thepoorstockinger

I wonder how many of those are Canadian. MAs and MScs tend to be all at least partially funded in Canada, particularly through government grants. Between my school and the federal government I am receiving around $29k in funding for the first year of my MA ($10k of which is for work as a TA). At the very least you often get TAships as a masters student in Canada. (obviously there are exceptions to this)

My partner and I both got confirmation that we got SSHRCs (MAs). It's a pretty huge relief.

Congrats! Now we will all fan out and harass the low-level administrators in our departments and faculties of graduate studies.

Female lawyers are often in equally tough positions when it comes having children - it's hard to climb the ranks in a firm if you take a year off, and when you get back the work load won't get any easier. Unfortunately, I think that this is true in most professions where there is competition for advancement.

What I find remarkable is the number of people who signed up for the board just to ask questions in this thread. It's like this message board thread is the main source of information on CGS awards... which probably just shows the absolute and total failure to communicate by SSHRC.

No. I (and no one I know) didn't send them a copy of my winter 2009 transcripts, tell my university to send them a copy, or give them permission to request a copy of my transcripts. SSHRC has absolutely no way of knowing our winter 2009 grades.

Are you sure history is where you want to be doing this? Most people who deal with topics like yours seem to be in classics or religious studies. Even if you decide to pursue this in a history department I would really suggest applying to places with strong departments in either Classics or religious studies and a structure which allows you to work with those folks.

What country(ies?) are you a citizen of? Does your home country offer scholarships you can carry outside of the country?

They forward applications waaaaay before they make decisions about who to admit into the program. They may have thought at the time of OGS evaluation in the fall that you'd be offered a spot, but come February (or at UofT I guess it was probably late March) when they had to make decisions on offers they had more applicants or less spaces than they'd anticipated. It's an unfortunate circumstance, but I am sure that at the time of OGS nominations they either assumed you'd be offered a spot at UofT or assumed you'd applied elsewhere.

No. Table 1 is definitely the number awarded to students who applied through that school. Table 2 is definitely the number awarded to students who indicated that they planned on attending that school. Table 1 includes many schools with no graduate programs, table 2 includes only schools with graduate programs.

I also assume that this is a mistake since there isn't actually a link for it anywhere, just fishing for URLs produces the excel file. I wouldn't be shocked if it was taken down soon.

MA or PhD? What do you mean by cut rate? Each school receives a set quota - a set number of applications which they can forward to SSHRC. (there is one quota for MA and one for PhD). The MA scholarships have a very high success rate once forwarded (there's some debate on here about how high it is, but I think everyone agrees that it is at least 90%). The PhD scholarships have a lower success rate once forwarded. (The numbers are somewhere in this thread, but I don't know where) SSHRC really need to just issue a very clear one page explanation on how exactly this stuff works.

Did you ask about the MA or the PhD awards? This is just getting out of hand.

Math isn't really your strong suit is it? 80% of 22 is not 20. It's 17.6. 80% of 20 is 16. So if we accept your numbers then you're looking at an average of about 17 per program or 170 per year (which I still think there's more attrition). But not all of them will pursue teaching jobs at American universities - some will pursue law school, some will work in government, some will go for museum jobs, some will go teach in other countries, some will teach at elite private high schools, some will some will abandon the academy for something totally unrelated to their degree. Does having a PhD from a top ten program help you get a job later? Of course it does. But it's just one of several things like publications (and the quality of said publications), connections you establish, fit with the department you're applying to, ability to interview well, yadda yadda yadda.

20 PhDs graduating per year from a program is a crazy, crazy high estimate. Most top schools in good years seem to aim for an entrance cohort of around 15 PhD students (obviously there is some variation here) and once you deal with the high level of attrition in grad school I can't imagine 200 top ten PhDs per year are graduating.

I am doing a history MA next year, so who knows - I may make the switch to historical geography for the PhD.

As was mentioned above I assume they're including MIT's History and Anthropology of Science and Technology (or whatever the full name is) program in the rankings. In which case - yes, I have read several books from folks who got their PhD there. (That said, I think rankings are silly)

If they invited people who did not receive the award then it is possibly the biggest ass-hole move ever.

The grad secretary at my undergrad department said that SSHRC is having computer problems which are delaying the announcement of awards. Who knows how accurate this is. I would like to suggest that from now on, whenever someone from this message board contacts SSHRC to ask for an update they introduce themselves as "a representative from The Grad Cafe" just to confuse and infuriate the people answering the phone.

If you got forwarded by your school for the Vanier don't you automatically get a CGS? Best of luck with it!

It depends entirely on the school and the fellowship.

Why Yale?

So you can lurk your future grad students/faculty members/random people who attend your future school.

Same with me.