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Oooh congrats! I'm surprised you did Committee 1 since you said your new work is so interdisciplinary! Still mostly literature based?

Congrats to all who heard good news today Last night, I had a terrible nightmare that I got a 5/20. The letter they sent looked like one of those grade school rubrics and the committee had circled all the way down the "bad" column. Someone put me out of my waiting misery!

This is enabling in all the worst ways lol... but I'm going to look into it as well

Just want to chip in that my situation, if I get the fellowship, will be the one you describe here.

No, since external applicants did not apply through any school, the school would have no way of knowing. We have to notify our universities of our success!

No, there should be no effect. But also, if you're a direct applicant, there'd be no way for you to find out from the department that you listed, had you gone there, before the mail comes. I think this is due to it being 2 separate streams of applications. Look back in the past couple of pages, all your answers are there!

I'm not going to (obsessively) check my mailbox until Thursday. But then I looked at that CV (whatever that thing is) in my portfolio and it has my address listed wrong so maybe I won't even get my letter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's what I mean... I feel like they should at least have a systematic, coordinated notification system in Canada of all places rather than notifying departments first and then allowing them to decide whether to inform students or not, while also mailing out paper copies. Why sow so much confusion? I'm on the US too (West coast) so now that they've announced the mailing, I'm thinking it'll be late next week.

This really makes no sense to me. How can the results announcements be so uneven?

Or even email you to tell you to login to view results like, oh I don't know, every university in North America.

Seriously. All the people I've told at my US school have been incredulous that results are by snail mail... seems intentionally torturous.

Mailed on the 26th and a 1-2 week wait?! Blatant false advertising... notice of second round selection totally said notification in April.

Wait what portal is everyone talking about?

One more week!

Thanks for doing that and letting us know! I had it marked in my calendar as April 1 since the letter said we'll be informed April 2017... so naive.

When you just wish Rihanna were in charge of your fellowship decisions

Ha I know... I had set it aside in my mind until April but this recent letter took me by surprise and upset my careful compartmentalization. I definitely have many things to keep me busy until the actual announcement!

Sorry to hear this Can you still apply again next year? I remember reading the last year is I think the 3rd year of a Ph.D. program? I'm applying in my 2nd right now. I was wondering about this too. My letter doesn't say 534 "direct" applicants, it just says "among the 534 applications reviewed...". Have been trying to figure out how these numbers work. Does the 251 recommended apps include only foreign ones? Because last year they gave out a total of 450 awards, Canadian and foreign. The total foreign awards given last year was 43 awards and 10 "unknown" (what?) I'm busy trying to figure out what the hell kind of chances I have based on these stats.

Resurrecting this: does the Canadian government really offer no overseas graduate level language training funding?

For those who stumble upon this in the future: I heard back from someone at SSHRC and sending them directly from the institution is fine. Phew.

Okay, I know it's due tomorrow but it just occurred to me: I'm applying from a university outside of Canada. Was I supposed to attach the transcripts to my application? I did it gradapp style and sent the transcripts directly from my institutions to SSHRC HQ. Did I just screw myself?

I'm wondering if anyone here knows: is there a Fulbright for Canadians currently studying in the US? I know that the Canadian Fulbright can be used to fund study in the US but I'm wondering if I can apply and use it to study outside of North America.

I'm currently in a Ph.D. program in the US but I'm a Canadian citizen. That means unfortunately that I'm ineligible for FLAS (US citizens only). The only thing I saw from the Canadian government requires the student to be residing in Canada and attending a Canadian school. Anyone know of institutes, programs, or fellowships that fund Canadians studying abroad (or, a US program that doesn't require citizenship?) I'm most interested in going to Taiwan or Hong Kong.

The only time I've used that option on Priceline, I received a 6am flight. Be ready to get a really, really bad flight time.