fmlfmlfml Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) For those who are as impatient as I am... Last year, SSHRC mailed out results on Wednesday, April 26th. So I think we can probably expect them to be mailed out sometime this week. Edited April 23, 2018 by fmlfmlfml grammar UnlikelyGrad4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YuzuCat Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 On 4/19/2018 at 2:53 AM, Plunk said: Hey everyone! I emailed SSHRC a few weeks ago and this is what they said: "The results will be mailed the last week of April 2018 by mail only". So guess everyone should double check what address they wrote on the application! Good luck everyone! Thanks for doing this! Really appreciate it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyPugLady Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Man, I feel like such a pest asking the graduate services at my school - but I seriously gotta know as soon as I can as a job offer (full-time in the public service) is contingent on whether or not I win SSHRC. It's already a bust for Vanier since I got waitlisted, but there's still restrictions on work should I win the SSHRC. Ugh. :( TBay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainDays Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I know. This waiting is crazy. Looking back through several years I think the earliest we could expect results (in the form of early notification directly from our universities) would be hearing back Weds, Thurs or Fri of this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimBob1 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Out of curiosity, for those of you who were looking to the Michael Smith application as an indication of results . . . Are you looking directly below the "New Application" itself on the first page that comes up, or are you taking as an indicator whether or not it comes up after clicking on that link? Thanks for the clarification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NFreckle Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Re: the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements "workaround"-- I believe award winners must formally accept their award before anything is set into motion. So I wouldn't pay attention to whether one has access to the option or not... [*Dying to check but resisting*] high_hopes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataCrusader Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 For people in the past (or from this cycle perhaps) who heard news pre-SSHRC letter from your grad studies office, did you contact the office directly or did they initiate contact with you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyPugLady Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 29 minutes ago, DataCrusader said: For people in the past (or from this cycle perhaps) who heard news pre-SSHRC letter from your grad studies office, did you contact the office directly or did they initiate contact with you? I was in contact with people at Carleton. The people seem to be nicer to doctoral students than MAs. But keep in mind they just recovered from a strike like a month ago. The contact person said that I would likely know the results beforehand before they do. So at this point I will just stop asking them and be patient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimBob1 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 6 hours ago, JimBob1 said: Out of curiosity, for those of you who were looking to the Michael Smith application as an indication of results . . . Are you looking directly below the "New Application" itself on the first page that comes up, or are you taking as an indicator whether or not it comes up after clicking on that link? Thanks for the clarification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainDays Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 I haven't heard back from SSHRC yet but am curious - does anyone know how successful letters are worded at the beginning? Do they begin with a "we are pleased to inform you..." or a "congratulations..." and what does an unsuccessful letter begin with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lore Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 39 minutes ago, RainDays said: I haven't heard back from SSHRC yet but am curious - does anyone know how successful letters are worded at the beginning? Do they begin with a "we are pleased to inform you..." or a "congratulations..." and what does an unsuccessful letter begin with? Haha, good, keeping the physical proof of my failure last year is good for something. So, unsuccessful (but waitlist) letter starts like: Dear NAME: I am writing on behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to advise you of the outcome of your application to the 2017 Doctoral Awards competition. I regret to inform your that your application was not among those award funding this year's competition. Although the Council is not able to offer you an award at this time, your application was deemed of high enough quality for your name to be placed on a waiting list... blah blah blah information about scoring/my score Gradstudentforlife and UnlikelyGrad4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysmom Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Does anyone know if institutions know your results yet? ?? Will we know when SSHRC mails the letters? I haven't seen any tweets yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmlfmlfml Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 2 hours ago, Jaysmom said: Does anyone know if institutions know your results yet? ?? Will we know when SSHRC mails the letters? I haven't seen any tweets yet! Not sure about institutions, but SSHRC usually tweets when the results are mailed. Last year, that was on Wednesday, April 26th (at precisely 2:10 PM, haha) - so might be today or tomorrow. PsychBoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychBoy Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 9 hours ago, RainDays said: I haven't heard back from SSHRC yet but am curious - does anyone know how successful letters are worded at the beginning? Do they begin with a "we are pleased to inform you..." or a "congratulations..." and what does an unsuccessful letter begin with? Don't know if it's totally the same, but my Vanier letter starts like this: Dear X: I am pleased to inform you that you have been selected as one of the recipients of the 2017-2018 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Piagetsky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainDays Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 11 hours ago, lore said: Haha, good, keeping the physical proof of my failure last year is good for something. So, unsuccessful (but waitlist) letter starts like: Dear NAME: I am writing on behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to advise you of the outcome of your application to the 2017 Doctoral Awards competition. I regret to inform your that your application was not among those award funding this year's competition. Although the Council is not able to offer you an award at this time, your application was deemed of high enough quality for your name to be placed on a waiting list... blah blah blah information about scoring/my score Thanks for this! I am trying to mentally prepare for a rejection and knowing what they might say in advance helps a lot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBay Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 There are only 3 mail days left in April, so hopefully if we are really supposed to receive our letters by the end of month, they would go out by today. I think it can take up to a week for delivery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elodie Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 25 minutes ago, TBay said: There are only 3 mail days left in April, so hopefully if we are really supposed to receive our letters by the end of month, they would go out by today. I think it can take up to a week for delivery. Last year my letter didn't arrive until May 5th (Toronto), so I wouldn't get your hopes up on them going out today. They only claim that they are mailed in late April, not received (unfortunately for us). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBay Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 37 minutes ago, elodie said: Last year my letter didn't arrive until May 5th (Toronto), so I wouldn't get your hopes up on them going out today. They only claim that they are mailed in late April, not received (unfortunately for us). That's what I was thinking. So it could be mailed as late as Monday the 30th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FacelessMage Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 8 hours ago, PsychBoy said: Don't know if it's totally the same, but my Vanier letter starts like this: Dear X: I am pleased to inform you that you have been selected as one of the recipients of the 2017-2018 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). They're similar although the SSHRC doctoral awards start with a whole blurb about how they've completed the assessment of your application and they are pleased to tell you that you were successful (and get funding). TBay and PsychBoy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindEnergyGuy Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Results will be mailed tomorrow. Good luck everyone. Cha.rlotte, PsychBoy, UnlikelyGrad4 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyPugLady Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 16 minutes ago, WindEnergyGuy said: Results will be mailed tomorrow. Good luck everyone. Thanks for this! I guess we'll be getting the results next week then... WindEnergyGuy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Rene Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Final Friday in April, just like last year. Anyone else away from home for an extended period? I won't see my mailbox again until mid-August, likely have to write to my FGS research office to voluntarily seek out my rejection, lol. I hope they put these past 4 months to good use!! Good luck everyone! PsychBoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turkergirl Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 (edited) How is it that SSHRC has just sent out the results today, but some applicants have already heard the results...? Or were these just the results for the Vanier scholarship? Edited April 26, 2018 by turkergirl I added more detail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themoon Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Have people heard today? It looks like they won't mail the official letters out until tomorrow. It's possible that students are hearing from their institutions because they often get it a day before or the day letters are sent out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themoon Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 52 minutes ago, turkergirl said: How is it that SSHRC has just sent out the results today, but some applicants have already heard the results...? Or were these just the results for the Vanier scholarship? It's possible that you are referring to both MA CGS's and Vanier results since they are already sent out. I wouldn't be surprised if applicants start hearing tomorrow from their institutions as in the past, the institutions might have them before the letters actually end up at your door, but who knows really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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