Hi!I was wondering about admission scholarships… which marks do they look at? You see, I took some Grade 12 courses in Grade 11, and I did not do that well in some of them (mid 80s) .. so I was hoping that the top 6 marks including second semester midterm is what they look at for admission scholarships.It says on the website that they look at the marks of admission and do not look at final marks.Does that mean that they look at only first semester marks, or also second semester midterm marks? Thanks! 🙂
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hey there,
admission scholarship info is here and all the info you could ever want about all the application and non-application and faculty-specific and college-specific scholarships is here. the gist of it is that you get $2000 if you have over a 92% automatically. If you’re under that, you may or may not get any amount under that – and there are many other scholarships you can apply to, both before and once you’re attending the university.
basically, scholarship decisions are made based on the marks they use to consider you for admission, which is your six best Grade 12 U/M courses (that’s university-level and mixed, if you’re a non-Ontarian), including required courses. If you completed a grade 12 course in grade 11, they’ll still be looking at those, but yeah, they’ll only be looking at the top six grade 12-level courses, so don’t worry.
about the final marks they look it, basically, the final offer is made in mid-may – so if you completely fail all your courses after may, yeah, they might take issue with that, but may is basically the last time they’ll be looking at your transcript and making a final decision.
all in all, it’s mostly a non-stressful, pain-free process and as long as you keep working as hard as you have been (i know how hard it is okay trust me June exams are Satan’s gift to teenagers), you should be at university with probably some amount of financial aid by september!
hope that helps,
aska