ctrillian23

I STRONGLY urge you to not take both. I actually know someone who did this and someone at the university ratted them out to the gov and he had to pay a portion of it back! This was 3 years ago so who knows with all the budget cuts whether they have the people power to look. Also, not to sound too judgemental, but you are really privileged to have received this money. There are many other studentts who don't have "great seasonal summer jobs." By not taking the money, you may be giving another student the opportunity to receive a scholarship.

I'm not sure what the last poster is talking about. The departments of the recipients of OGS are all notified at the same time, and I can guaranteed that they have not been notified. Has anyone received internal scholarships yet for next year? Usually departments wait for OGS results before making internal funding decisions so as to make sure that everyone gets a little bit of financial help. Ii would be against OGS regulations for any one school to be notified before all of them and I can absolutely assure you that my department has not been nominated. Last year there was a mistake in that certain students were notified that they were going to receive OGS before everyone else and that was a snafu only, not intentional. I'm guessing that anyone who has been "notified" by their department has merely been told that they have an excellent chance of getting it again. Although you shouldn't bank on it. The committee changes every year and each will bring a different bias to the table. I know several students whose marks were better the second time around who did not recieve it. If you have been notified sleepphyd, I am inclined to belief that there is a member of the committee at your institution with inside knowledge of this year's process, which implies poor form on the part of your department. At any rate, in no way am I trying to discredit you sleepyphd, I really hope you get it.

I was told that out of 3000 accepted applicants, 1100 recieved OGS.

I received this email 3 days ago: ogswebmaster@ontario.ca Feb 13 (3 days ago) to me Congratulations! Your complete and approved OGS Application Package for 2012-2013 has been included in the competition. A panel of 3 university professors will be adjudicating OGS applications and we expect that the results will be available early to mid April 2012. Please check back at that time.