<p>Does anyone have any idea of when NSF will announce awards? I know it's sometime in early April (in other words, now) - but perhaps someone has the inside scoop on a more exact day.</p>
<p>With the amount of traffic GradCafe is getting on this topic, if nobody there’s the wiser, nobody here is likely to be.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks. I guess an email will come when it comes. Best of luck everyone.</p>
<p>According to a post on the GradCafe, the NSF has answered phone inquiries with “results will be announced within the week” since this past Thursday. Also, in recent years results were posted online at 1am EST, so don’t hold your breath during business hours.</p>
<p>Fastlane is going down for maintenance tonight. Knock on wood!</p>
<p>Tuesday, April 6 at 1:06am was when I got my award notification last year, if it’s any help (obviously I just checked my e-mail… I don’t remember that 
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<p>Award notifications are now available at <a href=“https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do[/url]”>https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do</a>
You just need to search for your name.</p>
<p>Tried searching for my name but it is taking forever for the page to load… I don’t know if the system is overloaded (or if I really want to know - ignorance of rejection is bliss right?)</p>
<p>It took several minutes for mine to load as well. Is an honorable mention a big deal?</p>
<p>Yes- an honorable mention is a big deal (at least I think) - obviously not quite as cool as an award, but it is something special. Congrats!! (if you got one)</p>
<p>I still can’t get any list to show up on the website. Can you (Ouroboros313) please post the excel file if it is available? That would be fantastic.</p>
<p>I don’t have the excel file. What I did was type my first and last name in the search box on the right and hit search. It took several minutes for it to load. I only got my results and nothing else.</p>
<p>Okay thanks. Congratulations on the honorable mention!</p>
<p>The excel isn’t available yet and you can’t search for the 2011 awards as a whole. But searching for names works perfectly.</p>
<p>I think the status of honorable mention depends on your environment. Honestly, if going to a top school, I would leave it off because so many people have the award itself (for example, Berkeley + MIT + Stanford + Harvard have a massive share of the awards). But there are lots of less well-known programs where even HM’s are rare (and thus are a big deal). But after graduating, definitely take it off… I haven’t seen anyone in the middle of their career with HM on their CV.</p>
<p>The list is up now.</p>
<p>Yeah, I guess I meant for a first (or second) year grad student, it can be something special (even within a top program, it is something special as not everyone gets it), but yes, I agree that I wouldn’t imagine it would carry much weight after finishing grad school (something to show your merit as a grad student while you are one).</p>
<p>My boyfriend got a congratulatory email at 1am last night. Weird hours, NSF.</p>
<p>Did they give any awards to first or second year graduate students this year? According to the online awards list, every single fellowship recipient in my specialty is currently an undergraduate student. On the other hand, the majority of Honorable Mentions in my specialty are currently in graduate school. Weird…</p>
<p>They always send out the award notifications at 1 am, lol. I wonder why? I got my award notification at around 1 am last year - I happened to be still awake.</p>
<p>I disagree with the advice to leave off Honorable Mention at top schools. I’m at one of those places and HM is still quite an honor here. But yeah, it is something that comes off after your first post-doc or something.</p>
<p>Congrats to all the recipients and HMs!</p>
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<p>They’re supposed to ratchet up the standards by quite a bit as you apply later and later. A guy who reviewed for the fellowships in past years told me it was basically a miracle that I got it as a 2nd year graduate student, for example.</p>