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  1. Received transcript request at ~2:00pm PST
  2. Received my letter yesterday (I had no idea there was mail on Saturday). I got 22.6 / 30 and a 2-year fellowship. Such a relief. My info at the time of application: - MA SSHRC, and 4+ other graduate scholarships (the form only takes 5) - 3.5 undergrad GPA - 4.0 MA GPA - 4.0 PhD GPA - 2 peer-reviewed articles (1 single-authored) - 2 'real' conference papers, 2 grad conference papers - 5 TA positions - 4 RA positions - one year overseas work experience between undergrad and master's - strong references (I assume) Like others, this is my second pass at this award, so I understand the sting of getting turned down. I didn't even make it to the second round last time. Poseidon's earlier comments on this are exactly right: in my opinion, the process is best interpreted not as a reflection on "you," only those pieces of paper you submitted, and the temperament of the tired professor speed-reading them. This forum has been such a great resource over the years since way back when I was applying for my MA SSHRC. Kudos to everyone for being so supportive and helpful.Good luck to all current and future applicants!
  3. Still waiting here in California. Have any others in the States received anything yet?
  4. I'm at UC Berkeley and made clear early on with my department what the conditions were on that. Basically, my department doesn't do "claw-backs" (in contrast to my alma maters UBC and U of T, where they would have substituted the SSHRC award for your internal funding). As you can imagine, this puts an insanely large incentive for getting one, since it stacks on top of whatever other internal or external funding. This probably varies by institution, and maybe even within the UC, but I suspect that since most departments simply don't have enough Canadians to warrant a policy about SSHRCs, that your department might also allow you to stack your scholarships. Fingers crossed!
  5. I can see an application for the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement as well in the SSHRC website when I log in and try to create a new form. That would be great if we could discern whether we were successful based on its presence/absence. Are you sure it wasn't there before? And I wonder if those who were unsuccessful can also see an application for the Michael Smith? Would somebody who did not receive an award this time around be willing to check if they can see it too?
  6. Also made it to the A round, applying from the States. Those numbers poseidon quoted seem right. You can check and cross-reference success rates according to a whole bunch of applicant characteristics here: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/stats-statistiques/index-eng.aspx. Looks like the success rate for applicants who applied from American universities after proceeding to the A list dropped from 72.1% in 2011 to 63.8% in 2012. Hopefully that trend won't continue up to now. In general, though, these statistics show that A-listed applicants from the US tend to fare better than A-listed applicants from Canada, who had success rates of 24.2% in 2011 and 25.3% in 2012. Ugh. Gonna try not to think about this until May.
  7. Thanks RWBG. It sounds like that February date you mentioned might just apply to Canadian students studying at foreign universities. Since we don't go through the same competition as those who go through Canadian institutions, I bet our dates are slightly different. Fingers crossed.
  8. I'm in a PhD program at Berkeley and am still waiting to hear back from SSHRC. Anybody else applying internationally hear anything yet?
  9. eagle-bear

    SSHRC 2010

    Just got my successful MA letter in Toronto.
  10. eagle-bear

    SSHRC 2010

    Wait, so you're saying you haven't gotten your sparkly unicorn yet?
  11. Just checked. Also unsuccessful.
  12. Oops, my mistake. I meant to type 710 for my quantitative score. Perhaps this partly explains is why I could not score higher.
  13. I am a Canadian MA student considering doctoral studies in the United States. If I decide to do a PhD, this probably means I would ultimately be gunning for an academic position, and would therefore be determined to attend the "best" school possible (let's assume excellent and appropriate supervisors can be found at all potential schools). I got 690/719/5.5 (verbal/quantitative/analytical) on my GREs. Is this good enough for the "top 10" schools? (NB: I will likely be applying to an environmental studies type of program) Thanks!
  14. eagle-bear

    SSHRC 2010

    I'm in the first year of my Masters at U of T, looking to get SSHRC funding for my second year. I got forwarded along to Ottawa, but have heard a lot of different things about the success rate at this stage for the Masters competition. Pete Grav, the SSHRC-writing guru over here, said that generally the success rate is "extremely high," which is corroborated by a few other people on this forum and one person I know who claimed the success rate was over 90% (!). Some other people cautioned that this was far less certain, but I wonder whether they're confusing this scholarship with either the PhD-level competition or the NSERC Masters competition. I've been in this nebulous indecision-zone between wanting to buy a new computer and fearing I'll have to pawn it to pay for my research or something. Anyone have any more definitive answers to this one?
  15. Let me guess, 2nd to the university I just came from (UBC)? Sometimes this whole process feels like a big game of snakes and ladders. Thanks for the info!
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