Luck absolutely plays a big part in these things - Last year I was put forward by my school for the Trudeau Scholarship - my score from SSHRC though? 9.2/20!
This year I got the fellowship, and my score is 18.9/20. Absolutely ridiculous considering my proposal remained the same, but I added two conferences and a single journal article (which should absolutely not warrant over doubling my score.)
Holy crap, just found out from my awards office (at UW) that I'm being awarded a SSHRC doctoral fellowship - in complete disbelief considering last year I received an incredibly low score of 9.2/20.
I received nothing, and a really low score of 9.2/20 from a multidisciplinary committee Oh well, hopefully I'll do better next year now that I have some pubs, conferences, and awards under my belt!
Anyone else at UWaterloo? The original e-mail we received when our applications went to the national level indicated that SSHRC will notify us directly of our result, but I saw a Waterloo professor congratulating their student on winning a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship via twitter on Friday. The not knowing is just driving me crazy!