lisafara

Well, no SSHRC for me so far. Seems like it may be the same for others. I e-mailed my graduate funding dept. at McGill and they told me that the alternate list remains "ongoing". They also said that, since I graduate in October, if I clear the alternate list but have my program completed, I just don't get an offer (even if I have submitted the same project and clear the list after graduating). Here's hoping! ?

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Don't lose hope alternates! I'm still having dreams about getting an award, we may be closer than we think!

No movement for me !!

I suppose SSHRC/NSERC/CIHR has not updated yet considering all of us are silent lol! Here's hoping we hear something next week, if not then the waiting game continues. ?

Congrats! Will you take it?

Nothing yet, but I suppose movement is subject to where we are at on the list and what each university's deadline is to inform alternates (I'm assuming there is a secretary or someone in charged of manually informing applicants + updating the portal). Maybe we may even hear something tomorrow? Monday? I rather today lmao esp. since the deadline was midnight this morning for the first round of folks to accept/reject offers

You too!!

Tomorrow is the day that some universities will send offers to alternates! Here's hoping, and I also check my portal every day. Lol admittedly I check it sometimes twice per day

April 22 for the win, yo!

I'm not sure about anyone else but I literally keep having dreams that I will get off alternate and that I win the award. Anyone able to predict the future here????!!!! lol!

LOL I'm sure its a good sign. We have to have good faith that it will come!!! I wish McGill did it sooner than every 21 days so painful lmao

Don't lose hope! Covid exists and people may have gotten even better offers from other schools! I don't know how so many people figured out their rankings on the alternate list (lmao) but truly don't give up. You never know. Right now I'm basically telling myself I am number 5 on the list as I had a dream that I was (lmaaaaao). If we think too much about numbers and investigate we could literally lose our minds

I also realized that the waitlist is probably not too long. I think I heard/saw in other gradcafe posts that some lists go up to 30. Which, in McGill's case would make sense, as they only have 95 awards to offer university wide. I'm thinking the list could actually range to about 25 (hoping its a bit less), as this would constitute around 1/4 of awards declining (which makes sense as that is likely very probable). Also remember covid is still around, which means there are probably students who do not want to move to another province to be in constant lockdown and isolation (this happened for my cohort last year, and a majority of students did not continue into their second year of studies).

Nothing yet! Aggressively checking my portal every day lol. I have a good feeling it will come, it may take time. Some universities wait 21 days to inform alternates (so April 22 would be the date) so even if its quiet for a bit that doesnt necessarily mean bad news!!

Not sure, but it seems you should get an e-mail. I received an e-mail from McGill stating that an e-mail should be sent, but applicants should check their portal daily and check their spam folders

I totally feel you!! Waitlisted at McGill. Same boat. All we can do is believe!!

Universite de Montreal

If it makes anyone on "alternate" feel better, I was just told by a friend that she knows someone who had "alternate" this morning, but got "offered" five minutes ago

Honestly I have no idea. But once you're waitlisted you aren’t in competition with your department anymore. You take spots that others have declined as a part of your faculty. So I presume I’m up against the humanities as it’s sshrc- and then it just depends on your rank. Honestly it’s looking pretty hopeful. I’ve found lots of comments online about folks getting their alternate turned to offered in previous years.

Thanks! Keeping my hopes up but not expecting much. I'm just tired of bureaucracy. Unfortunately im an alternate at McGill and they place lots of people on waitlist. But they also have more allocations to hand out, so hopefully I get a status change sooner rather than later. It's tough when you know your application was well worth the official offer, but what can you do. It's all politics and quotas at the end of the day.

Me too

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Maybe not!! You never know!! Wishing you the best of luck

This is also very tricky to establish as it says "full time equivalent in last two years of study". I found a presentation online that breaks this down, if can be found under https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/files/gps/webinar_staff_2020.pdf. Tricky thing is it seems if you are a part time student within that two year mark, they may actually take those class averages into account until they count back 24 credits. So for example I have one year of full time graduate studies, and then five consecutive semesters of part-time studies before that (which equates to 24+ credits). But it's hard to say if they looked at that. It seems there's strange wiggle room with the "24 credits of full time equivalent"