definitely useful to see the review sheets to see what they were specifically looking for (it was better laid out than our guidelines). I also got 5 points off from one of the reviewers for my recommenders not specifically ranking me among my peers -- I think things like this are useful for letter writers to know too. The application has totally changed for next year, but hopefully these will be useful for that process too...
msafiri Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 I got my reviews and my scores were pretty high. An average of 93.33 from the three reviewers. They called me out for two things: lack of science prep (as in coursework) and my project not being in the US. Since I'm beyond the coursework stage, there's really no way for me to fix either of those problems so I won't be applying again. That said, I'm very glad they gave us the reviews this time so that I know not to apply again.
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