mattboud

Yeah I'm in Montreal, but haven't checked yet.

Has there only been one person who received a letter for PGS/CGS today? If any of you 88 guests lurking this forum have any more information, please sign up and let us know! It only takes a minute!

What field are you in?

Yeah I have plenty of other scholarships, but NSERC has always evaded me! =)

So you have a higher chance of getting a PGS-D if you received a PGS-M in the past? I find that slightly unfair, but alas, I'm not the one giving away money I guess!

Maybe they're tending more towards near future "industrial" application, they've been getting a lot of pressure from the government. I heard that as for research grants, mathematics has been suffering a lot recently due to this change in mentality.

Everybody is naming their numbers of papers published, but reading through this forum, I have a strong feeling that your research proposal has more weight on their decision.

Nope.

Damn, I miss UWO, they were so organized with informing us of scholarships!

Someone else got an email from NSERC this morning saying that the letters have been sent. If they were sent yesterday, Montreal wouldn't have them yet, but Ottawa might!

I think a lot of people have already said that McGill never announces the results to student before they get their letter, unlike other schools. . If that's true, then Ottawa students might start getting letters today, and hopefully Montreal still start getting theirs tomorrow!

Oh so I haven't heard back from them this year yet, here's hoping!

Sorry to hear that, I've never won an NSERC award myself. What university and departement are you from?

If anybody does, it'll be Ottawa.

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Last year 285 CGS-Ds were awarded, so it's not a significant decrease.

Haha congrats! You just made a waitlisted applicant very happy!

Yup!

Oh wow, if you didn't get it with that background, I have no chance of getting it either!

Nope, and we're in the same departement! Good luck! =)

I was under the impression that departments/universities receive no information from NSERC about PDF results, unlike PGS/CGS. But I might be wrong.

J'pense pas que les departements recoivent de l'information sur les PDF.

Since they said the individuals will be notified, I imagine that means by mail. Let's hope Montreal gets their letters by next Tuesday!

Obviously. I think it would be quite an odd thing if a US PhD graduate would be awarded a scholarship by the Canadian government to do research in a non-Canadian university.

Please report anyways. Your tale of the mailman's journey yesterday was a lot more exciting than the papers I'm supposed to be reading