Fulbright!
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I just got news this morning that I made the first major cut in the selection process for doing a Fulbright in Spain next year! I submitted my application back in September, it went through an on-campus Berkeley review, and then it went to the Fulbright commission in New York. The odds in that round were about 16%; they accepted 27 out of 167 applications last year. I did my best on the application but that’s a lot of competition! So now that I’ve made this first cut my application goes to Spain and the committee there reviews it. According to the program they take 2 of every 3 they receive, so my odds just got much better!
Whether I get it or not, I feel really good at this point. Just making it past this point feels like a huge accomplishment, and doing the application at the beginning of this year helped me immensely in focusing my work this year. Whether I get it or not I’m now planning to do my dissertation research in Spain next year.