Konstantin
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My university has instituted a new scholarship payment process that issues lump-sum payments three times a year (once in Fall, Winter, and Summer terms). However, the payment dates are quite inconvenient, with the first one taking place on October 1st (and like you, Nerd_For_Life, my tuition will be deducted from the combination of internal/external scholarship funding).
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One thing I would add to others' suggestions is that just because you have so many publications and presentations, you do not have to include them all. Since you have limited space for research contributions, you have to be strategic about it. I applied for a SSHRC last year and this is what I would do:
1) Prioritize peer-reviewed publications, because they count the most.
2) Some non-peer reviewed publications may actually be relevant in demonstrating your ability to carry out your Program of Study, so definitely include them as well.
3) Many presentation, such as those given at academic conferences, are peer reviewed and should be included.
4) I would include poster presentations only if you have extra space and they are relevant.
5) As TakeruK mentioned, reduce spacing between lines to as little as .5 lines or less. You don't have to use indentation. But make sure that you give enough information for each publication in order for reviewers to locate them easily (I used ASA or APA, don't really remember, and excluded DOI numbers, etc). Make sure that your margins at 3/4" and you're using 12 point font. Essentially this limits you to some free play with spacing/indentation/publication attributes.
Good luck!
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Congrats lighthouse. Yeah this thread is definitely winding down! Sending positive thoughts to those still on the waitlist.
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Hi leapingfrog: I think you will be eligible to hold the award, since you are not technically simultaneously registering in another degree program, but completing one before starting the other (and it's ok to have some overlap). I think that in the first condition SSHRC really means to say that you can't be registered in two Ph.D. or 2 M.A. programs at the same time. I know plenty of people who are in your position -- completing their M.A.s in August/early September, beginnign their doctorates and holding SSHRCs.
That's my understanding, hope it helps!
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anyone know when they're going to post the results? Last year it was May 31 ...
I was wondering the same thing. I know that in 2011 and 2012 they were posted in July.
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Congrats Zaftig and oxforddphil! The wait is finally over.
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Thanks for the encouraging words, guys!
Stupid question: How do we know what committee / category we're in? Does it say on the letter, or is this something we indicated on the application?
I don't want to pin too many hopes on the wait list, but I'm just curious to know where I am in relation to other people. Going by the score alone, it seems like mine is very close to the scores of some successful applicants. But, it sounds like that may not be a comparable figure.
Yeah, that's something that we indicated in our applications, which was basically to select a committee to evaluate our applications. SSHRC explains it here:
It's kind of hard to say what the cut-off for the waitlist is, since scores are committee-specific, but I'm guessing it could be somewhere between 11 and 12? Looks like most people who received a score of 12 and up were successful. I'm sure Vanier/Trudeau applicants will be declining their SSHRC, so there's hope!
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Congrats Macavity, KB99, and ssimonin! Well done.
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I think you can only list an award on your CV if you have successfully received it and then declined it, for whatever reason. Unfunded basically means you were not successful: waitlisted or "recommended but not funded," but could potentially be granted an award if someone declines theirs. Here is what SSHRC website says about this:
"This means that your application was ranked highly enough for your name to be placed on a list of candidates recommended for an award in the event that additional funds become available, but that you have not received an award. In the event that a Doctoral Award is declined, SSHRC will use the waiting list / recommended but not funded list to replace the original recipient with an alternate. These lists are committee-specific. Should an award become available, SSHRC will contact the next eligible alternate candidate by email."
There are other FAQs on SSHRC's website at http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/apply-demande/faqs-questions_frequentes/doctoral_awards-bourses_de_doctorat-eng.aspx
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Hang in there aselfmadewinter and Carthage32! Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping your turn will come soon enough! You might think about emailing SSHRC and asking how many waitlisted applicants were upgraded to 'successful' last year, just to have an idea about the odds, since I know they won't tell you your rank on the waitlist.
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If you've won a 4-year fellowship, will they let you know if you're on the waitlist to receive a CGS, or do they just surprise you with an e-mail when the waiting list starts to move?
They'll surprise you with an email, since there's no official waitlist for the CGS. When someone who was awarded the CGS downgrades to a fellowship, SSHRC makes that money available to fellowship winners who are eligible to hold the CGS. I don't recall many cases where this happened, but I've seen a few of these in the past few years on this forum.
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Congrats mistralesque and Safferz! Good job, guys! Bravo.
It will be a tough few hours Carthage32 before you can open that letter! Hang in there.
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Congrats Macavity! Well-deserved. Hopefully the official letter will arrive promptly.
Sorry to hear that Diakonos! Whether you decide to appeal or reapply, best of luck!
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Random application question out of curiosity: for those who have 6+ various scholarships, did you just enter your best six and keep it at that, or fit the rest somewhere else on the application?
I included the most competitive of the scholarships I'd won to date, which were MA SSHRC, OGS, and several others I had to apply or be nominated for. I left out the bursaries and travel grants. I didn't even mention them elsewhere on the application.
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I just received my letter today. I was awarded a category B for 2 years with a score of 12.5. After many attempts at a Tri-Council grant, which all resulted in rejection, I am super excited and relieved that I finally succeeded! Congrats to everyone else who received a SSHRC, sorry to everyone who did not, and best of luck to those who can apply again next year.
Congrats rferg! Patience and perseverance seem to the the key elements to SSRHC success!
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Well. I'm just outside of the GTA and mail just came -- no letter yet. Anyone else in Ontario still waiting?
I think that's perfectly normal. I'm in Ottawa and I received my letter a day later than someone else who also lives in Ottawa. You, most likely, will have yours in your mailbox tomorrow.
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Until we receive our letters, we don't know a lot of that information. When I lost the last two years, the letter listed my score, number of applicants, number of winners, etc.
So far, all I have is one email from the graduate awards office telling me that I won. The email lists no other information, and the person who sent it said all the details would be in the SSHRC letter.
Also, for those curious, the email from my school does not state to keep the information secret. I gather that my department knew at the same time that I knew, as they were cc'ed in the email.
If the email had said to keep quiet I would have.
There's a provision in the official letter asking the applicants not to disclose the information until the "formal public announcement," whatever that could mean (I don't recall that SSHRC ever made a public announcement that disclosed the applicants' scores anyway). Some applicants who use aliases on this forum, which guarantee anonymity, posted details of their applications. I'll keep my score in confidence for now, but I think I'm allowed to say that there were 1947 applications, and 1010 of those received awards.
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Thanks. On another note, are they still wait listing applications?
I believe so -- someone posted earlier that they were waitlisted, though we don't know what the score was!
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I like your style.
Fingers crossed. Keep us posted!
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Sorry crimsoc! I'd still wait for the official letter before making any conclusions, since there's always a chance of human error! Hang in there!
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Right, I meant university quotas during the final competition, which is what theoryandpractice seems to be asking about. I assumed it doesn't matter once applications reach the national competition.
My bad -- misinterpreted the question! I don't believe there are university quotas for awards. If they forward X number of applicants, X number of applicants can potentially receive the award
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Thanks for all the support and info re wait listing everyone! Perhaps the inconsistency in awards winning scores is due to the award allocation per university? So if one university had a competitive year a 10.5 may not have made the cut, but at another, less competitive institution a lower score could have been successful?
As I understand them, those scores are for the national competition only, and not for individual universities.
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There's an award allocation per university for the doctoral SSHRC? I've never heard this.
Yes, most Canadian universities have quotas of how many applications they can forward to the national competition. My institution forwarded 63 out of (I believe) 180.
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2014-2015
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For those interested in reviewing SSHRC competition results, they have just been posted on SSHRC website:
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/recipients-recipiendaires/index-eng.aspx