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    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015

    in The Bank

    Posted

    My connections have informed me that the SSHRC doctoral applications are being adjudicated now and over the coming weeks and then the rest of the time between adjudication and when we receive the results is purely administrative. 

     

    Not that this makes the wait any shorter! I just find every scrap of information that trickles down to me or is shared with me is worth knowing...whether it helps me cope with the waiting anxiety or not is another story altogether.

     

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

    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015

    in The Bank

    Posted

    So... How's everyone doing? I successfully managed to forget about sshrc for about 4 days.

     

    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  :unsure:

    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015

    in The Bank

    Posted

    It is to do with the US J-1 visa. If you get any governmental grants on a J-1 visa, you have to go back to your home country for two years. Tricky part in the OP's situation is that (s)he is already fully funded. So it is very difficult to say if SSHRC will trigger the two-year rule (my hunch is that it will not- it is not like a Fulbright! But US visa processes can be very confounding and arbitrary). But you can still get waivers. Here is a good post detailing the process for a waiver and if you need one (it depends on what it says on your visa). Hopefully, someone who has got a SSHRC on a J-1 visa will have something more useful to say than my post  :unsure:

     

    http://usainternship.com/how-to-waive-your-2-year-home-residency-requirement/

     

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

    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015

    in The Bank

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

     

    Also an external candidate (not even in a program yet) and was notified I have been moved on to the national competition. Congratulations to everyone and fingers crossed.

     

    Here's a question for all of the current students in the U.S. (which is where I'll be studying come this fall): if you are on a J-1 (scholar) visa, does receiving the SSHRC award mean that you are compelled to return to Canada upon completion of studies? If it makes a difference to your answer, SSHRC will not be a primary funding source for my PhD as I'm fully funded by the uni. I talked to the international student services people at the uni and the advisor insisted that if I get any money from my home country I would be compelled to go back but speaking with a couple of other students (Mexico and U.K.) it doesn't sound like that is their understanding, so I'm left very confused.

     

    I know that on F-1 it doesn't matter about where your funding comes from, but I'm bringing my spouse to the US too and he needs to be able to work so I have to get a J-1 visa but now I'm paranoid that if I take the SSHRC I will have to return and so my options once I go on the job market will be severely limited.

     

    Thanks for any insight.

     

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

    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015

    in The Bank

    Posted

    Safferz, I'm an external candidate from the US too, and I haven't received anything either. Let's look on the bright side, and just hope that our mail is late! :)

     

    Does anyone know if they send you a letter either way, or do they only send you a letter if you move to the national competition?

     

    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*

    SSRC 2014

    in The Bank

    Posted

     The final results come in late Spring, but we should hear about initial cuts sometime in February.  Also, what is SSHRC?  That "H" is throwing me off...

     

    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*

    SSRC 2014

    in The Bank

    Posted

    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.

    Fall 2014 Applicants

    in History

    Posted

    One more question: The instructions for UCLA's statement of purpose call for a double-spaced document with a two-page limit. I have tried shaving off as much as humanly possible, but am still exactly 3 lines into my third page. If I adjust the margins from the default (1") to something slightly smaller (0.9", a barely noticeable change), the document shrinks to two pages. I recognize that default margins are typically 1", but nothing on the UCLA website indicates a preference for margin size. If I go with the 0.9" margins, how big of a deal will it be? I honestly don't think I can shave off any more without losing something I consider exceptionally important, but I don't want to take this last resort if it means my chances of admission will take a hit. Alternatively, I could just go with 1" margins and go 3 lines over the limit. Would that be better?

     

    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.

    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015

    in The Bank

    Posted

    ps I accidentally clicked the down arrow when trying to hit "quote" on Michellle's post, I'm sorry! Is there a way to delete this??

     

    I voted her post up just to get it back to neutral  :P

     

    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.

    SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015

    in The Bank

    Posted

    My application is now in the mail. Which, given how many problems I've had with USPS since I moved to the States, I find terrifying. (All those original documents!)

     

    I'm currently a 2nd year in a humanities program in the US. This is my first time applying for a doctoral SSHRC. I did win an MA SSHRC a couple of years back, but ended up coming to the states and so declined it.

     

    I do have a couple things I'd like to double check with someone in order to appease my anxiety. First, we don't need to do anything with the online form we've filled out beyond verifying it, right? There's no "send" button that I'm missing? And second, our attachments are attached only in hardcopy, correct? In other words, we're not supposed to upload them to the online application? I'm paranoid that I've missed some silly little thing that will disqualify me, after those hours and hours of work.

     

    Okay... breathing!

     

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

    Fall 2014 Applicants

    in History

    Posted · Edited by Safferz

    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  :blink:

    Fall 2013 Applicants?

    in History

    Posted

    Note the above, Lafayette. History of American Civilization is the program you applied to, right?

     

    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.

    Fall 2013 Applicants?

    in History

    Posted · Edited by Safferz

    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).

    Fall 2013 Applicants?

    in History

    Posted

    Sorry this took a while to respond: from my history professor, at Harvard. To whit- there is a meeting with the deans this coming week at which point everything is officialized and approved.

     

    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.

     

    Is this for History or History of Am Civ?

     

    History.

    Fall 2013 Applicants?

    in History

    Posted

    Harvard decisions have definitely been finalized, but I'm not sure if official notifications have gone out yet. I have a friend who heard yesterday that she got in, but she's already in a Masters program here, so her adviser may have told her prior to the official announcement.

     

    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.

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