Are acceptance rates/yields for both the Japanese FALCON program and the FLAS scholarship available?
We don’t maintain formal statistics, but I can give you a general sense. It’s actually not very hard to get into FALCON, since the program is geared toward beginners in the language but keep in mind that we do have a cap of 12 people in the fall/spring portion of the program. The FLAS competition is considerably tougher. Our applicants are competing against those in other areas that fall under the East Asia Program rubric, so you’re competing against fellow FALCONers, as well as graduate students in other areas. In a typical year, the FALCON Program is granted one FLAS per language (so, one fellowship for Japanese and one for Chinese).
