The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

Maybe the first round is not the killer after all. My understanding is that the first round is academic verification and checking the application for completeness, so it wouldn't be considered "competitive" by any means. Just a note on the timeline: I received my first round notification last year ...

jjm390 wrote:Me too! Not so excited having to wait until May for the final selection, but at least we got this far!

We'll be lucky to find out that soon. If we do find out in May, my bet is that it will be towards the end of the month.

I just received my notification email telling me I've made it through the first round.

Finally!

I've been watching the forum and watching the political news hoping to see something that could indicate some forward motion for us SMART hopefuls. On Friday the House of Representatives passed a defense bill, and all of the news outlets were focusing on the fact that the bill contained provisions f...

I've been worried about the sequestration, but this news doesn't make it any worse for me. The Harvard article is quoting the DOD article from the day before, and the DOD article was written when there was still little more than speculation about how the sequestration was going to shake out. I'm sti...