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According to Waterloo's website, their President’s Scholarship of Distinction (entrance scholarship for Early May admission average of 95%+) includes:
$2,000 Entrance Scholarship;
$1,500 International Experience Award* or;
$1,500 Research Award*, or both
*Note: The International Experience Award and/or Research Award are available in your upper years if you choose to claim them and if you complete your first year with at least an 80% average. The International Experience Award is available only to Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
What this sounds like to me is that you really only get $2000, which is the same amount as the President’s Scholarship of $2000 for an average of 90% to 94.9%.
So...the scholarship isn't renewable (in the traditional sense) and there isn't even much of an incentive to push for a 95%+ average? Does anyone have any additional information or personal experience stories they can share with me about this scholarship?
Thanks!
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You're exactly right, Waterloo scholarships suck. I was offered the President’s Scholarship of Distinction and pretty much all you get it what you outlined and you get invited to a fancy dinner with the President of the university.
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lol western gives $10 000 (over 4 years) for 94+ avg. but 95 for science, which really suks because im most likely going their for science and i have a good shot at 94 avg but not 95.
ya waterloo scholarship does seem a little lame
does anyone know when all of the scholarships that are automatically awarded (the ones in the back of Macleans magazine) are actually given out????
UWO Biomed/Ivey '12
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At Western, automatic scholarships are given out in January and applied to your tuition balance. If it's over your tuition balance, they will write you a cheque.
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yeah waterloo gives out the worst scholarships of the universities i applied to. I think it's because they realize their math/compsci programs will draw in more than enough people that they don't need to offer beyond bare minimum scholarships for other programs. I mean it's pretty ridiculous. the math department has scholarships in the tens of thousands, and the science department has like a 1000 one for physics only. I wish they offered better ones like uwo and ottawa (and carleton) do 
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duckyyy wrote:At Western, automatic scholarships are given out in January and applied to your tuition balance. If it's over your tuition balance, they will write you a cheque. thx, i wasnt aware of the timing, so what is a persons chance of getting one? most of the say "academic excellence" and over 85% avg. mroe than half of western has over 85% avg. so is it the luck of a draw?? since no applications are needed???
UWO Biomed/Ivey '12
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does anyone know any faculty specific scholarships at waterloo....esp. for the faculty of mathematics?
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^ Sweet user name. I don't even had a chance at any of those scholarships so its not a big deal to me when picking university
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1 to cos x: if i get on top of u we can have sec x wrote:does anyone know any faculty specific scholarships at waterloo....esp. for the faculty of mathematics? mathematics, compsci, and eng have huge scholarships. it's all on their prospectives page
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ruroken wrote:According to Waterloo's website, their President’s Scholarship of Distinction (entrance scholarship for Early May admission average of 95%+) includes:
$2,000 Entrance Scholarship;
$1,500 International Experience Award* or;
$1,500 Research Award*, or both
*Note: The International Experience Award and/or Research Award are available in your upper years if you choose to claim them and if you complete your first year with at least an 80% average. The International Experience Award is available only to Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
What this sounds like to me is that you really only get $2000, which is the same amount as the President’s Scholarship of $2000 for an average of 90% to 94.9%.
So...the scholarship isn't renewable (in the traditional sense) and there isn't even much of an incentive to push for a 95%+ average? Does anyone have any additional information or personal experience stories they can share with me about this scholarship?
Thanks! There's too many incoming students with 95%+ in UW. So you're right, it's basically a $2000 scholarship unless you can do a study/work term abroad (somewhat likely) or get a research position (not very likely).
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I'm new to this forum stuff. Anyways i was going into architecture do u think it is wise, in the sense of future job opportunities. Also it is offered like at Waterloo and Ryerson....so. Thks
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I was wondering the exact same thing as the topic creator. Anything over 90% is pretty much the same scholarship, I believe. Of course, you might want to get a higher average for other scholarships.
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