chemistrysucks

Right there with you friend, you have a better CV than me and I expected at least a PGS-D but got nothing. All depends on how nice the reviewers are and whether your research resonates with them I suppose.

Well I'm kind of surprised I didn't get anything, although from the wording of the letter and comments in this thread I guess I'm waitlisted. I have 8 publications (2 first-author and 3 second-author), 3 oral conference presentations, an oral presentation award at CCCE and 2 other poster presentations. Lots of community involvement in student groups and university committees and although no previous NSERCs I have a decent amount of internal awards (total ~55k over my grad studies). I had two previous CGS-D winners and a few profs look over my proposal and application package so I don't think it was terrible. My grad level GPA is 4.4 but my undergrad is only 3.5, I can't imagine that would be affecting my results very much? How much info do we get when we actually see our scores, do they break down how we scored on each category? I know the process is subjective and everyone who even got to the national level is highly competitive so I shouldn't be too disappointed but I expected at least a PGS-D. On paper my application seems better than my friend from my department who got a CGS-D this year. I'm not even sure why I'm typing this, just ranting at this point. I have an internal award with almost equal value to the PGS-D until January 2023 so it wouldn't have even changed much for me. Probably done with academia at this point, going to sell my soul to big pharma and go to the USA for $$$. Congrats to everyone who got one! Committee 179 in chemistry since I see people posting that.

lmao just had an asthma attack from the nerves, I think I'm going to stop refreshing for a few hours and check later tonight. Anyone think I can get my salbutamol reimbursed from NSERC?

Some dude at NSERC HQ just went home for the day thinking "man I know I forgot to do something..."