The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

Long story short: I am curious to see if anyone, especially BSEE majors, were sponsored by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), Kirtland Air Force Base, or Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Center? Here's the long story, if anyone is bored enough to read it :lol: I applied for the current SMA...

Got the email, not a first round finalist. Does anyone know when they'll release second round info? Or if there even will be a second round? 2:06 pst MA Mechanical Engineering I noticed that the email said " Please note, a second round of up to 70 additional awards may be issued this month. Your ap...

Not a happy first official email, but here it is: ------ Dear Jeff***********, This message is to inform you that you were not chosen as one of the 230 Round 1 Finalists for this year's award competition. Please note, a second round of up to 70 additional awards may be issued this month. Your appli...

Chris Moulder wrote:

xkcd13 wrote:btw, we set a new record...

"Most users ever online was 35 on Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:02 pm"

lol guys, don't you have homework or something to do

I do, but I have transferitis ahahaha

I don't want to start a flame war or anything here but I would like to point out a few things. If you are a CC transfer student who has grades from your university there may not be a huge deal when being compared to a similar student student at you university, however if you are a transfer student ...

I'm sure that for the most part, it doesn't matter much. A relative of mine works at a certain facility, which was not one of my three preferences. To keep a degree of anonymity, I won't say who the relative is or which base he works at. He talked to the guy in charge of that facility's SMART select...

Are any of you community college transfers?
I haven't been contacted yet, and I fear the reason is because I am a CC student (although I will be transferring to a university for Fall 2011).

I also want to know the answer to this. At the time of application, I didn't know any programming languages, but now I am learning C++.

xkcd13 wrote:
Also, I think I am one of the younger applicants at 20. Who knows how that affects my chances?

I hope age doesn't have much impact on decisions ... I'm 19!

I'm currently a California Community College student, completing the transfer pre-reqs for electrical engineering. This is my last semester as a sophomore, and it will be my final semester at a CCC. I applied with a 3.88 and currently have a 3.91. I did a single research internship during summer at ...