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Congrats on the great news! I haven't heard a thing myself, so I'm not too hopeful anymore.
What about everyone's application in the system? Still there? Or have people seen theirs disappear? @p(ache)d mentioned above that they saw their application removed from the system before the rejection email. Mine's still sitting there in the portal, "under review"...

Hi everyone, I thought it would be helpful to update that I applied for the Trudeau and I just got an email stating that I’m a semi-finalist. The email is from the Trudeau Foundation itself signed by Josee St-Martin. No indication of what the next step will be. Best of luck to all of you!

Repping the Canadian front!
 
A U of T Creative Writing rejection (via postal service) from 2009: "To ensure their rejection would land enough punch, they addressed me as Ms. instead of Mr."
 
A rejection for U of T Philosophy from 2007: "I don't want to become a Canuck anyway".
Ouch dude.
This other person (who, granted, got accepted) has the right idea (U of T Econ 2009): "Canuckonomist!"
Yah!
 
There's a playful little back-and-forth on the UBC page for Architecture from 2010.
One person with a rejection wrote something to the effect of: "Well, I guess I'll go with plan B and sell ice cream"
and then another rejected person wrote: "I will be joining my friend in their ice-cream selling endeavour". (Side note: that's not a bad plan B! Canada is cold, but we still like our ice cream!).
 
BUT THEN there's a late acceptance (April 2010) for Architecture at U of T where someone wrote only: "Does anyone want my ice cream truck?! I won't be needing it anymore!"
 
That's awesome! Nice to know that the story for at least one of those applicants had a happy ending!

Yeah, it does seem to be closer to the 9th... I'm expecting probably tomorrow or Friday?  I mostly just want to know, even if I didn't make it to the next round. 

I spent about 5-10 hours per week over the course of a few weeks... probably about 15 hours total.  I had a partial proposal for a project but I had to seriously adapt it to work for this.  And I spent a lot of time editing and re-editing to make sure it fit the Trudeau themes. 

Hmm, good point... I still haven't heard anything so I gotta say I think I'm out of the running.  But it was a long shot!  They seem to only take people who run their own companies, have written multiple books, won Nobel Prizes, etc. :-)

Last year I got the rejection email on February 15 and remember my application just disappearing from the system a few days before that. 

Thanks for the info!  I'll keep an eye out for that... 

I can't help but hold on until I know for sure. Sucker for punishment, I guess. I'll definitely update once I know for sure. I can only hope that my news of rejection or (unlikely) acceptance will be read by future applicants scouring the internet. For now, I can sleep, since the headquarters is closed for the day.

I'm SO happy to see a thread about this here. Now that we're in "early February", I've started going insane with the anticipation. I think we can all agree that this scholarship is a longshot, but I can't help but hope just a little bit. It appears from reading and re-reading posts on the site obsessively that notifications start to go out some time between February 9th to February 11th. It's only the 7th today. This is painful.
Good luck everyone!!!