by Guest » Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:08 am
As someone who went through this process last year, I can tell you that the next official communication you will get will be about the first round of final decisions in April. If you were recommended by more than one facility, someone from SMART might call you to review your preferences. Also, it is true that a recommendation is not a guarantee, though I don't know the statistics on that. Basically, every sponsoring facility has X number of slots it can fill, and if the individual labs/groups/teams within that sponsoring facility combined recommend Y>X applicants, then unfortunately some are going to be dropped. At least, that's how I understood it.
My recommendation would be to try and forget about SMART for the next 3-5 weeks and just relax. You'll hear about it soon enough.
As someone who went through this process last year, I can tell you that the next official communication you will get will be about the first round of final decisions in April. If you were recommended by more than one facility, someone from SMART [i]might[/i] call you to review your preferences. Also, it is true that a recommendation is not a guarantee, though I don't know the statistics on that. Basically, every sponsoring facility has X number of slots it can fill, and if the individual labs/groups/teams within that sponsoring facility combined recommend Y>X applicants, then unfortunately some are going to be dropped. At least, that's how I understood it.
My recommendation would be to try and forget about SMART for the next 3-5 weeks and just relax. You'll hear about it soon enough.