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Sorry to hear that, Carthage Hopefully you'll get some good news from SSHRC next month!

Interesting, thanks for letting us know. That's sooner than I thought.

Heh, I actually checked the thread yesterday and wondered if I should bump it back up to the first page. I'm trying to stay busy preparing for my comprehensive exams next month and thinking about my summer research project instead of dwelling on SSHRC related thoughts, but it's tough! It's not even anxiety about getting the final results for me, I've been fantasizing about all the things winning a SSHRC would enable me to do next year. I can't remember ever wanting something this badly

Oh! That's really interesting, I had no idea.

I have never heard of SSHRC compelling recipients to return to Canada. What?

Just got my letter! Forwarded to the national competition Mine is also dated February 11th.

OH WAIT. No mail today, I always forget about American holidays

I see we're also both in Mass, so I hope you're right I kinda wish I never checked this thread because now I'll be anxious about checking my mail each day lol. It's still a few hours until the mail lady delivers today's mail *dies*

Congrats, oxforddphil. But yikes... I haven't received any word and I'm not too far away in the US, not feeling so good about that :/

I believe Harvard sent out acceptances today. A prospective student who had been in touch with me during the process was notified today.

Thanks Konstantin

Does anyone know the timeline for applicants who applied directly to SSHRC back in November? Are we supposed to hear anything before the final committees decide our fates in April (May?)?

Ahhhh, I wasn't paying attention and read this as SSHRC -- the Canadian one, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (of Canada), not the Social Science Research Council. Disregard... *slinks out of thread*

I'm a little confused about the timeline since I go to an American university and applied directly to SSHRC back in November. What are the results that arrive in the next month? I assumed I wouldn't hear anything until the final results sometime in April or May.

Just keep editing it down until you get to two pages, sorry. Changing font or margin size is never a good idea, especially when the department prints out a stack of SOPs and it looks obvious to anyone who sees yours. If everyone else can whittle their statement down to two pages, so can you. The best SOPs are cogent and concise.

I just got my confirmation this morning!

I voted her post up just to get it back to neutral Anyone else still waiting for the confirmation of receipt from SSHRC? I can see from the tracking number that it reached their office last week, so I'm not too concerned.

Yes, unless I did it wrong as well Off to USPS to mail my application off now! I think I will pay for tracking lol.

Popping in to say hello and how nice it is to see a lot of familiar names in this thread I benefited quite a bit from the sage advice of current grad students when I applied during the fall 2012 cycle, and I tried to pay it forward by participating as much as I could in last year's thread. I'll be around once again... I just can't believe it's the fall 2014 cycle already

I'm a second year PhD student in the States, and will be mailing off my application directly to SSHRC tomorrow. I'm not sure what to expect as this is my first SSHRC application, but I think I put together the best application I could have and I don't think I've ever put more effort into two pages in my life Best of luck, everyone!

I suspect those decisions have been sent out as well, since I remember visiting a school in late February last year and a prospective student there was trying to choose between that history department and Harvard's History of Am Civ. But of course I don't know about their admissions process this cycle, or whether they have a waitlist for their program.

No, but I don't believe there's a waitlist. It seems they accept 50% more students and expect an incoming cohort of 15 or so.

FYI -- Harvard's DGS sent out the list of admitted students and details on the visiting days (March 13-14) to current graduate students this morning. There were 22 students admitted to the History PhD program this year, and two to the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies PhD (I have no information on History of American Civilization, East Asian Languages and Literatures, or the African and African American Studies PhD programs).

Considering that several students have already been notified (informally) by their POIs, and my knowledge that many profs already know who their admitted students are, it sounds like the deans are more of a rubber stamp for decisions already made by departments I'm sure the email from the graduate coordinator will follow soon. I should also add that these informal emails are POIs who have jumped the gun -- I certainly didn't know anything until receiving the mass email from the graduate coordinator with details on the visiting days. If you haven't heard anything from Harvard yet, that doesn't mean anything right now. History.

Yup, which is why I asked where telkanuru got his/her information. Some of the grad students in our department have known about their advisors' admits for two weeks now. But like pudewen, what I don't know is whether or not the mass email from the graduate coordinator has gone out yet. If it hasn't already (I think the posts on the results board so far suggests only informal contact from POIs), I'd imagine the email will be sent out soon since visiting days are usually in early March.