Smitten Pears

I'm in the same boat blarg

I'm not holding out much hope for it being today, I'm sorry to say! Last year wasn't it something like March 4/5?

Do we have any idea how to expect the results to come through? Reading the last year's thread left me confused about that! **ETA: Like, email, or do we have to set up an online portal, or...?

The waiting limbo is really hard, yah! Especially when you'd be looking at a May start, yeah.

Thanks for making this thread!

No longer stalking the mailman! Congratulations to everyone who was successful, and really hoping for good news for those on the waitlist - I've been there.

Stalking the mailman.......

Thank you! U of T doesn't do interviews for graduate music, to my knowledge.

In case newcomers to Toronto are starting to lurk on this thread, I'd add to the apartment-hunting comments that www.kijiji.com is also a really important resource. www.viewit.ca also used to be very good, but I didn't find it as helpful in my most recent apartment search; but it's good to look everywhere!

Ha ha, "UT"... "catheter"......... lol.

Any Musicology people out there? Just received an offer for the PhD at the University of Toronto - so happy to have this news. Didn't think I'd get word on a Sunday, particularly the last day of reading week, but - there you go!

...actually, I do want to add that it's equally ridiculous that they haven't established some kind of online upload system for application materials. This became painfully obvious to me this SSHRC application cycle: I've been living in London, UK, applying directly for the PhD scholarships. One of my letter writers is in Dallas, TX, and sent the letter to me in London in very good time, so I could package it up with the rest of my materials and send it to Ottawa (you guys know the drill). Well, the week before November 7 came and no letter. It didn't come and it didn't come. I realised around the Wednesday that if I didn't get him to send a new letter that very day, super expensive priority mail, AND his original letter didn't show up, I would be out of luck with an incomplete application and the deadline past. So I called him around 10am Dallas time and gave him my sob story. He said the only problems with helping me were a) he had an audition student on campus that day from Germany who he of course couldn't blow off; and he had written his letter of support directly into that stupid form-fillable pdf, printed it, and not saved a copy. So, he had to rewrite the whole thing (somehow between taking this student around campus), and get to UPS or whatever before 4pm. I of course felt like a total jerk for imposing on him that way. Happily, he pulled it off and the letter got to me by lunchtime on Friday (I think it cost just less than $50 - ouch). So I got everything sent off okay. And then weirdly, his original letter showed up I think some time in January........ having travelled by way of the Bermuda Triangle?? Anyways, moral of this story - that was a lot of anxiety and awkward machinations that could have been avoided by a simple online upload portal. You know, like we've had since the nineties. Sigh... SP

Stress... stress... I second everyone's frustration with SSHRC's antiquated ways. For what it's worth (which isn't much, I know!) Good luck to all!!

Not funny!!