Sadgraddad

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 ! 
 

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 !