<p>I don't live on a coast -- I live in the Midwest. Where winter lasts for six months. Maryland would definitely be an improvement, weather-wise... So, j0b0sapi3n and bagelicious, what did you apply for, just to get an idea?</p>
<p>i put down both electrical engineering and computer science, because i want to do both in college, but i think i emphasized electrical engineering more</p>
<p>I haven't heard anything either. What's the phone interview like?</p>
<p>just received my mail package notifying me that i am a semifinalist</p>
<p>as for the phone interview -- very basic, just confirming your information</p>
<p>Yep, I just got the package too. I guess they're flying us out to Maryland in three or four weeks... I wonder when we'll hear more about that?</p>
<p>I called today and they said all the semifinalists would be notified by the end of the week. It seemed liked they notified the electrical engineering applicants first. It would be nice to know something by 1 May.</p>
<p>polygraph...i'm actually kind of scared about that...it's like in ootp when snape threatens to slip veritaserum into harry's pumpkin juice...<em>shudder</em></p>
<p>I got an email!! YES!!</p>
<p>Way to go munkeegirl!</p>
<p>I got a package too but i didnt get an email or phone interview. I also didnt hear anything about flying anywhere for an interview. Anything else Im left out on?
Anyone else wondering what the salary is for the positions and if graduate school would be possible?</p>
<p>"the employee agrees to continue in the service of the NSA/CSS following completion of the Stokes Program assignment for a period one-and-a-half years for each year of the assignment or part thereof"</p>
<p>So how long is that?</p>
<p>meaning if you study for 4 years, you have to work for them for 6 or if you studied for 3 years you'd have to work for them for 4.5 years -- 1.5 times the amount of time it takes for you to graduate.</p>
<p>i'm also wondering if they have a graduate school program because i may want to go directly to grad school after college</p>
<p>i also read somewhere that about 2 or 3 years ago nsa engineers were paid around 70k, i'm not sure about now though and whether or not that was if you had been working for them for a long time</p>
<p>Wasn't there mentioning of working for them in between summers as well?</p>
<p>Also, we don't need to put every single thing about our lives right? Only the last 2 years?</p>
<p>Like I went to China when I was 5. I can just put down NONE since it wasn't the last two years, right?</p>
<p>On the Where You Have Lived page, there's a blank for "Name of Person Who Knew You", can this be a parent? Or must it be a friend? It only says it can't be a relative IF YOU LIVED OVERSEAS. But I was here.</p>
<p>While it may not be anything, I would never, ever, talk about anything on an NSA contract or form if I wanted to keep a job there, especially since they doubtlessly read this forum (Or will once they see that you have been here).</p>
<p>Just a thought.</p>
<p>hmm, anyone wanna fill me in on the phone interview stuff since i didnt get a call. Some people said they were finalists of last year's and still waiting, does that mean that we wont know if we are accepted before college? Cuz it would mean turning down other scholarships to wait for this one.</p>
<p>I really don't think it's much of anything since those questions seem pretty standard. Lot of places ask where were you in previous years.</p>
<p>Perhaps, but a lot of places are not NSA.</p>
<p>Anyways, congratulations on getting in, I wish I had made the cut.</p>
<p>why would you have to turn down other scholarships? if anything, you can just turn them down later...</p>
<p>like someone else said earlier, the interview's just verification stuff like your address and stuff like that.</p>
<p>geez, they want minorities, but i think it's the minorities who will get security clearance last because of all the funky logistics with moving and names and relatives. arrrgh. sometimes one wishes one were white. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Argh, it sounds so strict. I wonder how many people actually <em>got through</em> this program. Anyone else a tad intimidated? BTW, where in the letter does it say we're going to get flown to maryland?</p>
<p>I never got an e-mail, but got a semi-finalist package in the mail. I live in MD, so it's not too far for me. Have friends who worked there as work study in high school (and some who tried but failed to get in) and they said the polygraph was rough. They said if you've ever done anything remotely illegal, whether you got caught or not, you were in trouble.</p>