ontariograd

My bad -- that's what I was thinking of. So it's not necessarily divided equally, but that there are 'ranks' rather than objective 'scores', meaning that 5/30 doesn't represent an awful application or anything particularly wrong, but the application that was ranked in that position-- someone was going to get 5/30. This is another aspect of the process that could be explained much more clearly.

My understanding is that if you received a rating like that you applied independently directly to SSHRC, right? I also understand that those numbers they rate you at out of 30 are not 'scores' as such but are ranks. So that out of the pool of people you were ranked in, at least 1/3 of them would have a rank of less than 10/30, a third of them would be 10-20/30 and a third would be above 20/30. Although a rank like 5/30 could be disappointing (I know - I was once there as well), it doesn't represent an awful application, just a good one that was ranked lower.

A word of warning: I applied for a OGS for my masters (2006-7) and was placed on the reversion list. I was never 'actively' notified that I eventually won the scholarship, and did not notice until I was applying for a doctoral OGS a couple years later and, for kicks, checked the old application status, which said I was a successful applicant. In the end, it didn't make a difference. I had decided not to go to my Ontario school for my masters. Be warned that you should keep checking your online status every few weeks, just in case. I also heard of a 'friend of a friend' who was in the same situation, but did go to an Ontario school for his MA. The school withdrew his funding because they were informed that he had received the scholarship, but he was never told and so never formally accepted his OGS. And now I am, once again, on the reversion list and (this time) am compulsively checking the website.