DevsChick

Thanks for doing this! See you there ❤️

This is sounding more positive than yesterday, which is great news! I could also potentially be interested. I'm securely sitting on the fence between being an academic and a practitioner and I'd really like to get down now. It turns out that fences are not comfortable places to sit.

Reading all of your posts is making me feel a bit better but I'm also just still so confused as to how Committee 5's cut off went from 3.89 one year to 5.04 the next year and also how it's possible that 89 applicants scored between 5.04 and 4.07 (my score). My understanding was that there was supposed to be an even spread of results but it can't be so. Congratulations again to those who got it anyway. To everyone, just remember that everybody here has several first-authored publications, scholarships and probably defended their thesis on schedule, so you're among peers. You didn't fail, other people succeeded. @milaraI partly wrote this for you. This isn't a you problem, it's a systemic one and I'm so sorry you're going through this. Please don't lose faith in yourself and report the abuse if you can.

My reading of this is that not only did they get more applications than last year but they also got better applications than last year. The changes in my scores do seem to suggest that my application was better overall, or at least that this committee thought so (I may have been disadvantaged by the pandemic because I do research internationally as well).

I'm in committee five. Last year there were 93 applicants, this year 130, so I'm sure that was a factor. But I would add that last year the score of the last award offered was 3.93 and this year it's 5.06 so obviously something has changed.

Thanks for the support. This was my second year applying. My score was significantly higher than last year, but my rank was significantly lower so I don't really know what to do with all of this. If I had received this score last year, I would be into the second year of funding and now I'm left with nothing.

Just letting everyone know that my results are in my file although I haven't received an e-mail yet. I didn't get it. Good luck to everyone else.

Probably not reverse alphabetical order then, since yours seemed to be soon after mine. I'm Committee 5.

Just to fuel everyone's speculation. My folder was created at 8:37 and briefly I could see someone else's folder in my folder (it was removed). They do have to create like 600 accounts and I assume there must be some logic to how they're doing it. It could be going in reverse-alphabetical order based on my last-name and the last name of the other file I briefly saw. (I'm not at the very end of the alphabet though, but maybe they got started early)

Extranet.support@nserc-crsng.gc.ca

My Username e-mail came immediately before my password e-mail, they are in the same message chain (I'm using a gmail account). Hope that helps. When I log in I see a message saying that my results will be loaded soon. I also seem to have some sort of a file folder that it won't let me access.

Yup and probably?

I think the fact that we're here, and that we were able to get the external support required for our applications is positive in itself. I pulled my application together between September 1st and the deadline so it's a miracle I wasn't ranked last (and that I was able to submit at all) I'm waiting on a SSHRC postdoc application and the good news is that the research proposal was the strongest scoring section, and it's the part that is identical between the two proposals. I'll think positive thoughts for both of us!

I'm really sorry I really was rooting for you.

Me neither, but I'm taking solace in the fact that there were significantly more applicants than last year and I was eligible on all criteria.

I doubt the two things are related (there are a lot more people using research net than just Banting applicants) and if they were I'm sure some applicant would have noted this as a sign in previous years on grad cafe. Probably better to plan for a later announcement date from an emotional perspective. I know this is hard.

I'm just responding to all of your posts this morning. This is typical. They always post different result dates during the application process. Again, last year people started getting their results in the mail around March 3rd (but according to one poster in this thread they're supposedly posting them online this year).

That's amazing! And you got much farther than I did, but I remember figure skating fondly.

Or after? It doesn't really make sense for them to release the results when they know the site is going to be down for more than 48 hrs...

True facts! While I was writing about the race I was thinking about figure skating competitions, but I wondered if that was too gendered of an example. I hope this means you were once a figure skater too, in which case this thread just became amazing! (I think gymnastics, synchronized swimming and dance competitions are all tied into this in some way). I hope one of the options you're pursuing works out for you this year.

You know, last year I was ranked 35th out of 93 in committee 5 with a score of 3.4 on all criteria. My rank was later described as "meritorious but unfunded" by a SSHRC officer. I received no feedback on how to improve what by all accounts was an adequate (but I guess not superb) funding application. I did change my application this year, to a proposal that I think is more reasonable and one that I hope I'll get to carry out but while I was making changes I couldn't help but wonder whether they would be ranked better or worse by the committee. It all felt like a shot in the dark. So I get the lottery feeling, but realistically it's not. We all have worked very hard to finish our Ph.D.s and to pull together funding proposals and chances are most of them are worth funding (otherwise your supervisor wouldn't have signed off on the proposal). I guess it's just a matter of which proposals are eligible and align most closely with your committee's priorities this year. It seems more like a race than a lottery, your success depends on how good your proposal was at the time of submission and the other people running. I don't know to what extent this responds to either of your comments but I felt compelled to write it. I think there should be adequate funding available for all eligible applications.

I hope you're successful this year @musichistorygeek!

I looked at twitter and it looks like the results were announced on February 6th the last two years in a row. The 6th is Saturday, soooooo we could hear tomorrow? Monday? Some other time...? In the meantime we'll all be...

I don't think they always mail the results the last day of February (and in fact last year was a leap year so the 28th wasn't the last day of the month). Based on a review of previous years it seems like they are sent between Family Day (mid-February) and March 9th if we're really unlucky. I too am taking my second go at this, Committee 5. Fingers crossed for everyone, especially us victory lappers.

At least we know they didn't get lost in the shuffle! (2.5 more months!)