Sadgraddad

Hi Everyone. This is my second time applying at the doctoral level. My application was also forwarded to the national competition. I emailed my school and asked about my ranking at the institutional level. Apparently I was ranked 8th out of 60. Do you know how much this institutional ranking translates to the final outcome ? Im fairly sure that those ranked in the top 3 at large research universities like McGill are almost guaranteed to end up receiving the grant, but I havent seen much written about this on Gradcafe. Would some ranked 8th have a shot lol ? Im not sure how to read this information. Thanks in advance if you know anything.

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Never posted before. Thought I'd share my results. Rejected with a 15.8 committee 1. 3 Publications, 2 forthcoming at time of app. First time application second year PHD. A lot of this seems fairly arbitrary. I believe someone earlier in this thread was in the same committee as me with a lower score. Must have something to do with the number of grants available per institution ? That's my theory. Seems like certain demographic-diversity factors also play into the selection process. IE along the lines of gender, race, age, etc... Would be nice if SSHRC just distributed grants directly to institutions and they could sort out the process themselves, conducting only one internal review. Would likely save us all a lot of time. Cheers everyone. Wishing you all a happy year to come !