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Alright I find this quite stupid. I applied to bursaries at both UW and Laurier. I am eligible for OSAP---not much, but especially because I am one of three people in my family attending post-secondary studies in the next year our income bracket makes us eligible to receive assistance.
Now, my dad works at Laurier, so I get tuition cuts. Understandably, my predicted costs would be lessened that way. Regardless, I was still offered a 2000$ bursary. Waterloo, where I have no relatives working and thus no tuition cuts (and they've got crap scholarships too compared to wlu so that doesn't help either), I am somehow ineligible for entrance bursaries. It makes no sense. Shouldn't they use the same income threshold to determine whether you are eligible for bursaries at all universities?
Frankly, I'm not very impressed with waterloo right now. They're offering me practically nothing to attend there; I just don't get the feeling that they want to attract students (who aren't in cs, math, or eng. of course).
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Redrose27 wrote:Alright I find this quite stupid. I applied to bursaries at both UW and Laurier. I am eligible for OSAP---not much, but especially because I am one of three people in my family attending post-secondary studies in the next year our income bracket makes us eligible to receive assistance.
Now, my dad works at Laurier, so I get tuition cuts. Understandably, my predicted costs would be lessened that way. Regardless, I was still offered a 2000$ bursary. Waterloo, where I have no relatives working and thus no tuition cuts (and they've got crap scholarships too compared to wlu so that doesn't help either), I am somehow ineligible for entrance bursaries. It makes no sense. Shouldn't they use the same income threshold to determine whether you are eligible for bursaries at all universities?
Frankly, I'm not very impressed with waterloo right now. They're offering me practically nothing to attend there; I just don't get the feeling that they want to attract students (who aren't in cs, math, or eng. of course). Hmm i think you should just stick to Laurier because of all the tuition cuts and the bursary you're getting. You're really lucky because of it.
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that's true about the financial options but laurier doesn't really offer much in the programs I'm interested in (i don't think i want to go into DD after all and that was the real program i was considering there)
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does anyone know whether (or how) to appeal bursary decisions? they said they won't reconsider their offers as they've got so many applicants but it just doesn't make sense in my case
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OMG I hate myself for not applying to WLU bursaries
Turns out that I got $4000 UW entrance bursary!
I only applied to UW bursaries because I thought for sure I'd get in.
DA.MN IT
Well, there's something called undergraduate student bursary who have missed the deadline for entrance bursaries..
OMG i would've got so much from WLU too. My average is hovering at 94 and I dont know if im going to get the centennial scholarship. ><
DD
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GGG wrote:OMG I hate myself for not applying to WLU bursaries
Turns out that I got $4000 UW entrance bursary!
I only applied to UW bursaries because I thought for sure I'd get in.
DA.MN IT Contradiction? You could have got $4000 at UW, but you only applied to UW?
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that's awesome...4000 is a lot. if you don't mind saying it (or would prefer to pm maybe?) could you say around what ballpark your parental income was, so i can know a good estimate of how much my parental income was off so that i wouldn't receive any? of course this is totally your decision and i'd respect it if you chose not to say it but still i'm interested in seeing what income range made me somehow ineligible for uw in particular
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centrinoduo wrote:GGG wrote:OMG I hate myself for not applying to WLU bursaries
Turns out that I got $4000 UW entrance bursary!
I only applied to UW bursaries because I thought for sure I'd get in.
DA.MN IT Contradiction? You could have got $4000 at UW, but you only applied to UW? I did get $4000 at UW, and UW was the only uni I applied for bursaries.
DD
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