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This year NSERC is being late in announcing the upgrades (if there is any at all).
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Hi everyone!!! about 1 week ago I posted here disappointed that I was waitlisted, and frustrated with my ranking and scores (see a few posts above). My ranking must have been 61/103 overall and not 61/103 on the waitlist like I assumed. I GOT OFF THE WAITLIST! I got a NSERC CGS M award!!!!!!!!!!!
:D Miracles do happen 
THANK YOU NSERC YOU HAVE MADE ME SO HAPPY.Anyone else got the happy news??!?!
*happy dance!*COngratulations ! when did you get the news? Was it through postal mail or through email from NSERC?
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What I understood from their letter that the scholarships are not distributed based on the ranking only. It is not like the first ten in the list gets a CGS and the next 20 gets a PGS. They have some way of distributing them. Depending as well on the ranking but not solely.
Well, let us hope for the best. What about you?
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I received my ranking as well and I think I do not have any hope of getting any upgradation to CGS-D.
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Any update on PGS-D to CGS-D anyone?
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Anyone received any update from NSERC about upgrade from PGS-D to CGS-D?
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Just received my letter in Kingston. Got a PGS-D, letter dated on the 25th March and posted on the 27th March. Best of luck to all.
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I was upgraded from a PGSD to a CGSD in June last year. I was ranked six spots below the cutoff for CGS level awards, so at least 6 people must have declined the CGS in my category. I would assume that at least six people on the wait list were then offered PGS awards.
Hi Pacific,
How did you know where you are in the list below the cutoff for CGS level awards?
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I just learned from my department I got NSERC PGS-D.
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Found out I got CGS-M this afternoon in Alberta!
your school's grad studies is open in the weekends?
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I am on the alternate list for my university. Does anyone know how this works?
Which school do you go to dynasty007?
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Anyone from Queen's heard about their PGS D CGS D results?
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I probably could not make it this year. I am the CS department, one of my friends who is in the ECE department already heard from her department this morning about her CGS-M success, that means results are sent to the departments. I did not hear anything so far from my department. I hope all of you best of luck on your result!
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Any more news from anyone about CGS/PGS results?
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I never thought I'd say this, but I hate Fridays! If we don't hear today, then we have to wait a whole weekend, and maybe more
.I think that next week is a good time to start stalking the mailman, lol.
Couldn't agree more!
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Budget is released. Anyone have any idea how this affected NSERC, if it did at all?
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In my case, and others from the same university
the department contacted us, without inquiring.
Thanks. Which school do you go to and did you win?
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My questions is - all the guys who know their results, were they informed by the departments without enquiring or the department let them know of the result only after they enquired about the results.
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Sorry to hear that! I guess they are only contacting the ones who got the award.
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Just received word from the UBC awards department that I got NSERC. No word on what kind (PGS/CGS), I applied for my PhD in bio. WOO Good luck!
WOW! Congrats, hope we all get some sort of good news soon.
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If it has any relation to budget date at all, this year we should hear it earlier than last year as the budget will be released tomorrow March 21st. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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I don't think you need to make your research proposal "specific to helping Canada", although maybe this depends on the committee you're applying to. I won a CGS-M in 2010 and a CGS-D3 in 2012 (but I declined it to take a PGS-D to the US, so hopefully someone got my CGS, if it even works that way!) and both of my research proposals had absolutely no practical applications at all. However, I believe that it really helped that my research statement described a potential MSc/PhD project that was both interesting and well motivated to appeal to a general audience. It might also help that I was in the Physics/Astronomy committee, which is more "pure science" so there is generally less need to justify your work with a practical reasoning. Instead, it's much more important to justify how your work can help other scientists in your own field! You need to show that your research will have an impact, but it doesn't necessarily have to be practical or economical.
I really think the evaluation criteria given by NSERC on their webpage (at PhD level, 50% research potential, 30% grades, 20% community service) is an accurate reflection of what NSERC values in selecting their fellowship winners. The research statement is probably what is necessary to distinguish other good "on paper" stats (e.g. grades, publications). In order to write my research statement, I contacted professors at schools I wanted to do my MSc or PhD in, and told them that I am applying to work with them and that I'm applying for NSERC funding, so would they mind taking 30mins to an hour to discuss a potential project with me. In one case, we had a series of meetings where the prof assigned me some reading, then I wrote a draft, then we went over the draft, and finally I submitted it. I think it's really helpful to be writing a proposal about an real/plausible PhD project, because faculty members are the ones that know what is really achievable and can anticipate difficulties so you can address them in your proposals. So I really recommend that people get a faculty member to at least read over what you wrote -- I've found some of the NSERC proposals I've read to be either aiming unrealistically high, or were too vague (no goals set, just the "let's do science and see what happens" attitude).
Basically, they are investing up to $100,000 (and their reputation as a federal granting agency) on you so you need to instill confidence in them that you will be worth their money. It is basically a grant application and applying for money is much different than applying to schools or writing an academic paper.
Very informative post. But I guessed most applicants are aware of the fact that, essentially they have to sell their proposal and for that it has to appear appealing from an application point of view as well.
And yes, your way of writing a proposal is I guess one of the best ways to follow. Getting a faculty to look at your proposal is very useful.
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The definition of a glowing proposal is still a mystery to me. I mean every applicant knows their proposal should somehow be related to the welfare of Canada and tries to gear it towards that. Then what makes my proposal outstanding is not clear to me.
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Congratulations Funhe. Did you get your ranking or score from NSERC before?