The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

I found out that NIWC-Pac has the "New Professional" program. Salaries for the NP program are: BS - $45,875 - 71,475 MS - $80,429 - 88,253 PhD - $103,601 Everyone gets an annual locality pay bonus of about 29.8% your base salary Hi, do you have a link to this info? I just want to confirm it for mys...

I was a semi-finalist last year but not this year. Wow

Mighty Boulder wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:32 pm

aqzws wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:01 pm

We found out February 3rd at 04:59 pm last year.

What time zone was that? Pacific? Eastern?

Central

We found out February 3rd at 04:59 pm last year.

Spoke to the SMART office today. As of 3:15, there were about 2000 completed applications and about 8000 in progress. The person I spoke with indicated there might be over 500 scholarships awarded this round. That's interesting... I wonder how many out of the 8000 in progress hit that submit button...

I found out that NIWC-Pac has the "New Professional" program.

Salaries for the NP program are:

BS - $45,875 - 71,475
MS - $80,429 - 88,253
PhD - $103,601

Everyone gets an annual locality pay bonus of about 29.8% your base salary

I hope someone from your field can weigh in, but I'll throw this out there again about the PhD process---SMART does not play well with PhD applicants. There's a hard limit on funding. If you don't finish your research by then, you're in default with them on every penny given to you, including inter...

Hello all, I am a graduate student in a joint MA/PhD program that's interested in the SMART scholarship. I am currently participating in the NREIP internship program at as a human factors engineer and would like to continue working in a DoD facility as a SMART scholar. I applied to the SMART scholar...

Applications open up in a month!

For human factors you could try applying to some of the Navy facilities. Specifically, Naval Submarine Medical Research Lab and Naval Undersea Warfare Center have human factors scientists/engineers. I think NUWC is bigger than NSMRL so probably has more funding. Wow! Thanks for the heads up :) I'll...

We should scope this thread in a way that helps us make our applications more competitive. If you were awarded the scholarship, could you provided your materials anonymously?

I know we're dealing with our initial reactions to the rejection, but we should start working on tips and strategies for winning the scholarship next year. Background info: Program: PhD Human Factors (Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Sciences) Years remaining: 3 years Grad GPA: 3.9 Experience: 1 pu...

The extra 2000 views come from me

Current date

I've seen it on previous days.

I'll take the blame

You'll get an email.

Last years winners found out on Friday April 5th at 9 am CT.

Does anyone else think awards will be announced this Friday? It sounds like they were announced Friday April 5th of last year.

I found out I will be participating in a NREIP internship this year AFTER submitting my SMART application.. so if I do not get it this year I like my chances next year. I was unable to mention my NREIP internship on my application

When is the last week? Last week of March. It is my understanding that the first week of April is when finalists are notified (much like first week of February was when semi-finalists were notified). I was told the last day that SFs had to make their selections was today March 18. Unless that has c...

I can't imagine internships will be fulfilled. DoD travel (to include DoD civilians AND contractors) is restricted through May 11, ATM. Most DoD employees are teleworking as well. Any scholar who has an internship that it supposed to begin around this time period should also be restricted from trav...

Bookworm1225 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:54 pm

PhD in Molecular, Evolutionary, and Systems Biology. 0 interviews.

Does anybody know the chances of being awarded the SMART scholarship if you haven't been contacted for an interview?

I'd also like this information.

I am in a joint MA/PhD program in the cognitive, neural, and behavioral sciences. I have a publication and mostly academic research experience. I have an NREIP internship this summer but was unable to put that on my SMART application since I had already submitted my application by the time I found o...

I'm a semi-finalist and have a NREIP internship coming up this summer in San Diego. I hope the coronavirus will not interfere with my internship.