Talk Academia

Well they didn’t ask me for any ethical clarifications so I guess that’s not a good sign.

I can't imagine how terrifying it would be to be one of the data entry staff. A simple typo or switching two numbers can change someone's life and who knows if it even gets caught.

I'm not sure how they are doing it this year...there are so many questions. They may have a backup where it's auto sorted and allocated and then the borderline ones are looked at again or there could be a second ranking of some sort. Like weighting for certain aspects like profile of professor (I wo...

No, the status changes to ranking way before the email. As I understand, when our proposal submission is complete, the phase becomes 'submission'. Likewise, when evaluation is complete (i. e., ESR is uploaded in our account), the phase will change to 'evaluation'. So, only when we get our final ran...

Some said they even got ranked at the beginning of January. Yeah, I remember reading through all of that a few months ago. If I remember, there didn't seem to be that much of a rhyme or reason to it. I don't think any of us had evaluation before today, right? Let alone ranking... Please correct me ...

Mine just changed to "Evaluation" as well. This is a little bit terrifying. I wish we could figure out more from the meta-data.

What input, if any, did your proposed research mentor have in your proposal? Did he or she read it, give comments, suggestions etc Mine was more of a couple Skype convos about the topic. My potential supervisor then went and did some backend with finding people that would want to help with the prac...

There is a big part of me that would rather check this group than my email.

Mine is the same (with only one proposal). I wonder if that means that we should expect to hear on Feb 12th. I don't have high hopes and already took a lecturer position so I don't know why I even keep checking this. :lol: I guess I really did just like the project I proposed, but my entire thing wa...