secretmongoose

The timing of offers to alternates was my next question. I'll let you know if I hear anything else. I think winners have something like 6 weeks to make a decision.

After some pestering they did tell me my rank today. If they keep funds within committees, it would mean I am second in line...

I assume your letter, at the the end of the second paragraph, said: "SSHRC will contact you if additional funds become available." My understanding is that it means we are on a waitlist; however, based on the information they provide us in the notice of decision, it's impossible to know where we are. I tried contacting them to see if they would tell me my position and they refused. They did tell me something puzzling, though. They said that the "selection committees often recommend a pool of candidates to whom funding cannot be offered due to program success rates." What this suggests to me is that it might not be a simple numbers game, after all. If they are trying to meet certain metrics of distribution (across disciplines, across regions of Canada, across universities, across English and French languages, and between with attention to gender, visible minorities, and indigenous people.) I suspect that an application with a high enough score to be funded, might have been passed over if it didn't check enough of these boxes.

I assume your letter, at the the end of the second paragraph, said: "SSHRC will contact you if additional funds become available." My understanding is that it means we are on a waitlist; however, based on the information they provide us in the notice of decision, it's impossible to know where we are. I tried contacting them to see if they would tell me my position and they refused. They did tell me something puzzling, though. They said that the "selection committees often recommend a pool of candidates to whom funding cannot be offered due to program success rates." And they linked this page: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/stats-statistiques/index-eng.aspx What this suggests to me is that it might not be a simple numbers game, after all. If they are trying to meet certain metrics of distribution (across disciplines, across regions of Canada, across universities, across English and French languages, and between with attention to gender, visible minorities, and indigenous people.) I suspect that an application with a high enough score to be funded, might have been passed over if it didn't check enough of these boxes.

I'm trying to put a chart together for us on the "waitlist," so that we can gauge what our position on the list might be. Are there any other communities sharing these results? I'm having a hard time getting enough data.

Committee 2B (Score of the last application recommended for funding: 15.07) I was Recommended for Funding but it was, unfortunately, Not Offered. My score was 15.58/18 , which I thought was pretty darn high to be passed over. Oh well.