Irish Research Council 2014/2015

santano · 14-07-2014 11:07am

My score is (AHSS) 83.5 and I am on the reserve list.

CD11 · 14-07-2014 11:16am

Seems that you needed to get 86.5% in order to get a conditional offer this year in the AHSS scheme. Would be very interested to hear from people who went from reserve to conditional offer (CONGRATS!), how they scored. I was 2% off which seems so close but in the scheme of the IRC awards it seems like it can come down to a percentage of a percent.

candle_wax · 14-07-2014 4:40pm

LordJimbob wrote: »

I believe it was 88% for receiving an initial offer, and reserve ones are dependant on how many people refuse them, far as I understand.

Letter I got says cut-off for consideration was 86.5 (for AHSS)
I got..... 86.5 :eek:

LordJimbob · 14-07-2014 5:36pm

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

I got my scoring today and missed out by 1%. I would rather miss it by 20% than that.

I assume you are still on the reserve list or did you receive information saying otherwise?

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 14-07-2014 5:56pm

Just received an email a few minutes ago saying I have it! Shocked and delighted!

CD11 · 14-07-2014 6:05pm

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

Just received an email a few minutes ago saying I have it! Shocked and delighted!

Congratulations!

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 14-07-2014 7:45pm

Thanks although reading your previous post I now feel it could be a mistake.

catfips · 14-07-2014 7:47pm

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

Thanks although reading your previous post I now feel it could be a mistake.

Probably just means someone else declined their offer. Don't think it's a mistake.

candle_wax · 15-07-2014 8:52am

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

Thanks although reading your previous post I now feel it could be a mistake.

I felt like that for about a week after I got my offer.
Imposter syndrome at its best! (well, for me at least)

Congrats

catfips · 15-07-2014 2:57pm

candle_wax wrote: »

I felt like that for about a week after I got my offer.
Imposter syndrome at its best! (well, for me at least)

Congrats

They don't give away the awards willy nilly, you'll have deserved it. Just found out today that I missed out on a straight away conditional by .5%, so feel no guilt at all about getting my conditional now.

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 15-07-2014 3:07pm

Forgive the ignorance but what does a conditional award mean? What is the condition that has to be fulfilled?
Not to be to crass about this but when can I expect money in my account. The bank manager will probably die of shock.

catfips · 15-07-2014 4:17pm

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

Forgive the ignorance but what does a conditional award mean? What is the condition that has to be fulfilled?
Not to be to crass about this but when can I expect money in my account. The bank manager will probably die of shock.

It just means that you have to fulfill what they ask for: acceptance of the offer signed off by the university's research office and your supervisor, and your university stamped transcripts of the results you put down on the IRC application form.The scolarship starts in October so I'd say in your bank account (in monthly stipends) by the third week of October. I may sit corrected though.

aidoh · 15-07-2014 4:29pm

To anyone who was awarded the scholarship last year or year before etc....

Once we've sent off our letter of acceptance with the relevant signatures, stamps and transcripts, what happens next?

Will we hear from the IRC again or is it up to us to go to the research office in our university and sort out the next steps ourselves?

Spotfire · 21-07-2014 2:11pm

Has anybody else gone from Reserve to Conditional?

Deadline is this Wednesday...

JervisOak · 21-07-2014 4:21pm

Spotfire wrote: »

Has anybody else gone from Reserve to Conditional?

Deadline is this Wednesday...

The deadline is for all schemes? Any info regarding elevate?

catfips · 21-07-2014 7:19pm

I was given a deadline of July 30th.

LordJimbob · 21-07-2014 7:50pm

I was given a deadline of Weds 23rd, this is for undergrad* application.

Edit: *Postgrad application

catfips · 21-07-2014 10:36pm

LordJimbob wrote: »

I was given a deadline of Weds 23rd, this is for undergrad* application.

Edit: *Postgrad application

Did you get the conditional offer? I remember you said that you hadn't got one.

catfips · 21-07-2014 10:37pm

LordJimbob wrote: »

I was given a deadline of Weds 23rd, this is for undergrad* application.

Edit: *Postgrad application

Did you get the conditional offer? I remember you said that you hadn't got one.

LordJimbob · 21-07-2014 10:56pm

Maybe I misled, I meant the deadline for the reserved applicants to know if they got it or not is the 23rd.

I have not been moved to conditional as of yet. My score was 85% so it's unlikely that it'll trickle down that far I expect!

CD11 · 22-07-2014 8:56am

I am guessing that the scoring moves in .5 steps and presumably for each step (e.g. 85.5%) there will be a number of people with that score. Does anyone have any idea how many people might be on each step? Last I heard the reserve offers were being offered to people at 85.5%. So presumably once the people on that score have been worked through it will move to 85%. I am on 84.5% and if it has yet to reach 85% then its pretty clear it won't come down far enough for me this time. I'm still curious though. Presumably there is also some way of ranking people who all have the same score.. Would it be on their candidate rating or their project score?

Mahatma Geansai · 22-07-2014 9:10am

CD11 wrote: »

I am guessing that the scoring moves in .5 steps and presumably for each step (e.g. 85.5%) there will be a number of people with that score. Does anyone have any idea how many people might be on each step? Last I heard the reserve offers were being offered to people at 85.5%. So presumably once the people on that score have been worked through it will move to 85%. I am on 84.5% and if it has yet to reach 85% then its pretty clear it won't come down far enough for me this time. I'm still curious though. Presumably there is also some way of ranking people who all have the same score.. Would it be on their candidate rating or their project score?

I'm on 85.5 for the STEM stream and I haven't been offered anything.

Spotfire · 22-07-2014 11:10am

Keep us posted Mahatma Geansai

CD11 · 22-07-2014 11:14am

Mahatma Geansai wrote: »

I'm on 85.5 for the STEM stream and I haven't been offered anything.

Sorry to hear that

I know the feeling, I'm definitely missing out this year too. I think someone said for STEM the cut off was a bit higher though? I should have clarified that I'm referred to AHSS when I say the last I knew of was someone on 85.5 being moved to conditional. But presumably there are a number of people on each score.

Mahatma Geansai · 22-07-2014 11:48am

CD11 wrote: »

Sorry to hear that I know the feeling, I'm definitely missing out this year too. I think someone said for STEM the cut off was a bit higher though? I should have clarified that I'm referred to AHSS when I say the last I knew of was someone on 85.5 being moved to conditional. But presumably there are a number of people on each score.

Ah that's good to hear about it being the AHSS scheme. I'd accepted that I wouldn't get funding once I was first placed on the reserve list, but it would have been terrible to know that students with the same score as me had obtained funding.

SNiB · 23-07-2014 3:43pm

Has anyone received confirmation from the IRC that their documents were received (i.e. offer acceptance form, transcripts)?

Does anyone know when we can expect to hear back in terms of being moved from 'Conditional Award' to 'Award Holder'?

Mahatma Geansai · 23-07-2014 7:42pm

Has anyone heard from the IRC yet? Are they only going to email successful applicants?

JervisOak · 24-07-2014 8:15am

How (email, post?) and when have people got scores?

I am on reserve list for the ELEVATE but have not received feedback or any correspondence.

aidoh · 24-07-2014 9:37am

I got mine through the post about 2 weeks ago.

JervisOak · 24-07-2014 9:42am

aidoh wrote: »

I got mine through the post about 2 weeks ago.

Were you a postgraduate or postdoc application?

Spotfire · 24-07-2014 10:55am

Has anybody on the reserve list for the postgrad scheme heard from the IRC?

A_W_P · 24-07-2014 11:55am

I'm on the reserve list for postgrad and still haven't heard anything. The last e-mail we received indicated that we would know one way or another by yesterday. Any thoughts on the delay?

candle_wax · 24-07-2014 12:49pm

SNiB wrote: »

Has anyone received confirmation from the IRC that their documents were received (i.e. offer acceptance form, transcripts)?

Does anyone know when we can expect to hear back in terms of being moved from 'Conditional Award' to 'Award Holder'?

I haven't heard anything back from IRC - I submitted my acceptance form and transcripts just over two weeks ago I think.
I just logged in there to the online application and it still just says "Conditional".

SNiB · 24-07-2014 12:52pm

candle_wax wrote: »

I haven't heard anything back from IRC - I submitted my acceptance form and transcripts just over two weeks ago I think.
I just logged in there to the online application and it still just says "Conditional".

Thanks candle_wax - hopefully we hear soon, I feel like I can't fully relax about it until it's all processed!

candle_wax · 24-07-2014 1:01pm

SNiB wrote: »

Thanks candle_wax - hopefully we hear soon, I feel like I can't fully relax about it until it's all processed!

Oh I know... my transcripts are far from flawless, so I'm really worried they're gonna suddenly go "Eh, hang on, we're giving it to THIS kid?"
:eek:

Also, of course, worried that they got lost in the post. An acknowledgment that they received them woulda been nice.

ringthebells · 24-07-2014 2:07pm

candle_wax wrote: »

Also, of course, worried that they got lost in the post.

I was so freaked about this I paid extra to get proof of postage!

Spotfire · 24-07-2014 4:59pm

A_W_P wrote: »

I'm on the reserve list for postgrad and still haven't heard anything. The last e-mail we received indicated that we would know one way or another by yesterday. Any thoughts on the delay?

Well the IRC are very badly run, so it's probably them just being their typical selves.

They are so possessed with the standards they demand from applicants, yet they themselves are one of the most lax crowds you'll ever deal with....

BTW A_W_P what score are you on?

Spotfire · 24-07-2014 6:19pm

Emails are out now - if you didn't get funding by now then you're out of luck.

aidoh · 24-07-2014 6:30pm

Spotfire wrote: »

IRC funding is a total lottery

:rolleyes:

edit: Only messing Spotfire. Congrats on getting it in the end.

Bablatrice · 25-07-2014 11:04pm

Hi, unfortunately I only made reserve this year. I have heard people talk about having received their scores through the post. I didn't receive anything in the post yet- is anyone in the same boat?

Thanks

ringthebells · 28-07-2014 5:22pm

Have any other reward holders for the postgrad scholarship seen any change reflected in their online account? Mine still says 'conditional award'.

aidoh · 28-07-2014 6:26pm

Nah still nothing. No communication from the IRC yet either apart from the score breakdown.
I assume they'll be in touch soon enough telling us what to do next.

SNiB · 29-07-2014 4:19pm

I haven't heard anything yet either ringthebells and aidoh. I suppose it will take a while for them to process everyone's paperwork. It would be nice to hear sooner rather than later though.

Samhradhs · 02-08-2014 9:47pm

Congrats to all who got the grant.
I've a question.
Hubbie applied last year and missed out. Grand.
This year he applied, but one of his referrees let him down (despite being reminded the day before :-(). So of course it was rejected.
Can he apply ext year or are his two chances finished does anyone know?

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 03-08-2014 4:54pm

Samhradhs wrote: »

Congrats to all who got the grant.
I've a question.
Hubbie applied last year and missed out. Grand.
This year he applied, but one of his referrees let him down (despite being reminded the day before :-(). So of course it was rejected.
Can he apply ext year or are his two chances finished does anyone know?

I was in a similar situation last year with a referee. I was told because the application wasn't fully submitted then it didn't count. I think in order for it to be considered, the application must have been considered by some committee.

SNiB · 06-08-2014 4:56pm

Beginning to get a bit anxious about the fact that I haven't heard anything from IRC since my acceptance form and transcripts were submitted. I checked last years thread and it seemed that people's online profile status changed to 'Award Holder' relatively soon after they submitted.

ringthebells · 06-08-2014 5:08pm

I'm a bit anxious about it too but realistically what reason would there be for a delay in a change in the system other than that they are swamped? Telling myself that anyway!

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 06-08-2014 5:24pm

Has anyone contacted them?

Kavrocks · 06-08-2014 8:36pm

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

Has anyone contacted them?

Yes.

We will update the status of conditional awardees in the coming weeks.

NormalBob Ubiquitypants · 19-08-2014 3:12pm

Phoned the IRC. They said that they are going to update the status next week. Taking longer than expected but if you haven't heard from them then they have no issue with your documentation.

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