The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

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.
 

whatsitmean 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.
 

i got the same one:(

Yeah, I got the same one. Any idea what it means?

Got the same too!

guest_ne wrote:

whatsitmean 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.
 

i got the same one:(

I had temp closed too :(
maybe it's just their way of delaying and everyone will get it

I also got the same one.

abm guy wrote:I also got the same one.

is it a rejection email?

I haven't gotten that email. And I had the Invalid User/PW error. Hmmm...strange.

Same email here. Doesn’t give me the warm fuzzys.

I also got the same one. I was one of the later temp closed's and my school had a 2017 award

Is this a rejection letter? I'm quite confused...

Guest wrote:Is this a rejection letter? I'm quite confused...

I am too. It doesn't seem like a rejection letter, it doesn't seem like a waitlist, but it still doesn't seem like an award would be coming after this...

someone said the award portal is open, but im still getting temp closed

guest_ne wrote:someone said the award portal is open, but im still getting temp closed

So yeah, I didn't get any email but I'm still getting the invalid user/pw error.

guest_ne wrote:someone said the award portal is open, but im still getting temp closed

same. Maybe they sent it in mass and are slowly sending out the awards but won't send out any other rejections??

It just means that your wait listed in case more money are available or some people decline the offer. The odds of you getting an award or hear again from SMART is almost the same as getting strike by lightning.

IHateSMART wrote:It just means that your wait listed in case more money are available or some people decline the offer. The odds of you getting an award or hear again from SMART is almost the same as getting strike by lightning.

***you're

IHateSMARTALot wrote:

IHateSMART wrote:It just means that your wait listed in case more money are available or some people decline the offer. The odds of you getting an award or hear again from SMART is almost the same as getting strike by lightning.

***you're

So as I thought temporarily closed vs incorrect username means absolutely nothing.

whatsitmean wrote:

IHateSMARTALot wrote:

IHateSMART wrote:It just means that your wait listed in case more money are available or some people decline the offer. The odds of you getting an award or hear again from SMART is almost the same as getting strike by lightning.

***you're

So as I thought temporarily closed vs incorrect username means absolutely nothing.

I got that email but was getting temp closed

guest_ne wrote:

whatsitmean wrote:
So as I thought temporarily closed vs incorrect username means absolutely nothing.

I got that email but was getting temp closed

some people got this same email with incorrect username/password :/

Just got mine...well, it's been fun all. Guess it's nice to get some closure on this. Although I'm certainly sad that I didn't get it, it was a good run. Best of luck all.

DefeatedGuest_BYU-I wrote:Just got mine...well, it's been fun all. Guess it's nice to get some closure on this. Although I'm certainly sad that I didn't get it, it was a good run. Best of luck all.

same wording as above??

My guess that it is the waitlist and rejection email wrapped up in one. So that thy don't have to later send out rejections but give enough wiggle room to where if people reject the award then they can still send out the additional awards to others at a later date.

Guest wrote:

DefeatedGuest_BYU-I wrote:Just got mine...well, it's been fun all. Guess it's nice to get some closure on this. Although I'm certainly sad that I didn't get it, it was a good run. Best of luck all.

same wording as above??

Yep, mine just showed up.

This isn't a joke, I just got an email stating I was accepted so awards did go out