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Did anyone reacieve any notification from NSERC about award upgradation, e.g., PGS to CGS?

Successful Candidate! I will decline OGS, since I was awarded NSERC PGS this year. Good luck who are on the wait list.

Good point, not sure what is really happening!! Probably CGS people are busy in studies:)

Thanks for your suggestion, marmoor. I am actually considering such a move to a better school in my field.

Western

I understand it is not a good time, particularly this year. Good luck for all you guys!!

Just heard that I was awarded a PGS-D, little bit frustrating that it is not a CGS-D but I will take it.

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/FundingDecisions-DecisionsFinancement/ScholarshipsAndFellowships-ConcoursDeBourses/index_eng.asp Please follow this link, Tab-2011. 285 may be final standing after declined/all sorts of things.

Last year there were 291 CGS-Ds, it means almost ~7% cut, definitely it is gonna hurt some of us:((

Your stats are good. I am afraid I have to accept the same fate tomorrow. By the way, which dept. in engineering are you from, if you don't mind?

Thanks eliasg. I am going to send an email to my dept. then.

Thanks for the info. BTW, how do you know it?

What??! are they joking?

That's the only thing I am hoping for. But then again NSERC needs to send results to the department so that they can inform us, this is not happening either as of now.

well-said, tomj!