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by Idaho ME
Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:14 pm
Forum: General Questions and the Application
Topic: First round notifications
Replies: 17
Views: 12461

Re: First round notifications

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 ...
by Idaho ME
Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:53 pm
Forum: General Questions and the Application
Topic: First round notifications
Replies: 17
Views: 12461

Re: First round notifications

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.
by Idaho ME
Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:40 pm
Forum: General Questions and the Application
Topic: First round notifications
Replies: 17
Views: 12461

First round notifications

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

Finally!
by Idaho ME
Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:12 pm
Forum: General Questions and the Application
Topic: Notifications?
Replies: 70
Views: 55125

Re: Notifications?

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...
by Idaho ME
Thu May 16, 2013 5:57 pm
Forum: General Questions and the Application
Topic: Uh-Oh
Replies: 9
Views: 8669

Re: Uh-Oh

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...