Konstantin
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Hi All,
I know a few people that have received e-mails from SSHRC today saying that they have either been "Accepted" or "Recommended but not Funded" (waitlisted).
Hope that helps.....
Are you sure the email were sent to doctoral applicants? I know that waitlisted Master's applicants have been receiving emails for the last few days from SSHRC offering them an award...
EDIT: Now I see that you're an NSERC Master's applicant (and the process is completely different from SSHRC Doctoral awards).
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Konstantin, did those announcements say that they were mailed the day of the tweet? Someone mentioned they sometimes tweet after the fact. I want to believe they mailed them out before the long weekend lol
No, the tweets just say that "Doctoral results have now been mailed." The long weekend in Canada has already passed, so this week has to be the week.
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So I searched SSHRC's Twitter feed and here is what I found: SSHRC tweeted the announcement that Doctoral results have been mailed out:
at 10:58am on Thursday April 21, 2011;
at 10:02am on Friday, April 27, 2012; and
at 12:43pm on Friday, April 26, 2013.
This means that SSHRC likes to release the results late in the week. Maybe this year will be different?
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So is there a general consensus about asking our department administrators about results (when SSHRC announces they have been mailed)?
Do all have access to the information, but only some willing to disclose? Is it hit or miss?
Anything to pass the time...
None of the staff in my dept. claim to know the competition results, including grad administrator, chair of grad studies, and ex-chair of grad studies! In fact they keep asking me if I received any news from SSHRC! haha. I probably won't ask them anymore, just going to wait for the letter.
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It's totally possible they already sent them out and will announce afterword ;-)
Yeah, they've certainly done that in the past! Let's hope they're more vigilant with the announcement this time
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I'm hoping they mail the letters tomorrow so that we can receive our letters by Friday. I'll be monitoring their twitter feed all day tomorrow.
I'll be checking my mailbox a few times a day starting tomorrow!
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Hopefully the announcement will posted on Twitter! Let's keep our eyes peeled
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Am I just blind, or did SSHRC delete this tweet?
It no longer shows up in SSHRC Twitter feed, but you can find it directly at the source: https://twitter.com/Stellar_StellaD
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Aren't things moving faster on SSHRC's end this year, though? I'm a direct applicant, and I believe we received our letters notifying us that our applications were A-listed earlier than previous years. Hopefully letters will be mailed out early again for final results.
It's already the 16th and if the results aren't mailed out tomorrow, then they won't be mailed until next Tuesday, April 22nd, meaning that they will be released almost roughly at the same time as last year and the year before: end of April.
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Putting on my logic and reasoning course hat here. Technically, only two students from any tri-council agencies have to have been notified for the statement to be true. But yeah, the phrasing is misleading, especially to us poor souls who will reach at anything that suggests results.
Yeah I wouldn't read too much into the announcement: it also says that all Tri-Council applicants will hear by regular mail, whereas CIHR candidates found out online.
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DO IT! I don't have Twitter
I'd be surprised if you received a response that's different from the one SSHRC replies to emails with.
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Sooooooooooo. I received an email from my university today containing an announcement that "PhD students who applied for a Tri-Council award have been notified by mail if they have won an award."
Considering that SSHRC's Twitter account has been silent about the competition results, maybe the announcement refers to CIHR and NSERC competiitons only? What should we make of this?
Full text of the media release:
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Well. I heard back again from the grad chair. He notes there is a 'rumour' that the awards will now be released at the end of the month. I dont know what the hell to believe anymore.
Hasn't SSHRC been saying all along that it would be the end of April?
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Hey how do you guys insert GIFs into your posts?
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I'm sticking to the "end of April," but of course aiming for an earlier date!
Edit: crimsoc, it will definitely be my regular mail. From SSHRC website: "Competition results are not provided by telephone or email."
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I'm curious about what prompted SSHRC to make such an announcement.
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Looks like we will have to wait until the end of April to learn the results, after all. Here is the reply I received after I emailed SSHRC asking about the competition results:
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"Thank you for your email.
The Doctoral Awards competition is still in progress. The results of the competition will be mailed out around the end of April 2014.
If your mailing address has changed, please inform us as soon as possible so that we may keep your file up to date."
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This is roughly the same timeline as my university posted on its website, meaning some of us won't find out until early May.
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I'm more nervous about this than about PhD applications... I feel like my program proposals were actually stronger than my SSHRC proposal, if only because they came later. I got into all my schools, but now I wonder about this.
I seem to recall hearing from a grad director that the process would be different in future years—something more akin to the new master's CGS method of determining winners. Anyone else hear anything like this? (Not that it will matter for us, because we will all win CGS doctorals, of course.)
I heaven't heard anything about universities determining Doctoral SSHRC/CGS winners at the institutional level in the future. But, according to SSHRC, doctoral applicants will likely be required to use the Research Portal and CCV to apply and to receive results, which is identical to how MA SSHRC applications are submitted:
According to SSHRC this can happen as early as the next application cycle (Nov 2014).
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Not at all, I just knew this was too good to be true, so I had to do some googling
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No, these are past winners (Nov 2012 competition):
www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/2013/CGS_Bombardier_2012_EF.pdf
Edit: you actually have to copy and paste the link into your browser, since clicking it doesn't work.
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I don't think SSHRC staff actively gleans information from this forum, I'm sure they have more important things to do, such as waiting for an entire month after the applications have been reviewed to release the results.
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I had a dream last night that SSHRC tweeted it would be mailing out results this Wednesday. I actually checked the twitter page first thing this morning to confirm that the dream was not, in fact, prophetic. Oh wells.
Heh, these dreams are pretty common in April. Speaking of dreams: I had a dream the other night that I was awarded a SSHRC, and then a zombie apocalypse broke out. I was very disappointed that I received the award and couldn't take it up anywhere since there were no functioning universities left!
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Congrats gradschoolcat! I guess some departments do know the results before their students are notified.