Cancomm

I'm in Ottawa (six blocks from the SSHRC office) and have an early mail delivery. Probably one of the first to receive their letter because of this.

First! Lurker here who wanted to say thanks to the community for helping work myself into a frenzy waiting for my letter. My letter just arrived. I was successful with a score of 18.5 out of 30. Now to try and anticipate some of the questions some of you might be interested in: According to the letter there were 1912 applications of which 955 were successful. I applied to the committee that includes communications, though, I forget the number/title of that committee. I am finishing my second second year at Carleton in communications. I have a handful of conference presentations, mostly at student conferences. No publications. Lots of TA and RA experience. Strong enough grades (all a and a+ in grad school). I also had a really strong proposal. We have a CRC in our department who has sat on the selection committee in previous years who helped me revise my proposal and wrote one of my letters for me (she is AWESOME and might get a present). I had an OGS in my MA and have some good awards from my school, though, I had never had a sshrc go past my department before and have no other external awards in my phd. There is also a significant degree of luck in these things (OGS and sshrc have gone the other way for me the last couple years). Luck might even be the big one, so good luck to you all!