sugarcoatedsour
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unsuccessful... womp. Is there a waiting list for OGS?
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Any news today?
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You got 18/30 and you're in political science? I got 18/30 and got rejected. Womp womp.
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Rejected in Victoria...18/30... womp womp.
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Cool! Here's hopin'.... This is a terrible experience. Lolz.
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Easy Tiger, has your mail already come by today? I'm further west so I'll stop stalking the mailbox if that's the case...
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Anyone know if the results have been released on the SSHRC secure website? They weren't as of yesterday, and my POI told me they were expected today.
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Can you guys give your location and possibly your stats? That way I will know when to expect mail on the west coast.
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Oh fuck.
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Aimless....speculation. Wait for your letter. Try to relax.
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Having an MA SSHRC helps, there is no doubt about that. It's hardly the case that it would make or break you, though.
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My scholarship officer informed of this: "I've checked the SSHRC secure site for university Scholarship Liaison Officers and they are no results listed there. A SSHRC Rep informed us a couple weeks ago that the Doctoral results will likely not be released until the end of April...and the Master's results will not be confirmed until early May."
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bueller? anyone?
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Hi there, Your school should tell you where you are on the list (contact your Grad Studies/or Grad Fac, they told me in February when I found out I was an alternate, but I imagine it is different from school to school - my school sent 8 alternate candidates) because at the MA level it's 'pro forma', i.e. the ranking/results at the University level (not department level, though) stay the same at SSHRC, unless there is some glaring error with your application which the University failed to notice. So, people who are sent to SSHRC are almost guaranteed to win a SSHRC (not guarantee for alternates, of course) because the federal competition is pro forma, basically a rubber stamp. Whereas at the PhD level, you have no guarantee you will win anything - in fact, it's about 50/50 if your application was sent to the federal level. In terms of accepting OGS and then receiving a SSHRC at some later point, I really don't know how that works. I think I've come across something similar on one of these threads. It's a total guess, but I think you might be eligible for a few months of SSHRC. If your OGS is worth $15,000 for example, you might be eligible for another $2500 or something (making it $17,500) but again, this is all conjecture. But I am almost guarantee someone else has been in this situation before, so look around gradcafe or ask your financial aid/awards office - I'm sure they've dealt with that situation. For direct to SSHRC applicants, I have no idea. Did they tell you you're on a waitlist? If so, where? I have no idea what happens with those applicants because my history with SSHRC is all through an intermediary institution. Hope that helps. Good luck. Don't give up but don't get your hopes up. Just move on and perhaps a pleasant surprise awaits! And don't let the outcome dictate your academic/self-worth... it's a total crapshoot. Lots of qualified people get them, lots of mediocre students do. It depends on the level of competition at your institution that year, in your discipline, etc. etc. etc.
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Hey there. I was waitlisted as SSHRC alternate (#1 alternate, mind you) and I received a Master's SSHRC in early August last year (after an early May announcement.) So there is definitely hope - especially if you're at the top of the list. Where are you on the list? I know several people who were waitlisted for the MA SSHRC and eventually received one (sometimes even in January of the next year). The retroactive payment was nice - 5 months of SSHRC in one cheque, plus my school's top up, and September's payment. I felt rich. . .briefly. I have no idea what your chances are if you're further down, but I imagine if you're in the top 3 your chances are decent, but no guarantee of course. Plenty of competitive people decide to go to law school, an American university, decide to wait a year (you can't defer) or bail on the idea of grad school altogether... so there's hope! My suggestion is (and this is what I did) is to convince yourself you're not going to win it regardless...and so if it happens it's a pleasant surprise. Otherwise you'll just check your email every day for six months. Not healthy, trust me.
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Just received this email after an inquiry... "Good afternoon, Thank you for your email. The Doctoral Awards competition is still in progress. The results of the competition will be mail during the month of April 2012. If your mailing address has changed, please inform us as soon as possible so that we may keep your file up to date." So, at least it will be in April and not May by the sounds of it.
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Agreed. Almost a couple weeks in their entirety were dedicated to my SSHRC Master's program of study (for which I was successful) and this included circulating it to friends, peers, a grantscrafter, my supervisor and a couple of other profs. Nearly a month straight was spent on my Doctoral SSHRC, so we'll have to see whether or not the time and effort pays off. As the poster above mentioned, however, if you take the amount of time spent on a SSHRC app in relation to the amount of money you receive, you're making a wicked hourly wage (an hourly wage you will likely never see again for the duration of your academic career). While the actual details of the deliberation process are pretty hush hush, given the disparate range of applications receiving SSHRC Doctoral awards - some people with publications, conferences, while others have none - it makes you think that a good program of study can make all the difference. And again, to repeat what the comments above, it provides an opportunity through which your research interests can be distilled into a coherent, accessible format.
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I'm not sure, but I think Compoe might be referring to this Q&A from the Globe about the Federal Budget. Sort of ambiguous, I'm assuming some of the 'redistribution' hit SSHRC but who knows... doesn't look too ominous either way. "Answer from post-secondary education reporter James Bradshaw: All three granting councils were asked to find “savings,” so they did cut programs. However, every penny was then reinvested in different programs within the granting councils. There are a number of other investments in research, such as $60-million to Genome Canada, $17-million for isotope research, and another $500-million over five years for research infrastructure through the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The bottom line is the research community suffered no cuts really and most of those redistribution was focused on industry- or business-related research."
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Waiting it out: Canadian Political Science Programs Fall 2012
sugarcoatedsour replied to icarus99's topic in Waiting it Out
UVic's program is way better anyways... well, depending on your politics. -
Waiting it out: Canadian Political Science Programs Fall 2012
sugarcoatedsour replied to icarus99's topic in Waiting it Out
Good idea. I attend UVic and I know decisions were made a while ago. . . like mid February. But you could be on a second round of admits. Fingers crossed. -
Waiting it out: Canadian Political Science Programs Fall 2012
sugarcoatedsour replied to icarus99's topic in Waiting it Out
If you're really interested in finding out, I would just call them or send the grad secretary an email. Things like mystatus and myfile are notorious for being out-of-sync with the actual process, e.g. even if your app is admitted or rejected it will come up as "under review." -
Waiting it out: Canadian Political Science Programs Fall 2012
sugarcoatedsour replied to icarus99's topic in Waiting it Out
Well we can all agree on this. It's over. -
Waiting it out: Canadian Political Science Programs Fall 2012
sugarcoatedsour replied to icarus99's topic in Waiting it Out
'As Fukuyama and others have more or less laid out, virtually all mainstream political debate is now over policy and not principle. That's a good thing.' whatttttt!? Rawls...now Fukuyama? Policy over principle? Always and in all instances? How and when?
