HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS I GOT MY GRANT SCORE.
Jul. 26th, 2010 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaUnder the new scoring system, NIH peer reviewers assign scores ranging from 1 ("exceptionally strong with essentially no weaknesses") to 9 ("very few strengths and numerous major weaknesses"). These scores are averaged and multiplied by 10, to produce a 2-digit number between 10 and 90. The lower you score, the better. They also figure your percentile, and lower is also better there.
I got a 15. That puts me in the 2nd percentile. I am told that only one, extremely senior, researcher scored better than I did.
Holy crap, you guys!! A 15!! Right up there in "essentially no weaknesses" territory!!
I have never, ever heard of anyone getting this good of a percentile score. My professional stock has just gone way way up.
2nd percentile. 2nd percentile. 2nd percentile.
Not to be immodest, or anything, but I AM THE MOST AWESOME PERSON WHO HAS EVER BEEN AWESOME.
I got a 15. That puts me in the 2nd percentile. I am told that only one, extremely senior, researcher scored better than I did.
Holy crap, you guys!! A 15!! Right up there in "essentially no weaknesses" territory!!
I have never, ever heard of anyone getting this good of a percentile score. My professional stock has just gone way way up.
2nd percentile. 2nd percentile. 2nd percentile.
Not to be immodest, or anything, but I AM THE MOST AWESOME PERSON WHO HAS EVER BEEN AWESOME.
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 05:44 pm (UTC)Also, regarding the awesomeness: yeah, that!!!!
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 05:50 pm (UTC)Who's a superstar then? Come on, say it with me, who rocks? RIVKA ROCKS!!!!
Edit: And all that editing, all that nightmare condensing, totally paid off.
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Date: 2010-07-26 06:19 pm (UTC)I mean, when I allowed myself to fantasize about a good score, I imagined getting into the 12th percentile. 2nd is just ridiculous.
I am a TOTAL FUCKING SUPERSTAR.
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 05:51 pm (UTC)So, have you told Lydia yet?
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:54 pm (UTC)Bwah! Rivka, can you have a photographer standing by when you tell her?
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:53 pm (UTC)(dancing around the room in celebration!)
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:53 pm (UTC)YAY.
Also there may be a little muffled chuckling at Lydia's impending discomfiture, but whatever, this is really about you, not her.
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 05:55 pm (UTC)I AM THE MOST AWESOME PERSON WHO HAS EVER BEEN AWESOME.
(you rock! go you!)
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 06:06 pm (UTC)That number means that at least half of the reviewers thought your proposal was "exceptionally strong with essentially no weaknesses", and most of the rest probably thought it was "strong with a minor weakness" or whatever a 2 is.
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Date: 2010-07-26 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 06:17 pm (UTC)HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS I GOT MY GRANT SCORE.
Date: 2010-07-26 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 06:25 pm (UTC)N.
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