thepedant

Oh I see. Good call--the tables are different. If the U of A, for example, knew in advance that their quota was only 36 then presumably they would only submit 36 applications. Maybe the SSHRC table confirms that they were all successful!.. Or not--whatever.

I sure apparently might have been.

I found this on the U of Alberta FGSR website. http://www.gradstudies.ualberta.ca/awar ... 202009.pdf In the second last paragraph it says that the quota for MA SSHRC scholarships for the U of A is 36. The letter as a whole makes it sound as though FGSR would only pass that number of SSHRC MA applications on to SSHRC. On that Master's 2009 statistics table posted a few pages back it says that the U of A has been allotted 40 MA SSHRC scholarships. So this must mean at the least that the U of A forwarded more than 36 applications; but it likely means that most of the applications they forwarded to SSHRC were successful-- or maybe it's just another red herring in the never ending crapshoot that is SSHRC.