r/GRFPApps

Edit: please also share if you got the award or not, as well as your year when you applied (undergrad, gap year, grad).

We need more data to investigate any patterns in ratings/bands, so please self-report if you feel comfortable. By comparing with a few applicants already, I have already noticed a few things.

• Higher ratings (i.e. more "excellent"s) does not consistently result in a higher applicant band
• Possible bias in applicant band by discipline or by reviewer harshness (need more data to confirm)
• Amount of reviewers varies wildly, I have seen 2 to 5 so far.
• Awardees seem to generally come from Applicant Band 1. Don't know anything about HMs yet (other than I was band 3 and was rejected).

Formatting wise, does that mean:

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Just not sure if we need to use a whole line just for the section headers.

So I’m applying to PhD in CS, but I still cant set my mind on whether to apply for the GRFP, which has letters due on the 16th.

I have fully written out projects I’m working on, and I’m pretty sure it will make a good grfp statement. But the problem is, that project is supervised by a very senior professor, so I mainly meet with his postdocs. I’m pretty sure I only have a one time pass to ask him for letters, and I certainly don’t want to use it on grfp. But I do have two other CS professors who can write me letters, and another prof from other disciplines who knows me well, but I don’t want to rush them with a deadline less than 10 days…

That said, in the past week I’ve been trying to convince myself that I’m not going to spend my time on something that might not even help my application; while the other voice is saying I’m screwing this up….

I’m very anxious about this, so please give some advice:

1. Does the grfp boost my chance of getting into a top cs PhD program?
2. Given my situation with letters and time, should I apply?

Tytyty

I’m lost because I see nothing at all 😭

Has anyone won before with human centered research? I keep getting feedback from my advisor that my research proposal is to "health related" and might get denied because it is to human focused. Has anyone written a proposal that has gone through and talks about using humans for data collection? How did you structure it to not be so health related?

It doesn't seem like there's a general consensus here, but I'm finding it hard to wrap my head around the discrepancies in how many reviewers different applicants get. It doesn't seem consistent even within disciplines, and I don't understand why one person gets seven reviewers while another gets two... Curious to hear people's thoughts!

I was HM, band 1, with 2 reviewers: E|VG, E|VG. Chemistry of life processes :)

What made your application successful? How would you recommend someone approach the application process? Templates for research proposals? Etc?