Western's Admission Scholarship

Eligibility

• You must meet the admission conditions as specified in your offer package.
• You must be applying for admission directly from secondary school to be eligible for an Admission Scholarship. Generally, students who have attended a post-secondary institution, or students who attended a post-secondary institution and then returned to secondary school, are not eligible. Please direct any questions regarding scholarship eligibility for your specific situation to 519-661-2100
• Generally home-schooled applicants are not eligible for consideration for admission scholarships.
• You must be registered for full-time studies (minimum 3.5 courses) at main campus to be eligible. If you enrol in a part-time course load, reduce your enrolment to part-time or withdraw from the academic year, you will not be eligible to keep your admission scholarship.
• The final admission average calculation for 101 applicants includes prerequisite courses for the student’s selected program.
• Admission averages are NOT rounded to the nearest whole percentage for admission scholarship consideration.
• Western will determine averages for applicants who are not studying in a Canadian secondary school curriculum based on curriculum, grading practices, and grading scale interpretation.
• Optional Study Abroad funding:
  • If you do not pursue a study abroad experience, the study abroad portion of the scholarship funding is forfeited.
  • Eligible students can receive an International Learning Award in addition to the optional study abroad funding offered as part of the Admission Scholarship funding.
  • You must complete an eligible international experience to claim the funding.
  • To claim the study abroad funding you must submit an International Experience Awards Application available through the Western International - International Learning website to notify our office of your travel plans.
• Admission Scholarships cannot be deferred.
• Students taking secondary school courses during the summer prior to attending Western, that may affect their scholarship eligibility, must ensure that their final summer school grades are received by the Admissions office by August 31st, prior to the beginning of their first year at Western. It is the student’s responsibility to verify that their high school has submitted all final grades to the Admissions office. Changes and appeals related to admission scholarship eligibility will not be considered after August 31st.
• Students eligible for a Western Scholarship of Distinction or a Western Admission Scholarship will be sent notification to their @uwo.ca email account in late August.
• Admission scholarships are not confirmed until after the first installment of fees are due, therefore admission scholarships cannot be deducted from the first installment of fees (see note for exception for OSAP recipients)*. Once the scholarship is confirmed, it will be applied directly to the fee account before the end of September, and can be used toward the second installment of fees. If the application of the scholarship results in a credit on the fee account, a refund will be issued to the student in early-mid November via cheque or direct deposit to their bank account (if the student has enrolled in this option). Students should enrol in direct deposit through their Student Center account. Once logged in they should click on “Enrol in Direct Deposit” in the Finances section and input their banking information.

About Company

We deliver ‘The Western Experience’, an exemplary learning experience that engages the best and brightest people challenging them to meet ever-higher standards in the classroom and beyond. We inform every dimension of a student – intellectual, social, cultural as well as physical. From our home in London, Ont., Canada, outward across every continent, Western prepares future leaders to succeed. In 1916, the current campus was purchased from the Kingsmill family, and in 1923 the university was renamed The University of Western Ontario.

Since that first class graduated in 1883, the university has become a vibrant centre of learning. Through 12 faculties and three affiliated university colleges, Western today offers its 36,000-plus students more than 400 specializations, majors and minors. It was at Western where Sir Frederick Banting rose from a restless sleep in 1920 and wrote out 25 words that led to his discovery of insulin. It was at Western where Canada’s first French Immersion program was established at Trois-Pistoles, Québec, in 1932 – a program that continues today. It was at Western where researchers led by Ivan Smith developed the world’s first ‘cobalt bomb’ to treat cancer in 1951, increasing the cure rate for cervical cancer to 75 per cent from 25 per cent.

Founded in 1878, Western today ranks among Canada's top-10 research universities and is recognized for delivering an academic experience second to none. Our dynamic campus community is characterized by an expanding array of opportunities for intellectual, social and cultural growth, and a reputation for attracting and developing leaders—faculty, students, staff and alumni—who make a difference at the local, national and global level. I invite you to explore my website—and those sites of my senior administrative team—to familiarize yourself with all we do and aspire to achieve at Western.