da fuq is china year releasin
@baboon345623 No, China Year has not been released yet.
Anyone hear anything about Korea year yet?
Best of luck to everyone that’s still waiting for news!
I just got into the Marrakech program too! I’ll be in Morrocotudo for a year!
The facebook group mentioned that Chinese and Korean Year are definitely out, and I know someone who was accepted to Turkish Year as well. I think that means all finalists have been released. What a month it’s been! Congrats to everyone and best of luck to those reapplying next year and/or pursuing other plans. You will all do amazing things!
Congratulations everyone!! It’s been a long application process but we’ve finally reached the end!! 
Anyone know which cities in China we could be placed in?
Good luck to all the alternates who still have more waiting to do :((
Also, anyone applying for China summer 2017?
@mattydavis2018 If you check out the facebook page for the Nsliy applicants, (I’m pretty sure it’s called Nsliy applicants 2012-2013. It is for every year but the name can’t be changed since there are too many people in the chat.) you could probably find people posting about their acceptances and usually they state where they got placed. But good luck for next year!~
@calii17 Aren’t you an alternate for Turkey? I wish you luck for the extended waiting period!~
@mattydavis2018 I’ll be applying to China summer next year as my second choice.
Me too, but for my first choice. @Faultystart
Ok when NSLI-Y says the programs meant for novice – intermediate level learners, what qualifies intermediate? like 5 years or like 10 years of learning a language?
@mattydavis2018 X Years of learning a language != novice/intermediate/etc. Rather, it’s how well you can communicate and understand the language that determines if you’re a novice/intermediate/advanced. If you’re familiar with the CEFR scale, it correlates with about a B1 or B2 for intermediate. The CEFR Wikipedia page has level estimates of stuff for individual languages too.
I was accepted to a summer NSLI-Y scholarship and am considering applying for an academic program next year in the same language. I know NSLI-Y website says there is a “competitive advantage” given to students who already completed a summer program but practically is this true? And how much “competitive advantage” is there?
Hi! I just discovered the NSLI-Y program the other day and I am very excited about potentially being accepted into said program, so I’ve been doing an enormous amount of research about it. What are the chances of a first-time applier being accepted into the program? Don’t get me wrong - I will reapply next year if I am not accepted. I am not one to easily give up haha! I was just curious about my chances and if I were at any disadvantage.
I know from reading the previous comments on this thread from last year that the application comes out in mid-August to early September, so I’m pretty early to the party, so to speak. 
If anyone has any additional information they would like to share, I would really appreciate it!
@websensation My son did summer in 2015 after his junior year, and is now doing an academic year (taking a gap year before college) in the same language. Of the 8 people in his year program, all 8 graduated from high school this year and all 8 are summer NSLIY alumni. It seemed a clear indicator to me that they had a profile for the kind of kids who are most successful doing the academic year - those who don’t have to worry about finishing high school/applying to college and who have also previously demonstrated their aptitude for successfully participating in a NSLIY program.
@websensation I was in the last round of applications as a first-time applicant for Russian Year 16-17. I talked to a bunch of on-programmers during the process (who were all super helpful!) and from what I heard, it sounds like NSLIY has recently added an intent to split academic year programs in half between newbies and people with prior experience in that language. Like for Russian in Moldova, there would be one beginner class and one advanced class. I’m not sure though if that’s true across the board for all languages (or just Russian) or if it will continue to be true for future years, so grain of salt here. Hope that helps!