NSERC 2012-2013

[eliasg]

The post man passes few minutes ago.

I receive NSERC letter. It is official. I win the PGS-D3.

Good luck to everyone !

[sand_bag]

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!!!

Yes, I feel like an a$$ complaining about being on the waiting list, but then again, I've been going crazy constantly thinking about getting the result.

This is postdoc purgatory

[bink]

Hey guys, I've been lurking here for quite some time! What a great place. Time to chime in. I got rejected for Vanier yesterday (ranked 116/204 for NSERC). However, a colleague and I both found out today that we got a PGS-D3. We are in experimental psychology (I am neuroscience, he is cognitive science).

I had sent an email to grad studies yesterday inquiring about whether they knew anything about NSERC, and they told me they heard nothing. But they apparently did because they forwarded the results to the various departments, and then my department head notified all the profs. Who then notified me. No actual NSERC letter yet, and I don't expect one until next week because we are in Saskatchewan.

As per pubs: 1 first author in relatively high impact journal, 1 second author, 1 under submission at time of application, 5 published conference abstracts, and I mentioned 3 other manuscripts under preparation.

Congrats to all who won, consolidations to those who didn't, and virtual beer to all of you!

[egolym]

Nobody gets PDF so far?? Sigh........

[yellowtulip]

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...?

Not that I've heard yet!! My fingers crossed

[arcade water]

Waitlisted for PGS-D.

Medical Physics at McGill.

[TakeruK]

Got a letter from NSERC in the mail today, it was dated March 30, and postmarked April 3! CGS-D for Physics/Astronomy, but I will be declining it and taking a PGS-D instead since I'm going out of Canada!

[QueensCS]

Waitlisted for PGS-D.

Medical Physics at McGill.

hi there how do you know that you are waitlisted? is it mentioned in the letter?

[eliasg]

Got a letter from NSERC in the mail today, it was dated March 30, and postmarked April 3! CGS-D for Physics/Astronomy, but I will be declining it and taking a PGS-D instead since I'm going out of Canada!

Thanks man You are giving us a chance for an upgrade to CGS

[eliasg]

Do you think the upgrade goes by each comittee individually or all together ??

[eliasg]

I think this forum is dead !!! :S

[yellowtulip]

Not yet!! Still waiting for someone to get a PDF!

[eliasg]

13 user(s) are reading this topic

2 days ago, it was 110 users (S)

[silicon]

13 user(s) are reading this topic

2 days ago, it was 110 users (S)

15 user(s) are reading this topic

increasing ...... :D

[seebee]

We're up to 17! And I'm still waiting for PDF results, too.

[eliasg]

What do you think the sucess rate will be for PDF this year ??? 10 % ?

[simhod]

I am here and waiting for the PDF letter in US, hopefully today or tomorrow.

[snowshoes]

I think this forum is dead !!! :S

25 user(s) are reading this topic

Nah, people just know they aren't going to hear anything until the long weekend is over... I'm headed to Europe on Thursday for a conference, I'd *love* to have good news before I leave.

[simhod]

25 user(s) are reading this topic

Nah, people just know they aren't going to hear anything until the long weekend is over... I'm headed to Europe on Thursday for a conference, I'd *love* to have good news before I leave.

I leave Wednesday to Europe for a 2-weeks vacation and I need to know my PDF results....

[seebee]

Need is relative. I'm in the US right now, I just negotiated a postdoc position yesterday, I just assumed I didn't have the fellowship for negotiation, now of I get it, it just sweetens the deal.

[gsolim]

What do you think the sucess rate will be for PDF this year ??? 10 % ?

Last year it was around 9%, I guess this year it may go even down due to the budget cuts.

[yellowtulip]

Going up!! 20 user(s) are reading this topic

[yellowtulip]

Need is relative. I'm in the US right now, I just negotiated a postdoc position yesterday, I just assumed I didn't have the fellowship for negotiation, now of I get it, it just sweetens the deal.

How do you plan for it to "sweeten" the deal? If you get the PDF, are you planning to have both your main income and the PDF? Or some sort of top-up? Does your university have a policy on this?

p.s. "Need" isn't all that relative. If we (US PDFs) want the award to be effective April 1st... we need to know soon, or it will be too late (after payroll has gone though) and we'll have to start May 1st

Edited April 6, 2012 by yellowtulip

[snowshoes]

Need is relative. I'm in the US right now, I just negotiated a postdoc position yesterday, I just assumed I didn't have the fellowship for negotiation, now of I get it, it just sweetens the deal.

I have a PhD lined up for September along with the standard meagre salary, so the PGS-D would also make my financial situation a lot better. Luckily my next step in life isn't dependent on my NSERC results - I can see how people in that boat would be very, very anxious right now.

I assumed the PGS-D would be added onto my agreed funding, but I doubt that will happen... my supervisor would probably want the money to go to another student/post-doc in the lab. I'm not sure if I could negotiate more money while one of the PhD students in the lab is only making ~$25k/y.

[ten52145]

Does anyone think that the federal budget severely slashed NSERC's funding? I had a 4.09/4.3 GPA, 2 amazing references(they got me into UWaterloo and UofT computer Science with full funding) and a decent proposal. I'm a bit disappointed I didn't get a PGS-M.