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It is not! You have to keep asking them until they tell you. I kept emailing them for 2 weeks until someone finally answered and told me I am at rank 18. They are secretive and lack transparancy.. but it is our right to know our rank. 

Hey everyone,
I see many people are hearing back from SSHRC this year and some are wondering about the waitlist. I wrote this post a few years ago about the waitlist based on several email exchanges I had with a SSHRC officer and I see it's been getting some traction. 
Well, unfortunately the post was wrong in some ways because that SSHRC officer provided me with inaccurate information. I know this because I was eventually forwarded to a more senior SSHRC official who corrected their colleague's statements. Specifically, this part was wrong: "In the event that funding becomes available, offers will be made on the basis of the rank of each application in the competition overall." The more senior SSHRC official clarified that offers are made to the next highest ranking application within the same committee. That was a huge difference for me, as I would've been the next highest ranked application overall, but because no one ahead of me in my committee declined the award, I never received an offer. It seems I can't go back and edit the post, so I wanted to correct the record here.
Now, I'll share the story of how the rest of my situation played out for anyone interested, especially those feeling down in the dumps about their rejections... Later that year, I managed to cobble together enough funding and sessional teaching gigs to tide me over for another year and apply to SSHRC again, with a similar proposal but a substantially improved CV and I ended up... scoring even lower! 
I was absolutely gutted. I was frustrated by the ranking process and the way things were handled administratively. I was upset at seeing proposals that clearly should've fallen under the umbrella of CIHR receive SSHRC funding. I was unhappy with seeing that some of the previous year's reviewers for my committee had fewer and less impactful research outputs in their 30+ years in academia than I had in my < 10 years... I felt a lot of stress, strain, and frustration over what is essentially peanuts in funding. 
But, as weird as this will sound, I'm now thankful for it! Just a couple months after the 2nd SSHRC rejection, a posting came up for a postdoc position that was a little outside of my core expertise,  but I thought I might be able to make it work. The supervisor was open to the position being fully remote and it paid about the same amount as a Banting award, plus benefits! I was surprised to get the position very soon after applying. With the livable wage, I haven't had to do any sessional teaching, which has been great. I've ended up loving the position and the work that I do... I've certainly become a better scientist because of the experience and I've also massively broadened my professional network. And I can honestly say my supervisor (a Canada Research Chair) has been impressed with my skillset and valued my work. I'm sure we'll keep collaborating for years to come. 
A few months after starting my new postdoc, I was interviewed for a sweet faculty position at a well-ranked school overseas. I ended up receiving an offer and deferring because my partner and I ended up having a baby. By virtue of being an internal postdoc, I was able to take parental leave while receiving a salary top-up...! (I don't believe SSHRC or even Banting award winners receive any support like that.) Additionally, working remotely has been hugely beneficial for raising a baby. In a few months, we'll be leaving Canada to start my new faculty position and we're really looking forward to our new life overseas. I never would've expected all this around the time of my SSHRC rejection, but things probably couldn't have worked out better for me.
Now, everyone's situation is different. But I share my story to illustrate that even if you feel absolutely devastated, life goes on. And sometimes, not getting such (minimal) funding leads to opportunities that set you down an even better path. Also, don't take SSHRC rankings too personally... they're comparing apples and oranges and pears and doing so quite superficially. For me, I put a lot more stock into feedback I've received from other experts in my field (e.g., those who've read my work, those who've hired me, those who seek me out for collaboration) than a SSHRC committee of "expert generalists". Not getting SSHRC certainly didn't spell the end of my academic career and it might not spell the end of yours either. 
I hope my story helps bring some of you a bit of needed hope and perspective. Wishing each of you, the very best. 

I'm trying to put a chart together for us on the "waitlist," so that we can gauge what our position on the list might be.  Are there any other communities sharing these results? I'm having a hard time getting enough data.

I too wasn’t successful. 15.17 was my score. The committee recommended but because of lack of available funds I didn’t get an offer. Hoping enough people drop so they can offer it to me but that’s a long shot! lol 
For those of you that can’t access the site, have you tried the forgot password button? I did that and got access. 
Congrats to those who were offered funding! 

No luck this year. 
I scored 13.55 for Committee 1, and was told the "Score of the last application recommended for funding: 13.55." So this is frustrating, as I tied to receive funding, but they gave it to the other person(s) who had the same score as me. The letter also said I was recommended for funding, but not enough funds to give out.
For those interested, I received a 4-year SSHRC for PhD, two book chapters, and one article (all peer-reviewed).
Has anyone heard about someone receiving funding after the initial rejection in a situation like this?
Congratulations to everyone (funded or not!), it was a lot of work and a long wait.

Best of luck this week everyone

Also anxiously wanting to know the results, and even questioning if I applied to the right committee(?!) but when I log in I cannot see any old applications.