monkeybrain

How frustrating! Still, it's a good thing that you were able to get it figured out quickly. A friend of mine in a similar (but different) situation had people coming after her months later, asking for their money back -- and then reissuing incorrectly large cheques at the next pay period.

It sounds to me like no news isn't bad news, but rather no news is McGill admins are being dicks. I'm in Toronto and still haven't received my official letter yet.

Posting an incomplete profile, for privacy reasons. Successful/unsuccessful: Successful MA/PhD (if PhD, specify SSHRC/SSHRC CGS/Vanier): PhD SSHRC CGS # of years into program: 1 MA Major Awards & Value: SSHRC MA PhD Major Awards & Value: standard entry funding package Graduate GPA: 3 As, 3 A+s, 2 A- Research contributions/Publications so far: one publication in a small peer-reviewed journal Level/Form of Departmental Support (i.e. SSHRC workshops): one school of grad studies workshop, a few one-on-one sessions with professors, multiple peer-reviews University at the time of application: U of T University where you will take up the award: U of T Note: I applied directly to SSHRC last year and was resoundingly rejected. This year my statement of interest was much, much better. So, it is completely possible to come back from rejection.

I feel terrible for those of you still waiting for results. It's completely unnecessary for your school to not tell you ahead of time. Try to keep your hopes up. Good luck! For what it's worth, though -- I don't think that anyone here will have a single list showing everyone who has received an award. My understanding is that there are separate lists for each university. Agreed about "privacy" not being a real issue here -- the results are released publicly in the summer. A simple google search will turn up the list of last years' winners.

holy shit, CGS! When I didn't hear from my dept secretary first thing this morning, I had written myself off as unsuccessful. Sometimes, it's good to be wrong...

Sunny, I sent you an email. For what it's worth -- the results are posted publicly in August, so I wouldn't be too too fussed about sharing this info.

Thank you.

OK, it's forty minutes into the workday on Monday. C'mon, results. Let's go.

If this is the case, expect to hear a lot of cursing from my end. The earlier information that we received projected MA results to the FGSes on May 4th and PhD results on the 11th. What would be the reason for delaying this by mere days? What can be done in days that couldn't've been done already? Surely the results are already compiled, and it's just a matter of distributing. I can't imagine that anyone is still looking at applications. Cursing cursing cursing.

I had really wanted to find out the results today. I didn't expect to, but I wanted to. Just putting that out there.

For what it's worth, I think many of us will be rejected by SSHRC, and it won't be because our proposals were crappy -- it'll be because some SSHRC reviewer decided they liked another equally intelligent and deserving student's proposal better. It is possible to write a great proposal, have great letters, have great grades, and still be rejected.

Everyone who has heard so far is an MA (or going into their MA), so I would hold off the harassing until Monday or Tuesday. I'm with you in the anxious-PhD-waiting boat.

A-list = not B-list. A-list = application made it out of the institution, and on to Ottawa.

It's something weird at your university. Try asking someone else. Or show up in their office.

I would keep contacting your school officials. I would pester them significantly. I might even show up in their office. Certainly you should show up in your department office. They know! You should be told. Don't wait. Piss people off! That's what I would do. Good luck!

I'm not sure that I understand this "letters will be mailed on date X" business. I'm expecting SSHRC to contact my graduate studies office, and then they will contact my department, and my department will then contact me. So surely I will hear from my department before getting the formal letter, yes? Because my dept secretary is faster than Canada Post? Right? Please enlighten me if I am misunderstanding the process. I understand that this process does not apply to those who applied directly to SSHRC; I am speaking about the process for those of us who applied from within a university. The last time I applied (three years ago) was at the MA level, and SSHRC emailed me to let me know my result. I don't understand why they've switched to lettermail ... but that's a whole 'nother gripe, I suppose.

Thanks to all who have posted their correspondence from SSHRC. This is helpful information.

Heh, this would've push my department's deadline into late August!

I went to the same information session as you. 89 MA-level SSHRC proposals were forwarded. Many would have come from students in the fourth year of the undergrads, who are coming from U of T (and not necessarily continuing at U of T -- because you must apply within the school you are currently attending). Of those 89, 84 received and accepted SSHRC awards. The five that were not awarded SSHRC could very well have been offered them and turned them down, either because they decided to not go to a Canadian university, or because they decided to take a year off, or something of that nature. Ask Peter Grav -- he'll tell you that, in all previous years, if your MA SSHRC application made it to Ottawa, you'd be offered an award.

No, SSHRC does not care about switching schools.

Also, keep in mind that the 5-10% who do not receive SSHRCs most likely have turned them down (because, for example, MA SSHRCs cannot travel outside of Canada, and the student may have decided to attend university in the states). If you applied for an MA SSHRC and your application made it to Ottawa, AND you do not have any errors with your application (missing transcripts etc), rest assured that you will be awarded one.

In SSHRC's defence, post-doc letters were mailed on March 25th. Post-docs have known about their results for a while.

My MA SSHRC application (for which I received an award -- this was a couple of years ago) had a typo in the first sentence. Try not to fret about the missed citation too much. You've got to save up that fretting for the generalized, all-consuming variety. I suspect we'll hear early next week. My understanding is that we'll find out one way or another before we receive the letters (either by pestering our grad studies offices or by pestering our departmental secretaries).

Did you hear your cry echo about five minutes ago? That was me.

Out of curiosity, which livejournal community was this?