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SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2013
poseidon2012 replied to Mike D.'s topic in The Bank
Thanks NFL! I've been through this before... First time, I didn't make it past the Cdn university ctte. Second time, I got to the A round, but it didn't work out. So I'm hoping this time I'll squeak through if they only have to fund me for two years... -
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship/CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2013
poseidon2012 replied to Mike D.'s topic in The Bank
Hi everyone, I'm a direct applicant from the States and I received my letter today. As the previous poster mentioned, basically 1/3 of the direct people went through. Good luck! -
Just a note for those waiting, I've found reading the post-award portions of previous SSHRC year threads helpful. For those new to this thread, I posted a response this month that someone received a few years back from SSHRC which seemed the clearest description of what is an opaque process. What I find interesting is that there are even a few examples on those previous threads of people being given awards the following February after they'd submitted for the next year's competition. But there are few of those examples.
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Thanks, Cathaea. That's super-helpful and in line with info from previous forums. I'm not in English, but when 18.7 is the cutoff and 16.2 (or lower?) is on the waitlist, I'm wondering if everyone gets waitlisted at 15.0 or higher.
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Just a note for waitlist people. I wrote to SSHRC yesterday and received the usual vague news. But here's something I dug up from page 56 of the SSHRC 2009 thread. A response from a SSHRC person about waitlists: ]When applicants apply to a committee in the Doctoral Awards program (National competition), their applications are forwarded randomly to one of the committee's sub-groups (the number of sub-groups varies by committee and depends on the volume of applications received by the committee). Each sub-group is assigned three committee members (normally from different research backgrounds) that evaluate, score and rank all applications in their assigned sub-group. The success rate in the competition remains the same across all committees and their respective sub-groups. Your place on the waiting list is determined by your score within your sub-group. If an award recipient in your sub-group declines their award, we will proceed through the list in rank order. ]Please note, that there will be allot of movement on the recommended but not funded lists this summer. SSHRC plans to let applicants know their final decisions by August 2009. Now some or all of this may not apply this year, but what is important to note here is not just that you are being waitlisted against one of the five committees, but waitlisted against the sub-groups within each committee. So for example, if it's Committee 5, you are not against everyone in PoliSci and Economics, but more likely just in Economics. The cut-off seems to be by sub-group rather than committee. I hope I'll get someone in the future at SSHRC who can tell me where I am on the waitlist (they should be able to do that now, since they've released results, instead of waiting a month). One thing that seems not to have been mentioned is that SSHRC is giving out 130 less awards than last year (so roughly the first 25 on the waitlist for each ctte. would have won last year).
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I've looked through previous forums and there is one on the SSHRC 2011 waitlist. As previous posters have mentioned, what seems to matter is the "cutoff" for your own committee and where you stand in relation to that. Depending on the luck of the draw, it seems like if you call SSHRC it's better than emailing regarding where you are on the waitlist (but that may be different year to year). From the file I mentioned, it seems like people on the waitlist actually do move up (sometimes in September or even in January), but I suspect you have to be ranked fairly high on your specific ctte. waitlist for that to happen.
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Finally, mail arrived in New York City. I was wrong on my mail calculations (last time was sent out Feb. 24 and arrived March 2nd= 4 business days; the postmark is only in Buffalo [2 days]). Committee I: 16.2/30. Waitlisted. Details: MA SSHRC, 2 yrs RA/TA, 5 year American funding, 2 OGS, 1st year of the doctoral program. I realize there may be movement on the waitlists (people upgrading to superSSHRC, Vanier, delaying for a year), but I'll email SSHRC to see just what percentage usually is on the waitlist and what movement there usually is. I'm hoping they can give some info, but they may not. Good luck to everyone else Stateside...
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von Dracula makes a great point. Had'nt thought of Saturday delivery. That might make it arrive Monday in NYC or Tuesday...
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I just checked the date that SSHRC mailed me news about Round 1 of the competition (for those who aren't affiliated with Cdn. universities). It was Feb. 28 and I received it in the States March 1. So those of you in Canada won't have to wait too long to receive the letter once they mail it out!
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It wasn't confirmed, but it would have been difficult to not have been, as I had been the only one to win the MA SSHRC. The main point is that for those of you who have won the MA SSHRC, you are not necessarily forwarded to the Doctoral SSHRC competition by the university (depending on its policies). Which I find bizarre.
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That's absolutely right, Caffeinated. I don't mean to be humourless about it. I'm sure people are super thrilled that they've won. I sure was when I won my Master's. Looking back over last year's correspondence, though, I must say I cringed a little seeing the ululations of the victors! But, for the sake of community, don't let me stop the celebrations! Let me add that everyone should obviously just keep on applying. Last year I was ranked 1/21 at the Master's Level and my university didn't forward my application (grrr!). But you should just keep on applying!
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I don't know how that smileyface typo got into the last post. Read Group B for that. Sorry. And as someone who has both won SSHRC awards in the past and who has not been forwarded by my university, can I suggest that whoever wins take into account those who haven't won, when informing us of their results. In other words, discretion might be preferred to triumphalism!
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Hello everyone, Just for additional information for those who applied directly to SSHRC from American universities. I received a letter on Friday March 2nd in New York City. So for those of you throughout the States who haven't received it yet, you should be doing so shortly. As the previous post noted, this is an intermediate step. I suggest calling it Stage 1 for those non-affiliated with a Cdn university or attending a non-Cdn. university. The Stage 1 letter tells you whether you moved on to the national competition (Group A) or you are out of competition (Group . Those of us who go on in Group A await Stage 2 results (whether we get the doctoral awards or not). SSHRC says it will be in April, but it looks like May 1 or later is a more realistic timeline, given the time it takes for letters to reach American destinations. The SSHRC stats change from year to year, but last year's results were encouraging. Of 137 Group A applicants from U.S. universities, 67 won awards. That's close to 50% odds. SSHRC also lists all the university affiliation of all award holders, and it seems they spread them out last year among many different American universities (though I realize that each competition is different). Note that SSHRC has two sets of stats, which can be rather confusing. The first lists Cdn students who applied by institution at time of affiliation and those institutions which award the doctorate. I received correspondence from SSHRC on clarifying these stats, but the answer wasn't terribly clear. The main thing is that 67 awards were given out last year to Cdn students attending U.S. universities.