NeedFunds
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Word on the street is that it is late this week OR early next week. And, in the language of SSHRC, that could mean by the end of the month.
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Absolutely - it is absurd to think that every committee would finish reviewing at the exact same time. Some are definitely more efficient than others, some likely have slightly heavier workloads - there are a number of reasons as to why not all committees would finish reviewing at the same time and hence, why some results would be available before others.
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I completely agree with you - the whole point of this forum is to share information amongst one another and to shut someone down when they proffer this information defeats the purpose of following these threads in the first place. I don't know whether every department knows the results as of yet, but certainly those with committee members do.
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Nice, it is very difficult to work under these conditions.
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Touche!
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Unfortunately, I too have learned this from experience!
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Formally, yes, but their are individuals who are privy to insider information - just wondering who knows what. It is not uncommon for departments to know results ahead of time and share this information with students.
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Anyone here anything on a precise date yet?
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Any more news today?
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I had been following this thread yesterday morning and when I checked it out last night I thought something had happened given all the activity yesterday afternoon. D'oh!
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I think what SSHRC likes to see from what I have been told is focus, that you can pick a general area of research and conduct programmatic research; while the topic that you propose for your dissertation might differ from what you did for your MA, it would be absurd to believe that conducting research on the same topic for your dissertation would hurt your chances. Of course, you need new ideas and should not be making slight changes to what is essentially the same research, but following the same theme illustrates focus and direction.
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I know that the decisions have already been made and that it will have no effect on my results but I'm still a chicken, so I'll let someone else take the initiative. Sorry! I am going into the department today, so I will ask around and see if anyone knows when we should expect the results.
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Here is to hoping that SSHRC results are actually mailed out this week and if it isn't too much to ask, early enough this week that we receive them by the end of the week!
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If you look on page 11, checkered blanket mentioned that SSHRC said results would be mailed out next week - at the end of April; this suggests to me that they expect to mail results out at the end of next week and we should receive them the first few days of May.
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It's ridiculous that they do not email us the results - if they intend to mail out the results next week, then they obviously have already made their decisions and could save us a lot of anxiety and themselves a ton of inquiries if they emailed results prior to sending letters via snail mail.
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It's quiet here this morning, so I thought I would get the ball rolling. Will SSHRC let us (or our respective schools) know when the results have been sent out?
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I'm at Queen's and I have not heard that; however, we were told a few weeks ago that SSHRC had still not told graduate studies when results would be released.
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Two weeks from now will be May - the first is not this upcoming Tuesday, but the following. This is agonizing!
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Can't take the waiting!!!
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At least you have results for FQRSC, in Ontario we have the pleasure of having both the SSHRC and OGS competitions drag on for at least another couple of weeks. I'm on edge here. lol.
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I'm not holding my breath for next week, although that would be wonderful and they were released 51 weeks ago today!
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I'm not 100% sure either way, but that is what I'm getting at - it does not make much sense to use the initial rankings because they are useless at the national level. I am not going to hold my breath or anything, but hopefully soon! Best of luck!
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I think it is unlikely that any ranking at the school level has much impact in the National competition (other than the A-list B-list decision of course). There are different success rates depending on the school you attend - so being ranked number 1 at UofT where the success rate is very high (like 80% or something like that) is not equivalent to being ranked number 1 at a school where the success rate is 30%. The quality of applications at schools with much higher success rates are better, so the top ranked individual at a school with a low success rate might only be ranked in the middle of the pack at a school like UofT (just to be clear, I do not go to UofT or anything).
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I have only ever seen one score, so I would tend to agree with you that there is a cutoff; however, assuming there are two scores as previous posters have mentioned, this seems to me to be a reasonable explanation for why there would be a decrease in scores.
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I'm not completely sure how the scoring system works, but it is reasonable to expect that your score would decrease in the National round. In the initial round, if you are ranked by a school with a quota, you are ranked amongst both A- and B-list applicants. Likewise, if you apply directly to SSHRC you are ranked amongst both A- and B-list applicants. Presumably the scores that a student receives are standardized - there relative to the other applicants in the pool. Thus, in the initial rankings one should have a higher score than he or she would in the National competition as the weaker B-list applications are also included in these rankings, increasing A-list applicants scores relative to the mean. In the National competition, these B-list students are no longer included, so relative to the mean, a students score should not be as high. Even if they do not officially use a standardization process, this is still likely a conceptual explanation of why it is reasonable to expect that one's score should decrease in the National competition.
