2021 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (HE-MSCA-PF-2021)

[Aio]

Just to pass the time, I am only thinking loud here: Things seem to be different this time around, so let's forget previous years.
This year, people say that they pass massively from evaluation to ranking within 5 minutes. So let's say that this is the time needed for the EC ITs to pass each applicant's results into the system. 5 minutes per applicant for the total of 8356 proposals requires 41.780 minutes. Every working day (8 hours) has 480 minutes. We divide 41.780/480, 87 days are required if it was to be done by one person. Let's say now that the EC has 20 ITs working exclusively on that. Each will need 4,35 working days to finish up their pile. Let's round it up to 5 days. If yesterday was the first day, the 20 ITs will finish the upload of the results on Monday.
Now, as far as the priority is concerned, they may start at the top of the scores (descending) or at the bottom of scores (ascending), but they may also pass the results per panel (as it was suggested), or even per country, or a combination of some of the above.
I think that at this point we can only assume that people with a score over 70% will be put into "RANKING" (last year these were more or less 70% of the applicants), people with a score below 70% will be put into "EVALUATION" and stay there (last year these were more or less 30% of the applicants) and those who currently appear in "SUBMISSION" will just have to wait until their information goes up onto the system.
According to this line of thinking we shouldn't wait for results before the end of next week, which is 2-3 days prior to the official deadline.

P.S. Correct me if I'm wrong. After all, I am in SOC panel

I am also in SOC panel and I am in "evaluation" status. So I am almost certainly in the <70% range?

[Steminist]

Ranking means, at least in reserve list as per my experience.

Last year I was in ranking and I was not in the reserve list. And a lot of people were like me.

[lida21]

Ranking means, at least in reserve list as per my experience.

Last year I was in ranking and I was not in the reserve list. And a lot of people were like me.

I confirm this also from my own experience. Ranking does not mean reserve list

[althusser]

Just to pass the time, I am only thinking loud here: Things seem to be different this time around, so let's forget previous years.
This year, people say that they pass massively from evaluation to ranking within 5 minutes. So let's say that this is the time needed for the EC ITs to pass each applicant's results into the system. 5 minutes per applicant for the total of 8356 proposals requires 41.780 minutes. Every working day (8 hours) has 480 minutes. We divide 41.780/480, 87 days are required if it was to be done by one person. Let's say now that the EC has 20 ITs working exclusively on that. Each will need 4,35 working days to finish up their pile. Let's round it up to 5 days. If yesterday was the first day, the 20 ITs will finish the upload of the results on Monday.
Now, as far as the priority is concerned, they may start at the top of the scores (descending) or at the bottom of scores (ascending), but they may also pass the results per panel (as it was suggested), or even per country, or a combination of some of the above.
I think that at this point we can only assume that people with a score over 70% will be put into "RANKING" (last year these were more or less 70% of the applicants), people with a score below 70% will be put into "EVALUATION" and stay there (last year these were more or less 30% of the applicants) and those who currently appear in "SUBMISSION" will just have to wait until their information goes up onto the system.
According to this line of thinking we shouldn't wait for results before the end of next week, which is 2-3 days prior to the official deadline.

P.S. Correct me if I'm wrong. After all, I am in SOC panel

I am also in SOC panel and I am in "evaluation" status. So I am almost certainly in the <70% range?

Unless it changes in the following days! Frankly, Aio, I can only guess from what other people say and from their experience of previous years.
Or it is all totally random and we are just losing our time, frankly I don't know. I didn't mean to heart your feelings. I would suggest not to lose hope just yet.

[cgchem]

Hi guys!
I applied last year. For me, I scored a little over 70 and the status changed to ranking about 2-3 hours after the first person here reported the change.
My application now (second time) it is also ranking but I don't know when it changed nor do I know if it means anything given that this year everything seems a bit different.

[althusser]

Just to pass the time, I am only thinking loud here: Things seem to be different this time around, so let's forget previous years.
This year, people say that they pass massively from evaluation to ranking within 5 minutes. So let's say that this is the time needed for the EC ITs to pass each applicant's results into the system. 5 minutes per applicant for the total of 8356 proposals requires 41.780 minutes. Every working day (8 hours) has 480 minutes. We divide 41.780/480, 87 days are required if it was to be done by one person. Let's say now that the EC has 20 ITs working exclusively on that. Each will need 4,35 working days to finish up their pile. Let's round it up to 5 days. If yesterday was the first day, the 20 ITs will finish the upload of the results on Monday.
Now, as far as the priority is concerned, they may start at the top of the scores (descending) or at the bottom of scores (ascending), but they may also pass the results per panel (as it was suggested), or even per country, or a combination of some of the above.
I think that at this point we can only assume that people with a score over 70% will be put into "RANKING" (last year these were more or less 70% of the applicants), people with a score below 70% will be put into "EVALUATION" and stay there (last year these were more or less 30% of the applicants) and those who currently appear in "SUBMISSION" will just have to wait until their information goes up onto the system.
According to this line of thinking we shouldn't wait for results before the end of next week, which is 2-3 days prior to the official deadline.

P.S. Correct me if I'm wrong. After all, I am in SOC panel

I am also in SOC panel and I am in "evaluation" status. So I am almost certainly in the <70% range?

Unless it changes in the following days! Frankly, Aio, I can only guess from what other people say and from their experience of previous years.
Or it is all totally random and we are just losing our time, frankly I don't know. I didn't mean to heart your feelings. I would suggest not to lose hope just yet.

*hurt

[triad_Mon]

Just to pass the time, I am only thinking loud here: Things seem to be different this time around, so let's forget previous years.
This year, people say that they pass massively from evaluation to ranking within 5 minutes. So let's say that this is the time needed for the EC ITs to pass each applicant's results into the system. 5 minutes per applicant for the total of 8356 proposals requires 41.780 minutes. Every working day (8 hours) has 480 minutes. We divide 41.780/480, 87 days are required if it was to be done by one person. Let's say now that the EC has 20 ITs working exclusively on that. Each will need 4,35 working days to finish up their pile. Let's round it up to 5 days. If yesterday was the first day, the 20 ITs will finish the upload of the results on Monday.
Now, as far as the priority is concerned, they may start at the top of the scores (descending) or at the bottom of scores (ascending), but they may also pass the results per panel (as it was suggested), or even per country, or a combination of some of the above.
I think that at this point we can only assume that people with a score over 70% will be put into "RANKING" (last year these were more or less 70% of the applicants), people with a score below 70% will be put into "EVALUATION" and stay there (last year these were more or less 30% of the applicants) and those who currently appear in "SUBMISSION" will just have to wait until their information goes up onto the system.
According to this line of thinking we shouldn't wait for results before the end of next week, which is 2-3 days prior to the official deadline.

P.S. Correct me if I'm wrong. After all, I am in SOC panel

I am also between Monday 7th and Friday 11th March.

[horizon]

Ranking means, at least in reserve list as per my experience.

Last year I was in ranking and I was not in the reserve list. And a lot of people were like me.

True. I am feeling nostalgic about Dreamer. Such an amazing guy. I kind of miss him here.

Last year I stayed in evaluation and was at 84.4

[dw2022]

Just to pass the time, I am only thinking loud here: Things seem to be different this time around, so let's forget previous years.
This year, people say that they pass massively from evaluation to ranking within 5 minutes. So let's say that this is the time needed for the EC ITs to pass each applicant's results into the system. 5 minutes per applicant for the total of 8356 proposals requires 41.780 minutes. Every working day (8 hours) has 480 minutes. We divide 41.780/480, 87 days are required if it was to be done by one person. Let's say now that the EC has 20 ITs working exclusively on that. Each will need 4,35 working days to finish up their pile. Let's round it up to 5 days. If yesterday was the first day, the 20 ITs will finish the upload of the results on Monday.
Now, as far as the priority is concerned, they may start at the top of the scores (descending) or at the bottom of scores (ascending), but they may also pass the results per panel (as it was suggested), or even per country, or a combination of some of the above.
I think that at this point we can only assume that people with a score over 70% will be put into "RANKING" (last year these were more or less 70% of the applicants), people with a score below 70% will be put into "EVALUATION" and stay there (last year these were more or less 30% of the applicants) and those who currently appear in "SUBMISSION" will just have to wait until their information goes up onto the system.
According to this line of thinking we shouldn't wait for results before the end of next week, which is 2-3 days prior to the official deadline.

P.S. Correct me if I'm wrong. After all, I am in SOC panel

cool analysis!!
Some inspiration from yours (also SOC, EF):
step-1, build a logistic regression model,
a full model would be DV - funded or not (1- y, 0- n), IV1 - ranking or not (1- y, 0-n), IV2 - absolute timing of turning into ranking (put the first post for phase change as time 0), IV-3 time taken from evaluation to ranking, IV-4 panel risk (given the past cut-off value of panels), IV-5 times of submission, IV-6 xxx, etc, and all the interactions
step-2, collect data from past posts and organize
step-3, run the models combined with cross-validations/model comparison (i.e. compare the full model with a simpler model with less IV)/etc.

Expected output: a model that explains the data best, IVs that (might) significantly contribute to the predictions

[UKR]

True researcher.

Just to pass the time, I am only thinking loud here: Things seem to be different this time around, so let's forget previous years.
This year, people say that they pass massively from evaluation to ranking within 5 minutes. So let's say that this is the time needed for the EC ITs to pass each applicant's results into the system. 5 minutes per applicant for the total of 8356 proposals requires 41.780 minutes. Every working day (8 hours) has 480 minutes. We divide 41.780/480, 87 days are required if it was to be done by one person. Let's say now that the EC has 20 ITs working exclusively on that. Each will need 4,35 working days to finish up their pile. Let's round it up to 5 days. If yesterday was the first day, the 20 ITs will finish the upload of the results on Monday.
Now, as far as the priority is concerned, they may start at the top of the scores (descending) or at the bottom of scores (ascending), but they may also pass the results per panel (as it was suggested), or even per country, or a combination of some of the above.
I think that at this point we can only assume that people with a score over 70% will be put into "RANKING" (last year these were more or less 70% of the applicants), people with a score below 70% will be put into "EVALUATION" and stay there (last year these were more or less 30% of the applicants) and those who currently appear in "SUBMISSION" will just have to wait until their information goes up onto the system.
According to this line of thinking we shouldn't wait for results before the end of next week, which is 2-3 days prior to the official deadline.

P.S. Correct me if I'm wrong. After all, I am in SOC panel

cool analysis!!
Some inspiration from yours (also SOC, EF):
step-1, build a logistic regression model,
a full model would be DV - funded or not (1- y, 0- n), IV1 - ranking or not (1- y, 0-n), IV2 - absolute timing of turning into ranking (put the first post for phase change as time 0), IV-3 time taken from evaluation to ranking, IV-4 panel risk (given the past cut-off value of panels), IV-5 times of submission, IV-6 xxx, etc, and all the interactions
step-2, collect data from past posts and organize
step-3, run the models combined with cross-validations/model comparison (i.e. compare the full model with a simpler model with less IV)/etc.

Expected output: a model that explains the data best, IVs that (might) significantly contribute to the predictions