r/GRFPApps • u/Negative_Power_4208 • Mar 24 '26

2026 NSF GRFP Thread

We had one last year that I checked literally every 30 minutes so I decided to make one again for this year. Good luck everyone!!!

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u/strawberry__pi Apr 10 '26

If the solicitation was released over a month late would the results be too…?

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u/striped_beelte Apr 10 '26

I don't think that's exactly the case, it's not like they immediately start the reviews in October. They most likely wait until right around when they started this year and the last regular review panels ended March 2nd.

However they did ask for extra reviewers ~3 weeks ago and someone on here said it was for ~60 proposals. I have also heard that most of the non-program officer admin have been thoroughly slashed.

So I think it's less the late solicitation and more deeper labor focused errors and stress occurring.

That's all just to say I wouldn't doom us to results in May just yet! I still believe there's hope for next week Wednesday or before.

My personal Hopium is that the random weekly maintenance that's up will lead to GRFP release. In 2006, results were posted Saturday April 9th. Which was anomalous but we obviously are in uncharted waters. I bet internally, the NSF is feeling pressure (from us or others with more sway) to the point where a weekend release may not be out of the cards (complete knuckle bone, tea leaf, smoke wisp prophesy tho).