From the “20% of 153” part of somebody’s post
I agree @pomsky7 it is a different award from RISE. @maritimer you will find how the rolling acceptances and declines from DAAD that we did are tense, just as we are finding for the RISE internship.
Ahhh got it. So the Undergraduate Scholarship and the RISE program are two separate things?
Yeah, from what I saw on daad.de . They allow more freedom for choice of University with the Scholarship, while the RISE you have projects that have been already written up by a PhD group
Anybody hear anything?
I have not yet @ponderosa61 . I am still checking my email, as i contacted DAAD directly and my 3 projects as well. I know i am out of the running for at least one project (Hamburg- reactive Distillation), but i have 2 more… Have you tried to email DAAD about general information regarding acceptances?
Now the 2D-Raman project at Erlangen has told me that all spots were filled. Well, I am starting to see a pattern… and I am holding out even less hope for an internship…
Should I just e-mail the students for the three projects?
that’s what I did @bioavailability , and i have been getting rapid responses… also doesn’t hurt to show your personal interest 
Ok I e-mailed them. At least I’ll know something…
Cool- and I will too… because this waiting does hurt. how do you access the DAAD RISE 2015 facebook page? or is it hidden?
Have any UK students heard back? I’ve only been hearing about American and Canadian students ㅠ.ㅠ
I’m a UK student and I haven’t heard back from anyone. A physics student from the UK posted on reddit that he got accepted but he seems to be the only one that I know of. I guess majority of the applicants are from the US and Canada.
So, is there still hope? This seems to be a rollercoaster of emotions regarding waiting for acceptances/rejection.
I actually emailed my PhD students and 2 have responded so far. One says he can’t offer me a place as all the positions are taken, and the other gave me a sort of “unofficial offer” in another project I wanted saying that he’d help me find funding if he could…but the funding isn’t certain. He didn’t really tell me that I was picked for his project though…
I emailed 2 of the PhD students and the supervisor for another, but I still have not heard anything 
I just emailed my 3 PhD students. Waiting for replies…
Just emailed my 3 PhDs also - I’m an engineering student from the UK. I didn’t want to get my hopes up in the first place but the wait is making me anxious!
I got a reply from my second choice… The PhD student says I was one of the top three in his ranking but apparently the project was given to someone else.
Okay… another reply from my third choice. He says he hasn’t heard anything from DAAD either. OMG what?! Does this mean I still have to wait and hope? Plz I’m even tired of hoping now…