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I received OGS without even applying for it directly. Anyone with a similar experience? I am starting my PhD this September and upon acceptance to the program, the department also told me that they have put my name forward for both OGS and for SSHRC. I don't really understand how I can get OGS that way, but I did. Weird.

Hello fellow grad students. I have a sort of strange question. I never applied for SSHRC or OGS separately this year, as this coming September will by my first PhD year and I wasn't ready to submit a proposal yet back in November (when the deadline was for independent applicants). But one of the universities whose PhD program I got into (they offered me acceptance on February 2nd) also said in the admission letter that the department has recommended me for OGS and for SSHRC. But I never filled out a separate SSHRC or OGS application. I wasn't aware that this could actually happen that way. My understanding was that I apply to SSHRC and OGS separately and cannot just be "recommended" by the department only through sending an application for the specific PhD program. A large part of me didn't even believe that I was in the running for OGS and SSHRC, but I received an email from OGS on April 2 saying that my application was successful. So I am now also anxiously awaiting SSHRC results, but feel kind of silly because I haven't gone through an application myself. Is anyone else here in a similar situation or has heard of someone receiving SSHRC that way? I remember SSHRC being a very demanding application and somehow I'd find it odd to receive SSHRC just by applying to a PhD program, being accepted by it and recommended by it for a SSHRC. Or am I missing some key information here? Thanks for enlightening me, and good luck everyone!