Welcome to the NSLI-Y Applicants thread! This is for the Summer & Academic Year 2024-2025 cycle. Good luck!
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If I got into flex last year as an alternate, should I put that on my application this year?
Thanks for creating this. The old threads have been very informative. Excited for this year’s process!
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Does anyone have a link for the Discord, please? TIA!
Good luck to all applicants! Last year the NSLI-Y semi finalist notifications were sent out on Dec. 9th, 2022, so they will likely be released in about a month.
Has anyone received any news about their application for next summer yet?
Not yet. I think they might come out either tomorrow or next week!!
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They just came out. My daughter ( 9th grader) moved to semifinalist stage ( Korean language ; we are not Korean)
Hey, I just found out that I’m a semi-finalist for the Arabic summer. I am a current sophomore and had a good amount of experience/extracurriculars in the humanities & public policy if that helps for future applicants!
Congrats to those that got in! Does anyone know whether US citizens abroad are ever admitted?
I’ve heard they prefer people who haven’t been abroad within the past few years, but there have been many people who have been abroad recently and gotten in! It’s not a disqualification but they try to give scholarships to kids who have less opportunities to go abroad and learn.
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Any updates for summer session interviews? We still have heard back but we did get notice that he is a semi-finalist for Korea.
Hi - have you had your interview yet?
Yes 2 weeks back . You ?
Do you happen to know which programs are the easiest to get into? I applied for Persian Summer, but I am scared…
One person on the NSLI program I was on lived abroad, but was a US citizen
Finally had interview and submitted all forms
Hello Hello Everyone!!
As March comes up, here are my predicted dates for the NSLI - Y releases. Good luck to everyone and please pray for me to go to Tajikistan!!
March 4th: Turkish/Bahasa/Persian
March 5th, 2024 Hindi Summer Acceptances
March 11th, 2024 Mandarin Summer acceptances
March 15th, 2024 Arabic Summer acceptances
March 22th, 2024 Russian Summer Acceptances
Good Luck to everyone!! And please share decisions as you get them 
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Here’s some information about the YES and FLEX Abroad release dates as well since there’s no dedicated thread to either program. They typically come out the 2nd week-ish of March, and I couldn’t find recent information for YES or old information for FLEX.
2018 - March 12th (YES)
2019 - March 11th (YES)
2020 - March 10th (YES)
2021 - Early April (YES, results were delayed)
2023 - March 9th (FLEX)
I would expect releases at the end of this week or the beginning of next. Good luck!
Anyone heard back on Turkey? Seemed like it came out around 2pm EST last year but I’m just speculating lol
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