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I checked for change daily and mine did not change till the afternoon of today. I even checked this morning and it had still said "incorrect username/password" boxed in red, but after 5pm I checked again due to others seeing it switch and sure enough I now see the green "temporarily closed" message...

How do you all know your "area"? Did you all only interview with one branch?

I checked for change daily and mine did not change till the afternoon of today. I even checked this morning and it had still said "incorrect username/password" boxed in red, but after 5pm I checked again due to others seeing it switch and sure enough I now see the green "temporarily closed" message.

Mine just changed as well!!!!

Do anyone know second round works? I mean if we are not recommended by any facility, does that mean we will not even be consider in the second round? It seems to me that the second round is only for those who are recommended but do not receive the award due to budget constraints. From my understand...

How come no one else got a call? Also, are you sure SMART called you and not just the different facilities that interviewed you? I mean it's possible that either a) others who received a call don't check this forum or b) I'm guessing by the fact they hadn't come across all the discussions about awa...

I don't know what you all are talking about with this temp closed thing. Every time I log into my application page (the same one I went to when I filled out the application), my password and username work fine and I go to an application overview page that talks about the purpose of SMART etc. on th...

My guess is that they will make the announcement next Friday, May 5th due to the fact the SMART said the beginning of May and Mr. Cavenaugh from an SF heard the first week of May from SMART. Another reasoning behind this guess is the fact that they had the telegraphing error last Friday and they are...

I know this topic has been brought up a couple times now but seeing as it hadn't happened in the past month I wanted to check if there were any changes. Has anyone receive a call or email actually from ASEE/SMART to ask about a preference for a sponsoring facility? Based on the history the few prefe...

The 90 day period to come up with a plan is up in either late April or May or early June depending on if you include/exclude weekends and holidays. Hopefully we'll know something but, I believe there will be a delay Well I hope this brightens your day that the hiring freeze is due to be lifted toda...

UPDATE: Dear SMART Scholarship Applicant, Thank you for your application to the SMART Scholarship Program. We are still reviewing applications and hope to make awards by the beginning of May. If you have further questions or wish to remove yourself from the scholarship consideration, please contact...

I am a pursuing a Masters in Electrical Engineering and requested one year of funding. I have had/will be having a few interviews now as follows: Date: 2/16/2017 How: Direct Phone Call/Left a Message (immediate interview upon return phone call) Where: Shaw Air Force Base The interview involved a des...

I never received an email stating I was a semi finalist, however I received an email from a facility stating that they were interested in interviewing me. What does that mean? Would you mind stating in another forum such as "2017 Semifinalists: phone calls or emails for interview now? " which facil...

Right now, it looks like a lot of people made it through the next stage of the award process. How many people were selected to move on? As I recall, it's about 50% that move on in the first stage, then 1/4 are selected by sponsoring facilities, then a 2/3 chance to be awarded after the interview? D...

What does it mean to be a semifinalist? Meaning how selective is it to get past this step, and now that I'm here, what chance do I have of getting an award offer? Addressing people who people previously mentioned they did not get an email with good or bad news. After reading many of the previous fo...

There are no words to describe the copious amount of joy oozing out of me but yes like said previously these next few months will seem the longest waiting for the calls and final awards.

There is a lot more information about the login on the "It's Feb. 1st, will an email come..." forum topic.

In addition, in older forums some people stated the emails were sent out as late as February 15th. Honestly I'd rather them take their time and thoroughly evaluate the applications than try to rush to meet a deadline as much as it kills me to wait. For the amount of time that we probably all investe...

At this point my assumption is that they are cutting off in rounds. Like out of the 3000 whatever applicants maybe they denied access to, for example, 500 people February 1st. An additional more today and so on and so forth until they get down until the final 50%. So even though I can login now I wo...

Is it just me or is anyone else obsessively re-logging back in to the SMART application page to make sure they still can? I noticed that I can login. There is no link to withdraw the application, and also it does not allow for me to access the "Application Instructions" link. Unfortunately I was nev...

So i want to possibly try and see it the reason why some people cannot login and others still can may be because they are running an automated system where it is going down a list and blocking access. So potentially people at the beginning of the list may have had the access blocked while others tow...