Konstantin
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Someone here emailed SSHRC and they said to expect results in mid to late April.
That's right -- I was just pointing out that the results will be released via regular mail, not electronically.
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An award announcement made on April 1st at my school indicates that the competition results will be released by surface mail at the end of April. I assume this was not an April Fools joke!
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Now that we have seen all the MA students around us get their SSHRCs, how does everyone feel?
And now we get to witness all other Tri-Council applicants post about their awards! I think CIHR is next.
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The OGS is institution-specific...Carleton will be releasing its competition results mid-April. My deadline was Dec 2, 2013.
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I just was reading about the American. Phew. I today accepted an offer at CU Boulder. Should I let SSHRC know I'll be going to an American school? I'm glad to know they'll be okay with changing it.
I think it would be wise to wait until you receive the competition results from SSHRC before emailing them re: attending an American school, since SSHRC has already determined the successful applicants and in your SSHRC application you indicated that you'd be attending a (Canadian?) school. If you are awarded a CGS SSHRC, then you can always notify them that you will downgrade it to a Fellowship -- that's how I understand the process!
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Does anyone know what it means if you got offered SSHRC at an institution that has yet to conduct interviews or make offers of acceptance yet?
I think it means that you'd better get accepted somewhere!
On a serious note, if you've been awarded a SSHRC, you can actually inform the universities you're applying to and it may improve your chances of being accepted especially if the university does not offer a lot of internal funding and funding is pre-requisite for receiving admission. I know an applicant who was initially denied admission, then received a SSHRC and the university subsequently overturned its decision and accepted the applicant because he had his own -- SSHRC -- funding.
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Haha, I'm definitely feeling the same way--a friend told me today she received an MA SSHRC, and I had to wait a month longer last year to get the same news!
I have two questions regarding doctoral SSHRC funding, provided I am lucky enough to receive good news this year:
-if you receive the larger grant ($35,000/3 years) are you able to elect to take the smaller grant ($20,000/4 years)? I ended up accepting an offer to an American PhD program and you cannot take the larger SSHRC grants outside of Canada.
-does anyone know if American programs allow you to combine their funding package with SSHRC or does it have to be one or the other? SSHRC's Award Holder's Guide states "You may, however, accept awards from other sources, regardless of value, e.g., foreign sources, Canadian provinces, private organizations, your university." ...I suppose it probably varies from institution to institution, but any insight would be appreciated!
I'm positive that SSHRC will have no problem downgrading a 35x3 CGS award to a 20x4 Fellowship upon request. In fact, it's common practice to convert a SSHRC CGS into a SSHRC Fellowship if you're planning to study in the US. In past years successful applicants that SSHRC designates in "Category C" will have a choice between a CGS and and Fellowship (Category A is a CGS and Category B is a Fellowship).
Not too sure which universities in the US will allow you to hold multiple awards concurrently (including a SSHRC), but it's worth checking with the institution(s) you're applying to. In Canada most universities will reduce your internal funding package if you've been awarded a major external scholarship.
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I'm feeling a bit spiteful towards the CGS-M applicants today. In my day, masters students had to wait a whole month after the doctoral applicants got their results...
Yeah we definitely get the raw deal! We're also the last Tri-Council doctoral applicants to receive the results, but I guess somebody has to be last. According to SSHRC, it's working to implement the Research Portal that will electronically unveil competition results...but hopefully many of us won't have to re-apply!
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Vanier - any guess what time the results will go online? Morning?
There's actually a separate thread for the Vanier:
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My envelope had 2 pages with double-sided print.
Thanks victoroza! I'm assuming that SSHRC letters will follow a similar format.
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The envelope was not very thick. If I recall correctly, it had 2 (maybe 3?) pages it in. There was no score. The first page had the congrats blurb, on the back it said what your award was, and then there was 1 (or 2) pages about policies and online forms.
Great, thanks for the info (I'm a SSHRC applicant ).
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Question for the successful applicants: how thick was the envelope w/ the award letter? How many pages were in it? Did you receive a score out of 30?
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Thanks, Konstantin!
No problem. I read someone's post on the NSERC thread that they had heard from their grad chair ahead of receiving the official letter from NSERC. So, I guess informal notifications are Tri-Council agency- and department-specific.
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I hear you Macavity, I am away from the 12-19th with very little access to internet and absolutely no access to my mailbox! So I guess I will not be finding out until at least the 20th even if we get the notification earlier than last year.
Going to be a long trip, I think.
EDIT: Konstantin, do you know if your department emails successful students before notification from SSHRC? You seem to have a lot of knowledge of the process form years past.
I emailed my grad administrator today and she replied that my department would not be notified earlier than the successful applicants. In other words, the applicants and the dept. will know the results roughly at the same time. She couldn't speak for other departments though.
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I could swear that wasn't there a couple of weeks ago! I think it only said something general like "April", with no specific date.
But, perhaps I'm wrong...
Even better -- the Vanier beat its own deadline!
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Thanks for that info! I was reading all the SSHRC posts and wondering if we'd have to wait even longer for Vanier.
Best of luck to everyone!
I saw the timeline for the Vanier results at http://www.vanier.gc.ca/eng/international_students-etudiants_etrangers.aspx
Looks like it has been March 31st all along!
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I hear you Macavity, I am away from the 12-19th with very little access to internet and absolutely no access to my mailbox! So I guess I will not be finding out until at least the 20th even if we get the notification earlier than last year.
Going to be a long trip, I think.
EDIT: Konstantin, do you know if your department emails successful students before notification from SSHRC? You seem to have a lot of knowledge of the process form years past.
I can ask the grad chair in my department next week -- will report back! I'm almost certain that the departments know a lot sooner than the students.
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Thanks for following up crimsoc. It looks like my prediction of April 16th/17th would be correct.
We're almost there folks. Good luck to everyone.
Ditto. We are now officially within a few weeks' range of receiving results. Sending out good vibes to all y'all.
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Checked last year's threads, and it looks like SSHRC applicants received their results a full 4 weeks after NSERC applicants...if the same thing happens this year, it puts us at the end of April as originally forecasted.
Yeah, I'm banking on the end of April, but I still think it's possible that the online system for NSERC and CIHR Doctoral and Masters applications will speed things up a bit for us.
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Talked with my GDA and GPD today and they are expecting end of April, as per usual.
You know it's interesting that my university released an announcement last week that all Tri-Council applicants should expect results end of April, yet NSERC applicants appear to be receiving their letters now.
http://gradstudents.carleton.ca/2014/award-announcement-information/
Maybe other schools are more informed!
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A quick note that at my university, the deadline for Ph.D. NSERC was about 19 days earlier than for SSHRC (Sept 30 vs. Oct 19th). Is anyone else aware of the deadlines for NSERC and SSHRC at other universities? I'm trying to estimate whether the variations in application deadlines might indicate a possible date that we could expect to receive SSHRC results.
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Does anybody here know if it is possible to get a duplicate copy of a letter sent to a different address than one's main university address? Am out of town for a while. I've emailed them two weeks ago to enquire but (of course) no reply. They must be as busy as I am ;-).....
I'm not sure if they would send you a duplicate, but if you email them at fellowships@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca, they'll change your address they have on file. 2 weeks is quite a long time for them to reply, so I'd email them again just to follow-up. In my communications with them, they have always acknowledged receipts of my emails.
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I think my school has no idea when the results will be out, judging by its erroneous media release mid-March claiming that the NSERC applicants would be receiving their results by mail at the end of April, whereas they have already received their results in March electronically.