DrMyEyes
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2 hours ago, lethalpear said:
I'm in BC still waiting for mine.
I would encourage NO one to find your worth in the ranking #s, whether high or low. My supervisor, who has been through the process and seen many students go through over the last two decades, said straight up that it is a total crapshoot. The difference between a 3.9 and a 4.0 is marginal, not to mention that all of these figures are totally subjective depending on who is looking at it. Folks, you're all capable and worthy. Don't hang your hat on your score or whether or not you get this (easier said than done, I know).Amen. It's a glorified game of bullshit bingo. A lottery - and a deeply biased one (not that anything isn't biased but this really and truly is - very political).
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2 minutes ago, Anthrogal said:
Thanks. I did get emails and completed all annual reporting. It was the final achievement report I did not get in before the deadline because I did not realize it was outstanding. I didn’t receive any reminders about it from the U or SSHRC. I’ll stay hopeful for a day or two until I receive my letter. Thanks again! ?
Stay hopeful - and remember all the work you put into this you can use for something else - paper, panel presentations, maybe even another grant you could put in with your tenured mentors/colleagues!
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On 2/29/2020 at 1:59 PM, Anthrogal said:
Good luck everyone. I think I am automatically out of luck. I realized (literally yesterday when the letters went out) that I had never submitted my final report for my doctoral award which I believe automatically disqualifies me. I was so worried about defence, revisions, and submitting postdoc and employment applications that I totally forgot about it. You have 6 months, but my 6 months were up at the end of November. I'm feeling pretty devastated that I am going to lose out based on my own ineptitude rather than the quality of my application (although I may very well have been unsuccessful anyway). I hope letters come quickly for you all and that you have great success.
OK ... first off, your university admin - the folks who manage your scholarship and who are responsible for administering your funds are required to send you those scholarship report requests and nag you to get those in - and in fact, at my university you actually can't proceed with defense arrangements until all ancilary papaerwork is completed (including any outstanding scholarship reporting that they manage). I'm not sure how you got all the way to the defense process without them checking in on this stuff - sounds like they dropped the ball. They're pretty officious about at most universities - because, for one thing, THEY are out a lot of big time funding if they're not doing THEIR job to 'manage' grad students who don't have the same practices in place for 'reporting' as tenured faculty receiving big time grants. When SSHRC talks about reporting they're talking about actual grants - not scholarships. From what I gather from my colleagues who have been on SSHRC evaluation committees, stuff like scholarship reporting isn't less of an issue than: not especially enthusiastic letters of support, poor track record of publication, feasibility of the research and strong supporting rationale - and then there's the issue of SSHRC's own funding 'priority areas' which are of course always useful to peek at before proposing a project. Don't let the SSHRC-holes get you down - it's a terrible process that does all sorts of symbolic violence because they don't bother letting anybody know why they didn't win the pony ... keep your head up!
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I'm in the same boat - I'm right downtown (not GTA). If it helps to know there is somebody else who hasn't heard. I'll drop in here if I do hear. I'm not letting anybody know my 'score' etc but don't mind indicating that I received notification if it gives others in TO some peace of mind.