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Just wanted to say I received my official letter today. As expected, did not receive an award and am not on the wait-list. Also, my score was 14.5/30, which I'm pretty happy with as I lack experience in publications and presentations. Into the fray of next year's application... congratulations to all of you who have been successful, and best wishes to those of you still waiting to hear!

Sent my university (uWaterloo) an e-mail to see if they received the results. Heard back that they had and that I didn't receive an award. Assuming I'm not waitlisted either, but will wait for the official letter. My stats: -91% graduate average, similar undergraduate marks -will be entering my 1st year of PhD in Fall 2013 -0 peer reviewed publications -0 conference presentations -lots of TA positions and 1 RA -1 "other" publication; a report for my profession's governing body -solid research proposal and references (as far as I know) Not much experience, so thought it was a long-shot I would win an award, but with so much money at stake there's always some hope! Best of luck to everyone else and I will update my score/official status when I receive my letter.

I agree! I wish all schools either did or did not tell their students their status. Or better yet, have SSHRC send out notice to all applicants of their status.. on the same day... via e-mail. Imagine that! Oh- and no official letters in Waterloo today. Until tomorrow!

No news from my grad studies office yet.. I wish I knew they had the results for sure, and then I could hound them without fear of being annoying. Just not my personality! As for mail.. I'll know in probably 5 hours and will repost then.

Zencarrot- I had to look up what I/O stands for, so I can confidently say I'm not in I/O! I'm in the Applied Health Sciences department. Are you at Waterloo or studying elswhere?

Just curious Zencarrot- how were you notified? Did you department notify you, or was it your University's grad studies office?

I can see that application too.. I wish there were some back door way of figuring out if we've won awards, but I don't think the supplemental application is one of those ways. Until Monday (or beyond)!

Well.. as the letters make their way towards people, good luck to all! And for those of you who've received good news; congratulations!

I love seeing that you're studying leisure (I'm going into a rec&leisure PhD program next year)! And you sure have a lot of qualifications; congrats again!

Congratulations; I'm so jealous that your department/office for grad studies has let you know! I contacted my university's grad studies office earlier this week, so to avoid bugging them, and getting a similar reply like "e-mails will be sent when results become available", I'm going to be waiting it out. It's strange that SSHRC hasn't tweeted about sending out mail (if they've done so by now...).

Dotlock- is your Graduate Advisor a member of a SSHRC adjudication committee? I'm wondering if they had the inside scoop or if they heard from the Graduate Studies Office at your university. Hopefully results are being filtered through Grad Studies Offices and we can all expect to hear soon! Congratulations either way!

I just talked to the SSHRC scholarship co-ordinator at my school and was told that sometimes students will actually receive the results before the school does, so as for being notified by them, they may do it before or after I find out. Not very helpful but that seems to reflect the experiences of students who've applied for other Tri-Council awards, of which I read some heard in writing first and some heard from their school first. I wish that from that statement I could believe we would find out the results sooner.. but it appears that's not the case! Here's to continuing waiting anxiously for my mail in the next few weeks.

Check this year's thread: but no; nothing besides whether you're on the A or B or Alternate list.

I know that at my university, the reversion list works like so: 1- When students who were offered the award decline, because they choose to go to another school or hold another award, the awards are available to be given out to others. 2- To decide who gets the award, the school (in my case, faculty) looks at their reversion list (which may or may not already be ranked) and then choose someone from that list to get the award. You'll basically hear once the offer letters for Tri-Council (SSHR, CIHR, NSERV) have been sent out, and responses have started filtering back to the faculty/department. This is generally in the spring. In the e-mail I received I was also told that more specifically, reversion offers of OGS will start going out in May through August.

You're right; status largely depends on the school you attend. Personally, with my university, we heard back in February whether or not we received OGS for 2013-2014. That being said, those of us who heard were internal candidates, so already attending the school we're applying to for another degree, or attending in second year. I'm not sure when (or if) external candidates heard the results. Not sure if this is helpful, but we did hear. On a side note, based on allocation of awards within our university, our faculty received only about 50% of the awards we have received in previous years, so an OGS this year is much harder to obtain. I received one last year, but this year I'm simply on the reversion list. Hopefully your school has received more allocations instead of fewer like my faculty!