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I was talking about computer vision and machine learning. It is a very competitive research area. My application was submitted to civil engineering (committee 201) and rejected as well. Committee 201 is regarded as another competitive committee for various reasons. It might be helpful to reach out to NSERC to determine your ranking within that committee. If you are within the top 50%-60%, I would say you may still have a chance to get it.

You can find some examples in previous PGS-D topics from this forum; I can not recall which one it is, but you can Google it. To be honest, I do not think it is very helpful to look at the proposals and personal profiles of other successful applications; it does not help you improve your own. Here's why: 1. It is really up to your review committee members. What are their backgrounds? Do they have any knowledge of your study? If so, why is it impressive to them? If not, how can you ensure they understand what you are proposing? 2. It also depends on the profiles of your other competitors in the same committee. For instance, three first-author peer-reviewed articles in prestigious conferences or journals do not make you a strong candidate if you are in a hot research area, like CV/ML. However, if you are in an engineering field, one conference proceedings and one poster presentation can earn you a CGS-D. 3. There are many things that you cannot change, including your social activities, your prior scholarships, your GPA in undergraduate or graduate school, etc. Therefore, do not waste your time trying to improve your current proposal. If you want to try again later, publish papers, go to conferences, socialize more, and—above all—change the topics of your proposals and move to a different committee with less competition and more confidence. BTW, from 2025, all Tri-agency awards are combined as the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS), and the application will be open in the summer of 2025, which means there isn't much time for your next application. Do it now!

Which committee are you with? Hopefully it’s not committee 201. Probably you need to try with another committee.

Got confirmed with my institution’s graduate office that I didn’t get it. Good luck with the application in next year, I guess?

In the past few years, people were constantly trying to find out their email order, but no one could confirm. Emails were definitely sent out within one week. Occasionally, the turnaround time was as short as three days. Personally, I can only tell you that the sooner you get the email, the better your chances.

Sorry to hear that. I am still waiting for my email. Did you apply for CGS-D only, or with Vanier?

I agree with you. That being said, based on the experiences of past years, CGS-D and PGS-D results are rolling out together because they have the same ranking lists and committee members.

I highly doubt there are any differences this year. They have the exact same amount now.

I haven’t heard anything from either NSERC and my institution yet. I guess it means that I didn’t get it. So sad.

Yes! Based on their website. Looks like they finally have a firm date to release the results! But I assume the institutions will still know the results earlier.

Well, 30 more days to wait! Finger crossed!