The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

The award portal is open. I was able to log in.

"Congratulations! The Department of Defense is pleased to offer you a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program. The offer of award will expire on May 21, 2017. After careful review of all documents please indicate your intention to accept or decline your SMART Scholarship offer below. If you wish to accept this award, please complete the Acceptance Section and complete and submit the required award documents found on the left of this page. Please pay close attention to the due dates for these requested materials.

If you wish to decline this award, please complete the Declination Section, as well as provide a brief reason for declination.

Should any of your award information be incorrect, please immediately complete the Award Adjustment Section found here. Changes to the terms of this award must be approved by the DoD, may affect your award status, and will require issuance of a new award.

Please complete all required documents found below and submit them through mail to ASEE no later than May 21, 2017 as per the instructions given in your Award Cover Letter."

did you get an email?

Guest wrote:did you get an email?

Not yet. It appears acceptance emails haven't been sent yet. Which makes sense; they would have lots of attachments.

Guest wrote:

Guest wrote:did you get an email?

Not yet. It appears acceptance emails haven't been sent yet. Which makes sense; they would have lots of attachments.

So you didn't get the weird notification email in the other thread either?

Guest wrote:The award portal is open. I was able to log in.

"Congratulations! The Department of Defense is pleased to offer you a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program. The offer of award will expire on May 21, 2017. After careful review of all documents please indicate your intention to accept or decline your SMART Scholarship offer below. If you wish to accept this award, please complete the Acceptance Section and complete and submit the required award documents found on the left of this page. Please pay close attention to the due dates for these requested materials.

If you wish to decline this award, please complete the Declination Section, as well as provide a brief reason for declination.

Should any of your award information be incorrect, please immediately complete the Award Adjustment Section found here. Changes to the terms of this award must be approved by the DoD, may affect your award status, and will require issuance of a new award.

Please complete all required documents found below and submit them through mail to ASEE no later than May 21, 2017 as per the instructions given in your Award Cover Letter."

This isnt a lie mine is open to. Have yet to receive any type of email from smart

Guest wrote:

Guest wrote:The award portal is open. I was able to log in.

"Congratulations! The Department of Defense is pleased to offer you a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program. The offer of award will expire on May 21, 2017. After careful review of all documents please indicate your intention to accept or decline your SMART Scholarship offer below. If you wish to accept this award, please complete the Acceptance Section and complete and submit the required award documents found on the left of this page. Please pay close attention to the due dates for these requested materials.

If you wish to decline this award, please complete the Declination Section, as well as provide a brief reason for declination.

Should any of your award information be incorrect, please immediately complete the Award Adjustment Section found here. Changes to the terms of this award must be approved by the DoD, may affect your award status, and will require issuance of a new award.

Please complete all required documents found below and submit them through mail to ASEE no later than May 21, 2017 as per the instructions given in your Award Cover Letter."

This isnt a lie mine is open to. Have yet to receive any type of email from smart

So mine is still closed but I haven't gotten the weird email "not" rejection. I'm still getting the invalid user/pw error.

I'm so confused

I just got into the portal too! I was awarded. Yes!!!!

Congrats to everyone who received the award. I received the non-rejection email and never got the temp closed portal notification, so I'll make the assumption that I'm gone. Hopefully next year they'll make this smoother for any future applicants.

Is there anyone who can access the portal that was getting the Invalid User/PW error?

Thank you for applying for the Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program. The Department of Defense will be continuing to make awards over the next few weeks. If the Department of Defense is interested in making an award to you at a later date you will be notified.

If you do not receive further correspondence, this will serve as your final notification regarding the 2017 application cycle. Please consider reapplying in the future if applicable to your academic situation. We appreciate your interest in the SMART Scholarship Program.

dummy wrote:Thank you for applying for the Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program. The Department of Defense will be continuing to make awards over the next few weeks. If the Department of Defense is interested in making an award to you at a later date you will be notified.

If you do not receive further correspondence, this will serve as your final notification regarding the 2017 application cycle. Please consider reapplying in the future if applicable to your academic situation. We appreciate your interest in the SMART Scholarship Program.

thats what i got... i had temp closed and still have temp closed. idk what it means because it doesnt sound like a rejection

guest_ne wrote:

dummy wrote:Thank you for applying for the Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program. The Department of Defense will be continuing to make awards over the next few weeks. If the Department of Defense is interested in making an award to you at a later date you will be notified.

If you do not receive further correspondence, this will serve as your final notification regarding the 2017 application cycle. Please consider reapplying in the future if applicable to your academic situation. We appreciate your interest in the SMART Scholarship Program.

thats what i got... i had temp closed and still have temp closed. idk what it means because it doesnt sound like a rejection

I think its their rejection notice, in the nicest way possible...friendzoned

That doesn't make sense why would they give false hope?

I received the "So-called Rejection Letter" in the email. I had the incorrect username and password thing for the portal as well. I don't what else to think now!

Maybesomeday wrote:I received the "So-called Rejection Letter" in the email. I had the incorrect username and password thing for the portal as well. I don't what else to think now!

Maybe it has to do with the budget increase and that they haven't added the additional scholars they may be awarding plus the waitlisted peeps?

Alright shitheads, stopp running around in excitement and tell me...what do you have that I don't have?!?! Congrats though to awardees

SMART also monitors this unofficial forum. We're exposing the leaks in their process. They know how bad their process is for something running under the DoD. Some of you being rejected may have been added to their award portal just so in the future, students do not know a month ahead of time if they're getting the award. When you email SMART and ask questions, it feels like you're getting answers from 1980s robots. I got waitlisted/rejected and I know my app was one of the most competitive, at least top 10. No facilities interviewed me because I only put USAMRIID as a preference which no longer participate in the SMART program. Yet, I was able to select it because the app system was outdated. SMART, if you're reading this, do better, be better, STOP SCREWING PEOPLE's FUTURES LIKE THAT.

AngryRejectee wrote:SMART also monitors this unofficial forum. We're exposing the leaks in their process. They know how bad their process is for something running under the DoD. Some of you being rejected may have been added to their award portal just so in the future, students do not know a month ahead of time if they're getting the award. When you email SMART and ask questions, it feels like you're getting answers from 1980s robots. I got waitlisted/rejected and I know my app was one of the most competitive, at least top 10. No facilities interviewed me because I only put USAMRIID as a preference which no longer participate in the SMART program. Yet, I was able to select it because the app system was outdated. SMART, if you're reading this, do better, be better, STOP SCREWING PEOPLE's FUTURES LIKE THAT.

I did not know that! I put USAMRIID as well. I was in contact with some affiliated labs, and they seem to now know what I was talking about when I mentioned I applied to SMART. Even contacted Dr. Bavari, and he just said he forwarded my email to HR. Oh well. I hope they update the list. As a biochemist who wants to work for the DoD, it's really hard finding an appropriate place.

Do the numbers add up on how many received the award? I know there's no way of knowing this but maybe the full 200-300 were not awarded tonight?

biochemist wrote:

AngryRejectee wrote:SMART also monitors this unofficial forum. We're exposing the leaks in their process. They know how bad their process is for something running under the DoD. Some of you being rejected may have been added to their award portal just so in the future, students do not know a month ahead of time if they're getting the award. When you email SMART and ask questions, it feels like you're getting answers from 1980s robots. I got waitlisted/rejected and I know my app was one of the most competitive, at least top 10. No facilities interviewed me because I only put USAMRIID as a preference which no longer participate in the SMART program. Yet, I was able to select it because the app system was outdated. SMART, if you're reading this, do better, be better, STOP SCREWING PEOPLE's FUTURES LIKE THAT.

I did not know that! I put USAMRIID as well. I was in contact with some affiliated labs, and they seem to now know what I was talking about when I mentioned I applied to SMART. Even contacted Dr. Bavari, and he just said he forwarded my email to HR. Oh well. I hope they update the list. As a biochemist who wants to work for the DoD, it's really hard finding an appropriate place.

I'm a cell biologist with only 2 years left to finish my PhD. In my case, USAMRIID was my only preference choice because it was my favorite. I wanted to show them how much I wanted to work there and decided to leave the other 2 slots empty. It was a choice during the application process but it's no longer part of the program, you can't even find it on their website now. Facilities would not even try to interview you if they know you're not interested in working for them. SMART screwed me over!!!

Guest wrote:Do the numbers add up on how many received the award? I know there's no way of knowing this but maybe the full 200-300 were not awarded tonight?

If that college list posted a while back was correct it was only ~150 awardees.

Guest wrote:

Guest wrote:Do the numbers add up on how many received the award? I know there's no way of knowing this but maybe the full 200-300 were not awarded tonight?

If that college list posted a while back was correct it was only ~150 awardees.

my school said one from 2017 for navy and thats exactly what i applied for but got the rejectee email.... and had temp closed

AngryRejectee wrote:

biochemist wrote:

AngryRejectee wrote:SMART also monitors this unofficial forum. We're exposing the leaks in their process. They know how bad their process is for something running under the DoD. Some of you being rejected may have been added to their award portal just so in the future, students do not know a month ahead of time if they're getting the award. When you email SMART and ask questions, it feels like you're getting answers from 1980s robots. I got waitlisted/rejected and I know my app was one of the most competitive, at least top 10. No facilities interviewed me because I only put USAMRIID as a preference which no longer participate in the SMART program. Yet, I was able to select it because the app system was outdated. SMART, if you're reading this, do better, be better, STOP SCREWING PEOPLE's FUTURES LIKE THAT.

I did not know that! I put USAMRIID as well. I was in contact with some affiliated labs, and they seem to now know what I was talking about when I mentioned I applied to SMART. Even contacted Dr. Bavari, and he just said he forwarded my email to HR. Oh well. I hope they update the list. As a biochemist who wants to work for the DoD, it's really hard finding an appropriate place.

I'm a cell biologist with only 2 years left to finish my PhD. In my case, USAMRIID was my only preference choice because it was my favorite. I wanted to show them how much I wanted to work there and decided to leave the other 2 slots empty. It was a choice during the application process but it's no longer part of the program, you can't even find it on their website now. Facilities would not even try to interview you if they know you're not interested in working for them. SMART screwed me over!!!

Hey man, I feel your pain. I got rejected from NSF GRFP and that is my last year eligible. I am very disappointed at this moment too...

I did not know that! I put USAMRIID as well. I was in contact with some affiliated labs, and they seem to now know what I was talking about when I mentioned I applied to SMART. Even contacted Dr. Bavari, and he just said he forwarded my email to HR. Oh well. I hope they update the list. As a biochemist who wants to work for the DoD, it's really hard finding an appropriate place.[/quote]

I'm a cell biologist with only 2 years left to finish my PhD. In my case, USAMRIID was my only preference choice because it was my favorite. I wanted to show them how much I wanted to work there and decided to leave the other 2 slots empty. It was a choice during the application process but it's no longer part of the program, you can't even find it on their website now. Facilities would not even try to interview you if they know you're not interested in working for them. SMART screwed me over!!![/quote]


Hey man, I feel your pain. I got rejected from NSF GRFP and that is my last year eligible. I am very disappointed at this moment too...[/quote]
Words can't describe how I feel right now. I'm listening to imperial march with a cowl on my head trying to somehow channel my anger.