aenzenh

That's true. I guess I'm too young to remember that universities, etc. would even mail acceptance letters to you

Isn't it ironic how the biggest Canadian funding agency for RESEARCH has not made any progress in their procedures?

I wonder why they don't just send out an email to all the applicants if they know they are delayed. It would save a lot of time as compared to answering every student individually.

Haha, not if you apply for PR in Quebec

I'm also surprised as to how many people in this thread are older students that have worked for a few years before doing a PhD. I will be almost 29 years old when I start this fall. Same for me. I'm an external applicant. I found a supervisor and have a research project but need to secure funding. So yeah, the wait is awful...

I'm in the computing sciences committee (subfield robotics) planning to start my PhD in September. I've been working in an industrial research job for the past 3 years and did a master's at McGill before. I have 3 first author publications from my master's (1 journal and 3 less competitive conferences) and 2 co-author journals from my work in industry. My grades in master's and undergrad were pretty good except for my exchange year where I really struggled with the language barrier and different class format. I've also been a course instructor for one semester. I guess a lot of my chances will depend on how the reviewers see my research proposal and whether they value my experience in the industry.

Thanks! Hope you too Even Canadian schools (e.g. McGill) adhere to the April 15 deadlines btw. Not sure if they can be extended but I'll try.

It's especially frustrating to everyone who's been out of school for a few years and for whom funding is a major part of the decision whether to start a PhD or not (like me). On top of that, the universities' offer of acceptance deadlines are usually on April 15 and many funding notifications for external scholarships come out later than that. Not very well coordinated if you ask me...

I assume you are talking about PGS-D/CGS-D, right? It's very strange why they would even publish a timeline if they are at least 2 weeks late anyway...

This page gives a pretty clear timeline for the notification of the CGS-D/PGS-D results: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/StudentDeadlines-EtudiantDatelimites_eng.asp If you take the external application deadline (Monday, October 19, 2020) and add 23 weeks, that's exactly today, Monday, March 29, 2021. I assume that the results for internal applicants are announced around the same time.