SadieLou
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4 minutes ago, msfinley said:
Was she by any chance on any sort of leave or part-time status? In 2020 I took a year-long mat leave but still received my funding and I was taxed on it in 2021 because scholarships are apparently only non taxable if you’re also registered as a full time student during the time you received the funding. Awful surprise during tax season lol as I therefore owed a lot and hadn’t been expecting to.
Hmmmm! That's deeply unfortunate and unreasonable; I'm sorry to hear you got a nasty surprise.
But I don't think she took a leave. Maybe it's an avenue worth pursuing, though. Like, if she didn't put in her tuition amounts or something, maybe they assumed she wasn't enrolled? Would be an odd approach by the CRA, but everything is odd about our situation as internationals (and, also, the CRA).
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Hi, all! Just spent like 15 minutes trying to get into this old account after years. I swore that once I got my SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship I wouldn't ever go through the SSHRC process again. And yet . . .
Just acknowledging the infinite depths of anxious despair into which we have all been plunged and bemoaning how asymmetrical deadlines get the more we progress. I get it--people are finite and overdrawn (especially these days)--but scrambling to defend this month *and* enduring the Big SSHRC Wait is kinda torture.
Anybody ever get told by the CRA that the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship is taxable, by the way? I have a friend in my situation who filed it as a non-taxable scholarship, like I did with mine from my Master's and PhD, and was told flat-out that she was wrong and needed to pay tax on it. Even though it was reported on a T4A (I think? living in America these days). I thought things didn't get taxable until the postdoc.
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On 5/9/2018 at 10:59 AM, fabula said:
Congrats! Time to celebrate!
What changes would you say made the difference? (I'm waitlisted and it looks like I'll be trying again.) Advice welcome.
Thanks! Honestly, it really just felt pretty random. I added a published review and a couple of conferences, and I re-wrote my program of study, but the project and letters were basically the same. I just tried to write very clearly and explain all terminology, making very obvious the sort of practical payout of a very theoretical project (philosophy) and citing things that made it clear that I was familiar with pertinent literature. Last time I used headings to make it seem more organized, but I took them out. My score was embarrassingly low last time, and the huge jump in score did not feel warranted.
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Hey all! Finally. Doctoral Fellowship, external applicant (Atlanta), 14.4. *Passes out.*
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I just want to point out that, as of Monday delivery, Atlanta is still letter-free.
It always boggles my mind that it takes about two weeks to get a letter from Ottawa to a major city about a fifteen hour drive away in the U.S.
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Any direct applicants from the U.S.?
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It arrived! No SSHRC this year. But I'm working on ramping up my CV for next year.
- cosmokramer, RailRoadToad and 1Q84
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1 minute ago, 1Q84 said:
Same in LA...
Um, so have we confirmed that unsuccessful applicants also receive mail notifying them of that (especially at the same time as success applicants?) Or do they either not mail anything, or mail it at a later date?
I assumed that people with numbers who were not successful must have gotten them from their letters?
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Nothing in Informed Delivery in Atlanta.
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Nothing in Atlanta.
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Just now, spicytunaroll said:
at this point i wonder if i should just email sshrc and be like "i accept the award" just to troll them into telling me anything (I haven't received the letter yet lol)
That would result in either the best ever response or the worst ever response. I guess . . . if you like high stakes . . . not a half-bad idea.
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I think somebody asked this earlier: I did email my supervisor from my last (Canadian) institution asking very innocently if SSHRC might have given them my results, and he was like, "Nope. Sorry!" So, that route seems to be out.
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Just now, riverrr said:
The waiting is making me crazy! I just want to know already, one way or another.
Yep.
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2 minutes ago, riverrr said:
I cannot believe that someone in the UK received their SSHRC letter while I, in Toronto, have not.
It's been five business days out of an estimated 4-6 business days for standard Canada to U.S. letterpost, so I doubt they've expedited anything international, either.
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Hahahahahaha twice a day.
I haven't left home in so long . . .
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True, but somebody mentioned that at least one non-standard letter was scanned?
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56 minutes ago, rugox said:
Damn it, still no SSHRC letter in USPS Informed Delivery.
Same. Maybe it's extra thick and so needs to be hand-sorted?
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Well, the mail came again . . . with all the Informed Delivery mail, but no SSHRC letter.
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When I went back, I looked closer: it's actually a DVD.com rental, so not junkmail at all. DVD.com ships first class. Maybe . . . maybe first class sometimes is delivered separately from the rest of the mail? Sometimes?
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I'm so confused. I checked the mail, and there was one piece: it was Netflix junkmail. But my Informed Delivery inbox said that three pieces of mail, none of which were this Netflix piece, were slated to be delivered today. Could it be that junk mail is somehow delivered separately? Grr.
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Ha ha ha ha.
I considered doing that math yesterday, but I decided to cry and sleep at 8:30 instead.
They could also give that money to unsuccessful applicants so they can afford therapy after surviving the results process.
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9 minutes ago, adepaola21 said:
The letter is 7 by 10 inches.
Thaaaank you, adepaola21!
America-dwellers, Informed Delivery may or may not be helpful, since it only sends scans of machinable letters that do not need to be hand-sorted, which means that a letter of 7" by 10", if that's what you're gonna get, probably will not be scanned.
If any America-dwellers received standard-sized envelopes, I would be interested to hear.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022-2023
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I feel like somebody needs to give SSHRC a head's up about "under-promise, over-deliver." Like, if they told me I'd know in April, and I found out in March--amazing!
As it is, I'm basically a walking vegetable.