Your application for a Major Admission Award is due in the Student Awards Office no later than the 1st of December!
And yes, we will accept courier packages.
Students who demonstrate superior academic ability, original and creative thinking, involvement in school or community activities, and proven leadership qualities can apply for a Major Admission Award. Financial need is also a consideration for some of our Major Admission Awards.
The six specific major admission awards are:
Chancellor’s Scholarship (high school nomination required)
D&R Sobey Atlantic Scholarship (for those wishing to study Commerce from the Atlantic provinces)
Chernoff Family Award (if you live in a rural or remote area of Canada and demonstrate financial need)
Dr. Irish May Marsh Memorial Award (Ontario residents only, demonstrating financial need)
Bank of Montreal Award (Canada-wide, demonstrating financial need)
Melvin R. Goodes Entrance Award (grads of Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario and demonstrating financial need)
* Financial Information must be submitted if applying for a Chernoff Family Award, Dr. Iris May Marsh Memorial Award, Bank of Montreal Award and/or the Melvin R. Goodes Entrance Award. Financial information is to be submitted on the Admission Bursary application. The online Admission Bursary application is available on the Student Awards web site. (You must have your OUAC Reference Number to access the on-line admission bursary application). Admission Bursary application must also be submitted by December 1st to be considered for these awards.
If you have any questions or concerns, please visit our website: www.queensu.ca/registrar/awards or contact us directly at entrance@queensu.ca Have a great day and we look forward to reviewing your application,
This week, our Fine Art program drew a lot of attention in the London area with particular interest at St. Mary’s High School in Woodstock and at London South Secondary School. For more information on the Bachelor of Fine Art, visit www.queensu.ca/art/programs_artf.html for a thorough description. Portfolio details can be found online at www.queensu.ca/art/pdf/portfolioPage_091015.pdf.
Queen’s is a great place to study if you are an aspiring artist: we even have a student-run art gallery located right within Stauffer Library! Union Gallery (uniongallery.queensu.ca) provides a unique venue for student artists to display their creativity, and occasionally hosts exhibits from professional artists with outstanding international portfolios. For one of my courses in environmental science, I wrote about an exhibit that focused on consumption patterns and climate change. The centerpiece of the gallery at the time was a massive, stunning pillar made from dozens of laundry detergent bottles. I assure you, it is very difficult to walk past Union Gallery without feeling inclined to check out the current artwork!
I also recommend visiting the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (www.aeac.ca), one of the largest galleries in Ontario and conveniently located on the Queen’s campus. With more than 14,000 historical and contemporary pieces in the permanent collection, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has gained a reputation related to its diversity and also for housing two of only six Canadian Rembrandts.
On another note, I want to say a specific thank you to the great students and guidance staff at Simcoe Composite School, London Central Secondary School, Catholic Central Secondary School, St. Anne’s Catholic Secondary School (don’t forget to update everyone who missed my visit in favor of their field trip!), Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School, AB Lucas Secondary School, and Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School.
For all of the students I have met this fall, I have been impressed both with the thoughtfulness of your questions and the extent of your knowledge of our varsity athletics! Stay up to date with university news by checking our website and blog, and of course please email or phone us with any questions you may have.
I just had the opportunity to spend the weekend participating in a weekend full of Queen’s cheer. I want to take this opportunity to let you know that Queen’s was able to bring home not one, but TWO Ontario Championships this weekend!!
Congratulations go out to our Golden Gaels Football team who defeated the University of Western Ontario’s Mustangs in an absolute THRILLER 43-39. I hope some of you caught the game on TV as this game might be one of the best you will ever see between two of Canada’s best teams.
Congratulations also go out to the Queen’s Mens Rugby team who defeated the University of Western Ontario in another thriller 23-19. Queen’s was behind Western for a good part of the game and then pulled ahead in the second half. UWO put a ton of pressure on the Gaels in the final five minutes, but our defense held strong and Queen’s took the championship!
I know many of you might be wondering about what Athletics and Recreation are like here at Queen’s. We are on the verge of getting our brand new Queen’s Centre up and running. Within the Queen’s Centre, our new Aquatic Centre and Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC) will be the centrepiece for athletics. You can find more information about the ARC by visiting www.gogaelsgo.com or better yet, check out this video:
I have a couple shoutouts to send out here, but first I’d like to address one issue that a lot of students have been asking me about. I can tell many of you are starting to get your OUAC Pin numbers because there seems to be a rumour out there that if you don’t list Queen’s as your first choice overall, we won’t consider you for a spot here.
That rumour is a complete myth. Obviously, it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside if you do have us as your first choice, however we will treat your application the exact same if you have us first or fifteenth. Also, you should know that we will consider ALL applications we receive from you. That means if you apply to two or three programs, you will be considered for each of them and that you may end up with three offers of admission at the end of the day. Obviously, you can only accept one offer later on, but at least you have that flexibility.
I would like to take this chance to give a few shoutouts to some of the awesome schools I visited in the past little while.
In particular, I would like to say hello to all those I spoke to at: Beaverbrae in Kenora,
St. Thomas Aquinas in Russell,
Arnprior District High School,
St. John in Perth,
Earl of March in Kanata,
Bishop Smith in Pembroke, Opeongo High near Douglas,
Earl Haig Secondary in Toronto,
Cobourg DCI East AND West,
Regiopolis Notre Dame right here in Kingston and last but not least,
Mackenzie High in Deep River (my old stomping grounds!).
I know there are many other schools that I visited, and of course I want to say hello and thanks to each of you for making my visits so much fun and being so welcoming!
I am happy to let you know that the admission policy regarding how we will treat repeated courses when calculating admission averages has changed from previous years. In the past, how we would treat a repeated course would depend on which program you were applying to. For most programs, we would take the higher of the repeated grades. The two exceptions to that rule were our Commerce and Engineering programs. For those two programs, the grades obtained in repeated prerequisite courses would be averaged over all repeats. This is what we DID… up til now!
Our new policy is the same across all programs – we will now take the highest grade for ANY repeated course used in the average calculation, regardless of the program you are interested in. This means the policy has changed for Commerce and Engineering.
We think this policy is fair as all of our programs now treat repeated courses in an equitable manner.
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