adizzle Posted April 8, 2018 Posted April 8, 2018 Hey @scvp3, awards need to be accepted by the end of the month, after which I believe NSERC will rescind the award. After that, I assume they will start contacting people on the shortlist. I'm sorry I don't have more information, best of luck!
prospectivegrad1 Posted April 9, 2018 Posted April 9, 2018 Has anyone gotten a response email from NSERC after emailing them to accept the award? @Jibster @jakeopolis
mimica Posted April 10, 2018 Posted April 10, 2018 14 hours ago, prospectivegrad1 said: Has anyone gotten a response email from NSERC after emailing them to accept the award? @Jibster @jakeopolis yes. someone replied within an hour or so after i accepted today, after the "we are so busy"email that came right away.
prospectivegrad1 Posted April 10, 2018 Posted April 10, 2018 1 hour ago, mimica said: yes. someone replied within an hour or so after i accepted today, after the "we are so busy"email that came right away. Okay--same thing happened to me earlier today as well!
jakeopolis Posted April 11, 2018 Posted April 11, 2018 On 4/9/2018 at 10:02 AM, prospectivegrad1 said: Has anyone gotten a response email from NSERC after emailing them to accept the award? @Jibster @jakeopolis i actually still haven't heard back from anyone at NSERC after sending my acceptance email... what the hell? is there anywhere to check this online?
pinkvelvet Posted April 12, 2018 Posted April 12, 2018 I also didn't hear back, so I sent another email just now from my acceptance email saying "Just in case this was missed blabla see also below". Received the acknowledgement email in 10 minutes.
jakeopolis Posted April 13, 2018 Posted April 13, 2018 Hey by the way, does anyone know what the deal is with CGSD? Are they just offering PGSD now and then potentially upgrade people later? Or, if we have already received PGSD, that means we were not ranked high enough for CGS?
java_beans Posted April 17, 2018 Posted April 17, 2018 On 4/13/2018 at 11:27 AM, jakeopolis said: Hey by the way, does anyone know what the deal is with CGSD? Are they just offering PGSD now and then potentially upgrade people later? Or, if we have already received PGSD, that means we were not ranked high enough for CGS? Everyone should get their ranking in the mail around now. I got mine today. Not sure how many CGS-Ds or PGS-Ds they allocate but that should tell you how many people ranked above you in your category.
MathCat Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 On 4/13/2018 at 8:27 AM, jakeopolis said: Hey by the way, does anyone know what the deal is with CGSD? Are they just offering PGSD now and then potentially upgrade people later? Or, if we have already received PGSD, that means we were not ranked high enough for CGS? It means you weren't ranked high enough to be in the first round of CGS-D offers. If you are ranked high enough, you may be upgraded to a CGS-D if one is declined. A fair number of them do get declined, as you can see if you look at previous years' threads. (A common reason they are declined is that they cannot be held at foreign institutions - so people in that situation downgrade to a PGS-D instead.)
jakeopolis Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 14 hours ago, MathCat said: It means you weren't ranked high enough to be in the first round of CGS-D offers. If you are ranked high enough, you may be upgraded to a CGS-D if one is declined. A fair number of them do get declined, as you can see if you look at previous years' threads. (A common reason they are declined is that they cannot be held at foreign institutions - so people in that situation downgrade to a PGS-D instead.) Cool, that makes sense. I was ranked pretty high on my committee, but I have no idea how that ranks overall... I guess we just wait and hope. It's a long shot but man, getting upgraded to a CGS-D would change my life.
thewaterdude Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 10 hours ago, jakeopolis said: Cool, that makes sense. I was ranked pretty high on my committee, but I have no idea how that ranks overall... I guess we just wait and hope. It's a long shot but man, getting upgraded to a CGS-D would change my life. I have reviewed the competition statistics for the last few years. http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_doc/Students-Etudiants/2017StatsScholarships_e.pdf (change the year from 2017 to other years) On page 3 and 4 of this document you will find the success rate of each committee (usually the same across committee, minor differences). The overall success rate for CGS/PGS combined is about top 42~47% for the last 4 years. Success rate for CGS is about top 20%. I am ranked in the middle of the PGSD pool (halfway between 20 and 45%) so I really need everyone who got CGS in my committee to decline so I can move up to the CGS Any CGS winner at foreign institutes wanna trade?
jakeopolis Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) 14 hours ago, thewaterdude said: I have reviewed the competition statistics for the last few years. http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_doc/Students-Etudiants/2017StatsScholarships_e.pdf (change the year from 2017 to other years) On page 3 and 4 of this document you will find the success rate of each committee (usually the same across committee, minor differences). The overall success rate for CGS/PGS combined is about top 42~47% for the last 4 years. Success rate for CGS is about top 20%. I am ranked in the middle of the PGSD pool (halfway between 20 and 45%) so I really need everyone who got CGS in my committee to decline so I can move up to the CGS Any CGS winner at foreign institutes wanna trade? That's super helpful, thanks! Looks like out of 129 applications to my committee, the top 28 got the CGS. I ranked 33 out of 129 so I just need a handful of people to decline! SO CLOSE!!! The deadline to accept or decline is April 25, so I'm assuming it will be after that date that they upgrade those lucky few. Fingers and toes heavily crossed! Edited April 19, 2018 by jakeopolis
Jibster Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 Hey everyone just a quick question. First of all congrats to all the winners! Second, because this is a large scholarship competition, do we acknowledge it on our CVs in a certain way? For example, I know the Americans who win the NSF GRFP (the US equivalent) call themselves NSF Fellows and will actually write on their CVs: "NSF Fellow: 2010-2013" etc, etc. Are we NSERC Canada Graduate Scholars? Or NSERC Postgraduate Scholars? Or do we just add a line to an awards/scholarships section? I want to maximize my CV. Thanks!
thewaterdude Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 16 hours ago, Jibster said: Hey everyone just a quick question. First of all congrats to all the winners! Second, because this is a large scholarship competition, do we acknowledge it on our CVs in a certain way? For example, I know the Americans who win the NSF GRFP (the US equivalent) call themselves NSF Fellows and will actually write on their CVs: "NSF Fellow: 2010-2013" etc, etc. Are we NSERC Canada Graduate Scholars? Or NSERC Postgraduate Scholars? Or do we just add a line to an awards/scholarships section? I want to maximize my CV. Thanks! I suppose you can call yourself NSERC Postgraduate Scholar on your CV. I don't think it's an official thing though. The only scholars I heard of are Vanier and Killam
Skyrrrr Posted April 22, 2018 Posted April 22, 2018 So I accepted my PGSDD 3 (foreign) offer on April 11 and since they didn't reply back I emailed them again on the 17th. I still haven't heard back; should I email them again? [Just in case, what does "confirming the start date" entail?]. I Just wrote down "Yes, the start date of May 2018 is correct.".
Jared Q Posted May 31, 2018 Posted May 31, 2018 Did anyone on the alternate list get news from NSERC yet?
Sam279 Posted June 1, 2018 Posted June 1, 2018 Same here. Anyone got any news for alternate list. Still in hope to get some news..
simulatedReality Posted July 7, 2018 Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) Hello, I was in the short list of alternates (Computer Science) and received a letter from NSERC that I got the scholarship It was a moment of sheer happiness .as the wait was long and painful!. Edited July 7, 2018 by simulatedReality
John11 Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 @simulatedReality Did you receive your letter on Saturday?
ThinkA Posted July 10, 2018 Posted July 10, 2018 Congrats @simulatedReality! What a good feeling! I was also on the short list for 187 (cellular and molecular biology) and received notice of a PGS-D offer by email on June 5th.
simulatedReality Posted July 10, 2018 Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) On 7/9/2018 at 11:22 PM, John11 said: @simulatedReality Did you receive your letter on Saturday? I received the letter on the eve of last Friday (July 6th). Edited July 10, 2018 by simulatedReality
simulatedReality Posted July 10, 2018 Posted July 10, 2018 6 hours ago, ThinkA said: Congrats @simulatedReality! What a good feeling! I was also on the short list for 187 (cellular and molecular biology) and received notice of a PGS-D offer by email on June 5th. Congrats ThinkA.
java_beans Posted October 6, 2018 Posted October 6, 2018 Does anyone know when the results will be posted to the NSERC website? I see the 2017-2018 results, however I believe the results for last year's competition would have been the 2018-2019 competition, which I don't see in their awards database or here: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/FundingDecisions-DecisionsFinancement/ScholarshipsAndFellowships-ConcoursDeBourses/index_eng.asp Looking back at my letter from them, they recommend looking at these results so it's weird that they haven't uploaded the results so close to this year's deadline. uofm_h20 1
uofm_h20 Posted October 19, 2018 Posted October 19, 2018 Are we allowed to publicly discuss our awards now? I know the letters said we needed to wait until results were publicly announced.
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