LD-Grad

Wed. 2 May (Saskatchewan)

I have been lurking in this thread for a while so I thought I would add my stats to the list for future reference. Sucssessful award of a Fellowship ($20,000 for 4 years) for DPhil in history at Oxford, 2012 entry. Incidently, that covers about 75% of my tuition, or about 45% of the total cost of the programme, but such is the way for anyone going overseas. My first application for 2011 failed to get out of the History Department at my MA university. Direct application for 2012 with: No MA SSHRC (a previous MSc prevented me from qualifying) but local GTF for duration of MA Extra TA position as an 'award' BA (Hons) 88% gpa (unweighted, cumulative for the final year) MA, 87% for course work (no thesis grade) 2 single-author pubs 2 conferences during MA 2 during BA one writing award in BA and one course work award at MA result was a 22/30 Incidently, I am a 'mature student' in that I did not finish that 1st BA until I was 35. I also have an LD, but SSHRC does not make special concessions for those sorts of conditions (officially, at least). I mention all the extra as it is always difficult to know what, exactly, matters in this sort of competition. Good luck everyone, whatever the results.