For all those waiting impatiently until Monday for your school to get back to you...
Be comforted by the knowledge that at least you're not a direct applicant in the US who a) cannot be put out of her misery by a scholarships office with advance notice, AND b) has to wait extra long for international mail to arrive.
*Sob!*
Re: the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements "workaround"-- I believe award winners must formally accept their award before anything is set into motion. So I wouldn't pay attention to whether one has access to the option or not... [*Dying to check but resisting*]