stud007 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Is it also indicated in the NSERC letter being send? I am asking this because I dont find my grad student advisor in the office today and i am hoping to receive the letter arnd Tuesday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMVs Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Hey guys, just a heads up that letters reached Guelph today CGS-M! Congrats!!!! OMVs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winter2012 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 No mail in Waterloo for PDF. Lets hope that our mail arrives on Tuesday! Its a long wait though. Thanks for the update. Same here in BC. No mail from NSERC today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simhod Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Lets hope that our mail arrives on Tuesday! Its a long wait though. Thanks for the update. Same here in BC. No mail from NSERC today. if my letter crossed the border today, I still have chances to get the letter by Monday?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliasg Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 if my letter crossed the border today, I still have chances to get the letter by Monday?! There is no post on monday. Post canada is closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winter2012 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Sure. My field is condensed matter physics. My proposal was on organic photovoltaics. I think I did a pretty good job putting it together. The location of tenure was also well justified (I think that part is also quite important and some applicants don't give it that much thought). At the time of application I had 6 journal articles (5 first author) and 1 accepted. Also a lot of conference presentations (at least 2 per year) and pretty good work experience from my undergrad. I had received a CGS-D2 during my PhD. I'm not too surpised I didn't get it. It's very competitive and there are people out there in the double digits for 1st author pubs. Its either highly competetive or its poorly funded by the government. It seems to me that it is due to the second reason why you were not selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titration Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 if my letter crossed the border today, I still have chances to get the letter by Monday?! There is no post on monday. Post canada is closed I am in Massachusetts and hoping for a letter on Monday too!!! The US post delivers on Apr 6, 7 and 9th this year. (In the US, there is mail delivery Mon - Sat and no holidays for Easter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowtulip Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I am in Massachusetts and hoping for a letter on Monday too!!! The US post delivers on Apr 6, 7 and 9th this year. (In the US, there is mail delivery Mon - Sat and no holidays for Easter). Wow - I just moved to Washington, and didn't even think to check my mail box on a Saturday down here. I was hoping for a Monday delivery, but that'd be sweet to hear earlier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harpik Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Hey guys, I am in Toronto and got my letter today. I applied for a PDF and got rejected. The letter does not say anything about the IRDF, does that mean I could not get that either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winter2012 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Hey guys, I am in Toronto and got my letter today. I applied for a PDF and got rejected. The letter does not say anything about the IRDF, does that mean I could not get that either? I am sorry to hear about the outcome of your application. The IRDF scholarship is given (according to their definition) to applicants whose application were worth for NSERC PDF award but NSERC did not have enough funds to support for PDF. However, I hope some one in this forum have better answer for your question. I am wondering which field of study were you pusuing during your PhD study? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsolim Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Hey guys, I am in Toronto and got my letter today. I applied for a PDF and got rejected. The letter does not say anything about the IRDF, does that mean I could not get that either? I have similar situation like yours, just got rejection letter with few sentences and no reports of evaluation or anything about a waiting list. This means that, in their opinion our applications were not worth the paper they were printed on, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harpik Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I am sorry to hear about the outcome of your application. The IRDF scholarship is given (according to their definition) to applicants whose application were worth for NSERC PDF award but NSERC did not have enough funds to support for PDF. However, I hope some one in this forum have better answer for your question. I am wondering which field of study were you pusuing during your PhD study? Thanks winter 2012. I am not sad though, as I decided not to pursue a post-doc anyways. I was just hoping that they included some information about the IRDF in the letter (I was looking forward to that). I am doing my PhD in pure math. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harpik Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I have similar situation like yours, just got rejection letter with few sentences and no reports of evaluation or anything about a waiting list. This means that, in their opinion our applications were not worth the paper they were printed on, right? yeah, or the ink it is almost like they are saying "call/e-mail and disturb us to get more information". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsolim Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 yeah, or the ink it is almost like they are saying "call/e-mail and disturb us to get more information". ًًWill definitely disturb them to see what were my weak points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedMeansRunSon Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Hi Everyone, I found out from somebody in my department that I got a CGS-D today. I am at McGill and have not received anything in the mail yet. It was very nice to find this forum and get some information from all of you about what's going on as I was starting to wonder when it was already April and we didn't know yet! Good luck to everyone who is still anxiously waiting for the results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliasg Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Just checked the mail.....I have not receive anything by mail today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmoor Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Has anyone received a PDF award? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliasg Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Hi Everyone, I found out from somebody in my department that I got a CGS-D today. I am at McGill and have not received anything in the mail yet. It was very nice to find this forum and get some information from all of you about what's going on as I was starting to wonder when it was already April and we didn't know yet! Good luck to everyone who is still anxiously waiting for the results! Congratulations man ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmoor Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I got wait listed for PDF, does anyone know what is the possibility of getting an award in June? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmoor Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 And how many people are wait listed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmoor Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I got pre-approved for IRDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sand_bag Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I got wait listed for PDF, does anyone know what is the possibility of getting an award in June? Hi marmoor, I'm in the same situation as you: wait-listed and wondering what my chances are of getting good news in June. I don't recall anyone on this forum saying they got PDF. Anyone? anyone...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmoor Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Hi marmoor, I'm in the same situation as you: wait-listed and wondering what my chances are of getting good news in June. I don't recall anyone on this forum saying they got PDF. Anyone? anyone...? Hi Sandbag, Which university are you from? Is there anyway we could know what is our rank in the waitlist and what is our chances in getting the award? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sand_bag Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Hi Sandbag, Which university are you from? Is there anyway we could know what is our rank in the waitlist and what is our chances in getting the award? I'm from Mcgill. I don't know how to find out our ranking on the wait list. Maybe if you email nserc you'll get lucky... keep me posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmoor Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I'm from Mcgill. I don't know how to find out our ranking on the wait list. Maybe if you email nserc you'll get lucky... keep me posted hehe we are from the same place, I guess they decided to put poor McGill grads in waitlists . I just sent them an email, lets see how it goes, let me know if you get any info on what our acceptance rate is, it seems the waiting game is never over for us!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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