dramanda

I think just for the sake of record keeping. This way, you can figure out what your odds are of getting the award before you know if you're List A or not.

Hm...ok, I agree with you. The "84" isn't clear....could be how many people accepted SSHRC. I may have just misread the data and assumed that 84 was the number of people who received SSHRC. Either way, my info is from Peter Grav as well, so if you heard it straight from the horse's mouth, I can't argue

As far as I know, this is not true. I'm not trying to be a downer, but just passing along the information I was provided with by the UofT SSHRC session. 89 masters level SSHRC proposals were forwarded by UofT to SSHRC last year 84 of them got it That's just under a 95% success rate Of course, that's still awesome and I'd kill for the success rate to be the same in the doctoral competition. BUT, I think people should know that it's not 100%. I highly doubt that incomplete applications got through 2 levels of assessment at UofT, so the most likely scenario is that there are just a handful of applications at the masters level that are not funded.

It doesn't matter at all.

http://www.sshrc.ca/site/winning-recher ... s_2008.xls Look at tab 1, which divides the applicants by university AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION. There's a column with "success rate"....this is the number of people who got SSHRC doctoral from the A-list. There isn't a "success rate" column for masters SSHRC, so I can only extrapolate from the numbers I got from UofT.

For masters level, it is NOT 100%, but very close. I only have access to the University of Toronto stats from a SSHRC writing session. About 90-95% of forwarded applicants get the award at the masters level in any given year from my university. It might vary a bit by institution (especially those schools that only forward 5 applications...small sample size). York is large, so I assume their success rate is similar to Toronto.

"last week of August" = Freudian slip?

Are you applying for master's or doctoral level SSHRC?

Has anyone else tried to call SSHRC recently? It lets me listen to the messages re: doc fellowships, and after hitting '0' to speak with someone (which is an option after listening to their long spiel), I get automatically disconnected.

Every time I refresh this page and see no new posts, I go a little crazier. Save my sanity, SSHRC!

I assume this means "yes" on FQRSC? Congrats!

From: http://osap.gov.on.ca/eng/Not_Secure/Pl ... Conditions "You cannot hold a scholarship from SSHRC, NSERC, or the CIHR, or an Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST) at the same time as an OGS."

Looks like this might be the week. Here's hoping the lot of you are correct in your predictions!

I understand that you're probably pointing to a larger problem, but in your specific case (it says you're in psychology), couldn't you "sell" your research as more on the science side of psychology and apply to NSERC after your shot at a CGS runs out with SSHRC? Psych is one of the few disciplines where you could sell it to either SSHRC, NSERC or CIHR, depending on which would be most willing to fund and how you frame your question.

Congratulations to all! Gotta love that government money!

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Definitely not.

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (different from SSHRC): http://osap.gov.on.ca/eng/Not_Secure/Pl ... _12345.htm

For what it's worth, I was in a similar situation. I took the psych GRE (and did well, that's key of course) and submitted it to all schools (even those that didn't require or even recommend it). I think it was able to show that although my undergrad wasn't specifically in psych, I had the general background knowledge. Two faculty members commented on this during interviews.

That's how it's worked for the past few years.

Does anyone know why SSHRC doesn't release results before April 15? Is it just that they can't get their act together in time, or is there some conscious effort on their part for SSHRC fellowships not to enter into the decision-making process for those of us selecting between schools? I can't really think of a reason for this (except perhaps losing Canadian students to US institutions). Any ideas?

I'll be at Berkeley for Educational Psychology! So excited!

I can't believe I missed it when you pulled the trigger. Congrats and welcome to the UC family! GOOOOO CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!!

Haha! I find comfort in your math. Mine was due in the first week of October though!

Seems that this varies by university then? I'm hearing a lot of different opinions on who hears first throughout this thread. Best of luck to all! Be sure to interrupt your personal celebrations (or pity party...) to post on here ASAP when you find out!