NSF GRFP 2008

[slowestwriter3ver]

well, congrats. thats great new for you.

now i'm moving on with my life. :wink:

[infinite]

I'm not on either list. I'm not so surprised since my NSF login page never changes. See, never trust those from NSF who answered the phone.

[cherrifaery]

When I try editing the html to get the awardees for 2008... all I get is a null pointer exception. What am I doing wrong here?

[math123]

ok now i'm sad. NSF is a bunch of douches. They should have just leveled with us. Contrary to their thinking, prolonging the inevitable doesn't make me feel any better.

[LeNea]

Honorable mention two years in a row? I know it's nice to get at least honorable mention, but really, two years in a row is just taunting. I feel like I was thisclose. Twice.

[slowestwriter3ver]

yeah, i'm kind of sad too. i think the NSF is retarded to let people 'hack' (ps, that's not really a hack, if the info is sitting on the server, without any kind of protection) what they have probably been sitting on for a week. i hope someone on their side is following this and sees that the awards got leaked. heck, we should email them.

[slowestwriter3ver]

When I try editing the html to get the awardees for 2008... all I get is a null pointer exception. What am I doing wrong here?

i don't know. but if you want the whole list, PM me and i can email it to you. i downloaded their excel file.

[sigh]

Cherrifaery, me too. I wonder if they took the list down when they realized people were accessing it?

[infinite]

LeNea,

I think it really depends a lot on who was evaluating your application. Two years in a row for HM is ridiculous! Now I am waiting to see what they put on the rating sheets.

[infinite]

For those who got the award, have you ever published anything yet when you were undergrad?

[campingisintense]

just confirming that the awardees list is legit, my name is on there

For those who got the award, have you ever published anything yet when you were undergrad?

i am an extreme case. i had 2 coauthor papers in high school and 1 first author paper in college...

like i said, extreme. i know several people on the list who didn't have any publications in ugrad.

[flobs]

if it adds more credibility..

my names on that list, I've got 2 conference papers (one first author, and one 2nd second) and 1 IEEE journal paper (1st author).. and just got Hertz too.. don't hit me :mrgreen:

congrats to everyone else!

[materialgirl]

just confirming that the awardees list is legit, my name is on there

i am an extreme case. i had 2 coauthor papers in high school and 1 first author paper in college...

like i said, extreme. i know several people on the list who didn't have any publications in ugrad.

I am one of those without publications.

[kamay]

Where are people getting the honorable mention list?

I was HM last year and this is the last year I can apply. Unfortunately, right after I applied, I found out I have two publications in review/in press. Bah... You can be at the top of your field without one, yes? Someone please agree with me!

[lambdaman2]

maybe i'll call NSF and tell them my name is "Name" ... thats on the list.

[campingisintense]

Where are people getting the honorable mention list?

I was HM last year and this is the last year I can apply. Unfortunately, right after I applied, I found out I have two publications in review/in press. Bah... You can be at the top of your field without one, yes? Someone please agree with me!

of course. My PI (MD/PhD UCSD, harvard postdoc) hadn't even heard of the NSF GRFP before this year when I applied.

[infinite]

Oh yeah, what is wrong with that "Name" thing on the list?

[monkeywrench]

Dude, it's kind of random. I had five publications listed when I applied as an undergrad (two first-author), and about sixteen this year (second-year grad) counting the non-refereed conference papers. I'm serious, and I'm not bragging: I got an outright rejection from NSF last time around and an HM this time. So having boatloads of publications isn't what it takes - it seems to be something more intangible than that. ("broader impacts" and "intellectual merit" seems to be the mantra they keep repeating)

Although I am curious - my grades were good but not outstanding, solid B+ average at a tough school, and my subject GREs were so abysmal, I didn't even submit them this time around, which was probably my downfall. Do the people who are getting these basically have all perfect #s? That might be part of it...

[even_it_up]

I think it is fruitless to search for any real rhyme or reason to who wins and why. There's no one thing that will get you in. I made HM this year, with no publications outside of conferences, mediocre GREs (1300), near perfect subject test scores, and a perfect gpa.

[campingisintense]

According to the advice that I read before I started on my app, they take broader impacts very seriously. This is separate from the impacts of your research.

[kamay]

So was there a list of HM posted on this forum that was taken down or something? I saw people saying they got HM. Is it available on your fastlane account?

[bioangele]

Honorable Mentions:

http://community.livejournal.com/who_go ... #t10817527

[thunderbelly]

was there a list of HM posted on this forum

it was linked-to earlier in this thread too.

[thunderbelly]

Oh yeah, what is wrong with that "Name" thing on the list?

that would be the column heading from the excel file, I'd guess.

[hotcupofjava]

Looks legit! GJ modifying the form inputs lol! My friend's name is on the awardee's list and got the offer form after logging in. I'm not on the list and do not see the offer.