Talk Academia

Hard work will get you so far but we all know from peer review that sometimes we don't express ourselves clearly, reviewers misunderstand our point, we end up in a batch of proposals that are so good that ours seems poor in comparison, or reviewers just don't find our idea interesting. It takes bot...

You are automatically rejected and get this email title if you are on the C list even if you are above 70%. Exactly, I received this email with 85, which is clearly above 70, but very far from the cutoff in SOC, which was 92,8 last year. The email I received was very clear. Dear Coordinator, We reg...

Last year's cutoff were shown in tabular form just after the result announcement. Where exactly? On the Europa website? I am guessing, the results may be published on 26th Jan Me too, I guess it's the most probable upcoming Friday for the results to come out. Last year I was notified on Friday 27 J...

I'm starting to have trouble sleeping at night thinking about the results... last year in IF-ST/SOC I got a mere 85, this year I tried to up my game and submitted a completely different (and snappier) project. I've done a lot of research and I feel I've learned so much about this application, but wi...