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Thank you so much for sharing your idea. About the references, they are the same references for my PGSD application and they have written a very strong and supporting reference letter about me. The problem is not the reference letter. What else can be the reason? Is it possible that the committee has thought my application should be submitted to another committee? Is it possible that a human error is a reason?! If I was ranked for example 15 out of 47, or even 30 out of 47 I could say ok others have been better, but it is not easy to accept that an application that has been improved and well-progressed version of a PSG D application that has won NSERC 3 years ago has been wors than 95% of all applications!! I know that usually about 20% of applications are submitted only as a shot in the dark trying the chance and they are not well-prepared and even completed. Does it mean that my application with 2 journals and 4 conferences and two great reference letters and and GPA of A+ has been even worse than those applications?! I doubt!

I would like to ask a question about Committee 198, I appreciate it if you can share any knowledge about this. I got the details of the results of PDF, which are not clear to me. It shows that out of 47 applications my rank is 45!! Two things are weird: 1) Across Canada, only 47 applications have been submitted in the computer science field to NSERC?! Does it look normal to you?! 2) In 2016, in the second year of my Ph.D. I applied for NSERC post-graduate scholarship while I had one published journal paper and one submitted. That time I won the Doctoral (CGS D) award, which is offered to the top-ranked applicants; (35k per year for two years). Now I am in the last semester of my Ph.D. During these years I published two Journal papers both of which have the highest number of citations among 54 papers that my supervisor has published during these years. Also, I published 4 more conference papers in the most prestigious conferences of my field with an 18% acceptance rate. I also have been a co-reviewer and reviewer of several conferences. Now, while I have done a great job after winning the Doctoral (CGS D) award, does it make sense that my application is ranked as worse than 95% of other applications in committee 198! Does it make sense? Do these numbers have other meaning that I am not aware of? Is it possible that there is a human error?! Is it possible that I have submitted to a wrong committee?