NDSEG Fellowship 2012-2013

[quags367]

I had received a still being considered email and then was emailed again today and received the award. Best of luck to the rest of the applicants! I am in chemistry and an incoming student if that is of interest to people

Congrats, cp13! Do you know which agency funded you? (not sure if they tell you in your acceptance letter)

[QuantumGypsy]

Congrats, cp13! Do you know which agency funded you? (not sure if they tell you in your acceptance letter)

 

Hey quags, I see you're also in MatSci. Are you still being considered too?

[quags367]

Hey quags, I see you're also in MatSci. Are you still being considered too?

Hey Quantum, I am! My guess is that if I get funded it will be by the ARO since my proposed research is something they fund heavily, which is why I asked cp if he/she has info on the agency funding them. I'm a 1st year grad student. What about you?

[cp13]

hey guys, thanks and unfortunately it doesn't say. I also applied for something extremely fundamental with regards to military applications so it's hard to predict which office would have funded it. Probably not the HPCMO, all of the others I would say are possibilities. 

[quags367]

Hmm, still no word. Can't tell if the other agencies haven't made their decisions yet or not.

[QuantumGypsy]

No word here either...I'm also a first year graduate student. If I had to guess, I'd say that either the ARO or AFOSR would fund my project. I'm working on Earth-abundant absorbers for thin film solar cells.

[hungry]

Still no word here either... I'm in Electrical Engineering

Edited April 17, 2013 by hungry

[buffalowizard]

Still no word here... I imagine my application would fall under ONR.

[nnnnnnn]

I'm another Matsci with no word yet...

[anacron]

Still waiting; computer science; and funding agency would probably be HPCMO

[quags367]

Has anyone recently emailed or called them? Just wondering if we have any updates on where they are in the process.

[throwaway123]

accept/reject deadline is today...

[daisusaikoro]

Nothing yet... And it's my birthday :\

[quags367]

It seems improbable that nobody here (sans cp) has heard back, especially being offered an award, if the DoD has in fact made all their initial offers. Just my two cents.

[Eckingsan]

So maybe that means those of us in limbo will hear back tomorrow?

[anacron]

I wonder why they chose to send out "waitlist" emails given that they've never done so in the past. Weird decision, IMO

[trpldmr]

i too was waitlisted and have my speculations

 

- First thought was there were an initial wave sent out by ASEE, and then second tier to be somehow decided and divvied up amongst individual departments.  The stated award process has apps filtered by ASEE and then sent to the DoD, so presumably it's now in that step.  The line in the email about "it's not official until you hear from us" was optimistic, like "you're gonna get one but we have to decide from where first", but knowing other people already got offers on April 3 and since is a little disheartening

 

- Some suggested it depends on your subject or DoD branch, are there any patterns in those awarded?

 

- Most likely a simple waitlist, as people have to accept/reject by today.  NDSEG has quotas it has to meet between DoD departments, subjects, and demographic info so after the first wave of awards they have a pool to restructure.  This leaves me the most skeptical - the ppl who reject I would presume to be < 5-10%

 

Have been super anxious and trying not to think about it.  Was originally pretty excited b/c I thought my app would be shot down a mile away so a little proud, but more and more convinced I'll leave empty handed with every passing day 

 

But who cares!  In the long run your research will speak for itself (still young at heart   )

[sandyo]

I had received a still being considered email and then was emailed again today and received the award. Best of luck to the rest of the applicants! I am in chemistry and an incoming student if that is of interest to people

 

When do you have to accept/decline by? I'm wondering how long this rolling awards process is going to last.

[sandyo]

That's if you got the notification on 4/3, right? They're still sending out awards -- cp13 got notification on Monday. I'd guess they'll give people like that more than 48 hours to accept/decline.

[cp13]

my deadline was set as april 29th. I would guess, it is two weeks from when you hear, as I heard on April 15th.

[Eckingsan]

So that means this could drag out even longer... I'm wishing they didn't send us anything :S

[quags367]

When do you have to accept/decline by? I'm wondering how long this rolling awards process is going to last.

I, too, am wondering how long this will last. I'm losing hope at this point, but congrats to those that have received it!!

[SlickMcFavorite]

I still haven't heard back since the initial "You're still being considered" email. 

Also, I am not currently able to log in to the NDSEG site -- anyone else having problems?

 

 

PS: If you're accepted for the NDSEG, are you obliged to do the research you describe in your proposal? I may be joining a lab that doesn't have much to do with my original proposal...

Edited April 18, 2013 by SlickMcFavorite

[buffalowizard]

I'm still able to log in...

[ema]

I also can't log in, I think someone called about this and they said it was a known bug, and if you do log in the info may be inaccurate (e.g. it was saying that people declined the offer when it hadn't even been offered, this happened to me when I could still log in.)