@sofiavocado Congrats to you too! I’ll see you in New York 
@concertsloth Wow that’s quite impressive! Which program did you end up choosing?
@beachttraveler5 thank you! I actually sent NSLI-Y an email yesterday declining the scholarship 
But I will be in Germany for an academic year and I couldn’t be more excited!!
So have all the semi-finalist results been released? Hang in there academic year applicants!
Russian year has started!
Just got my rejection email for Arabic summer… I’m applying to STARTALK, so hopefully I get that!
Hindi year has started!
@Fangirl1999 is chinese year next?
Does anyone know if the teachers in the host countries are natives, Americans, or a mix of both?
@pac675 I hope not! I have a few friends who are waiting to hear for chinese! I don’t think anyone has yet though.
Where did you see dates for the program? I’m a Tajikistan finalist and from what I can see they haven’t told us any program dates yet.
Hey guys! Really quick I just want to remind you summer Korea finalists that we have a Kakao group chat and a facebook page I /HIGHLY/ recommend you join. All three cities are in this group chat along with some alumni who are always present to answer any questions.
I feel its important to get to know each other so please join! We are really lacking Jeonju and Songdo finalists!
Just find the FB page (through the alumni and korea NSLI FB pages) and ask to be added to the chat!
PS: I realize some people dont have Kakao but I really believe you should get it because honestly everyone in Korea uses it and you might wanna learn how to use the app prior to program
Heres a link to the FB page! (Idk if it will work but we will see)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1130298577115691/
Just replace the stars w facebook.c om!
This is a stupid question but if I already accepted my place as a finalist for the summer is there anyway I could decline it later? I’m probably not going to do that, but I found out that I am a finalist to a fellowship that offers $7500 to do service abroad through my university yesterday (after the nsliy deadline) and I need to know whether I should go to the last interview or not based off if I must go to nsliy since I signed the acceptance. I know this probably doesn’t make sense but whatever. I just don’t want to take a spot away from an alternate.
If you signed the acceptance and sent all of the forms in, then chances are you are now required to participate in the NSLI-Y program. As you said, the deadline has passed and they have already started sending out rejection emails so pulling out now is probably not possible. This is just my assessment but if you want a more reliable opinion, you should inquire with NSLI-Y.
@zoompython yeah that’s what I was thinking. I’d rather just go through nsliy anyway since the other program I would be by myself most of the time and I no longer want to take a gap year. Thank you for your response.
Is anyone waiting for academic year notifs? Im a chinese applicant!
@Dtcardillo99 Me too! Chinese academic year notifications haven’t started yet, but but we should be next because the order is usually Russian, Hindi and then Chinese. Good luck!!
I thought you can pull out. Isn’t that why they have alternates?