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I got the same reply. How strange!

@blinky Thanks for the excellent sleuthing! Good luck all.

This is really good to know! Thanks for telling us. I’m gonna email them for the comments.

Got the rejection email today, on 2/22 at 1:28pm. See you again next year.

Got a request this afternoon to enter a Canadian permanent address to be eligible for the doctoral competition. I’m a direct applicant from a US school. So they are at least beginning to sift through the applications.

No news on the portal or email for me either. The SSRC app was easily my least favorite - I reread my material and they are only slightly coherent and messy af.

GreenCholulaForLife, I and 11 other people were selected earlier this week to participate in the fully funded AAS-SSRC Dissertation Workshop in Honolulu. SSRC is open and appears to have plenty of money. I was really confused by this speculation - do you know something that we don’t?

See below.

I'm a direct applicant this year. Have never applied before and so am not expecting much. I'm really interested in seeing how they score me.

I applied for the pre-doc fellowship this year. Not expecting much, but am interested in seeing how they score my application.

How does one receive these transcript requests generally? By email or do we need to endlessly reload the application portal?

If you’re planning on studying languages spoken in South or Southeast Asia, you should be eligible for SASLI or SEASLI summer language programs. Both of them offer FLAS and tuition scholarships.

Trudeau Foundation does not seem very accountable or transparent. I can actually no longer see my review scores on the portal - too bad for them that I already downloaded the scores as an .xlsx file when that was on offer. This evasiveness is nicely ironic given that as an abolitionist activist and scholar, one of my essay answers was about transformative justice and accountability. I am sorry to hear this. I have been finding lots of strength in my work lately, but I really want fellowships so that I can have more time to do that work and also keep organizing without having to TA. Hopefully one of the other fellowships will come through for all of us.

Did you get into the second round too? Congratulations! I am not saying that non-Canadian applicants didn't go through, but that they probably had higher threshold than 100, which was my score and one of the Canadian second rounder's score. I honestly wish I just didn't have to worry about fellowships because once I start thinking about something I get obsessed about understanding how people assign analytical weight to things. I spent like 2-3 years on GradCafe forums before finally applying to PhD programs when I felt like I understood how American PhD admission committees weigh different components of the application.

I am interested in this too, if possible. Because I scored exactly the same as Call_me_Betty and only a point lower than Polisci2016, but have clearly not advanced. Either the scores don't mean what we think; Or as I suspect, schools outside Canada have a quota and selected international candidates scored higher than me. Also, congrats to all three of you! I truly hope that you kill the interview!

This was the last year I could apply, although it was my first time applying. Now moving onto worrying about ASA MFP and Zeit Siftung fellowships.

Congratulations!

Thank you for even trying! It's under profile -> grant -> filter to review scores (details).

Congratulations!! If you don't mind me asking, what were your scores on the portal and has the status changed on there for you?

I'm still checking while knowing there's no point. So glad I took the day off from working today for unrelated reasons.

Well, I'll be drunk-knitting and refreshing pages until I fall asleep. Sorry that you're all in this hell too.

Ooooh, good theory. It seems like the scores have been there for a while though. I only discovered how to look at them today, so I dunno.

Yes, I think so. The application had more than two parts, so I feel like two scores could only correspond to the two recommendation letters.

I agree with the previous theory that the scores are possibly only the scores assigned to the 2 recommendation letters. All the max and min scores posted here average out to the average score.

Is it just the one star off to the left that looks like buttons for favoriting? If so, they were always there for me.