Awards & Financial Aid

University of Winnipeg Entrance Scholarships

Major Entrance Scholarships

Alumni Entrance Scholarship Program (AESP)

Criteria:

1. High academic standing and promise.
2. Noteworthy participation in extra-curricular activities in school and community.
3. Leadership qualities and strength of character.

Value: $5,000

Each Manitoba high school may nominate one student. Nomination forms are sent to principals. A committee will select six to ten AESP recipients.

Marsha P. Hanen Entrance Scholarship

Criteria:

1. Same as those of the Alumni Entrance Scholarship Program.
2. Selected from among the AESP nominees.

Value: $10,500

$4,500 for Year I and then renewable for up to three more years at $2,000 per year.

Walter Leatherdale Entrance Scholarship

Criteria:

1. Same as those of the Alumni Entrance Scholarship Program
2. Must come from rural Manitoba and preferably from a farming community.
3. Selected from among the AESP nominees.

Value: $24,000

$6,000 for Year I (tuition, textbook & living allowances) and then renewable for up to three more years.

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Special Entrance Scholarships

These scholarships are offered, without the necessity of a scholarship application, to all graduates of Manitoba high schools who meet the conditions below.  Senior 4 (Grade12) students must, however, apply for admission to the University by March 1.

1. Only students with at least five approved 40S credits will be considered for a University of Winnipeg Special Entrance Scholarship (See below). 
2. A minimum average of 80% on the best five of the approved 40S credits. (Standing in full-credit Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses is approved for scholarship calculation purposes).  Interim grades, submitted by high schools in spring, will be used. 
3. The two students with the highest incoming averages will be awarded the $4,000 Chancellor's Special Entrance Scholarships.

• Students with averages of 95.0% or higher will receive a $2,250 scholarship.
• Students with averages of 90.0% to 94.9% will receive a $1,750 scholarship.
• Students with averages of 86.0% to 89.9% will receive a $1,100 scholarship.
• Students with averages of 80.0% to 85.9% will receive a $800 scholarship.

ALSO $600 President's Award of Merit bonus awards for the five students with the highest averages entering each of Arts, Science & Education

Approved 40S credits:

• Accounting Systems 40S
• Anglais 40S
• Art 40S
• Biology 40S
• Chemistry 40S
• Chinese (Cantonese) 40S
• Chinese (Mandarin) 40S
• Computer Science 40S
• Cree/Ojibwe/Saulteaux 41G
• Dramatic Arts 40S
• Economics 40S
• English 40 (A or S, two credits)
• Family Studies 40S
• Filipino 40S
• Francais 40S
• French 40S
• Geography 40S
• German 40S
• Hebrew 40S
• History of Western Civilization 40S
• Italian 40S
• Japanese 40S
• Latin 40S
• Law 40S
• Mathematics:  Applied Mathematics 40S or Pre-Calculus Mathematics 40S.  (Consumer Mathematics is not an approved course)
• Music 40S (One of:  Band, Choral, Guitar, Strings or Private Music Option)
• Physics 40S
• Polish 40S
• Portuguese 40S
• Spanish 40S
• Ukrainian 40S
• World Issues 40S

Students with credentials of comparable standing from outside Manitoba also will be considered for these scholarships.

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Other Entrance Scholarships

Entrance Scholarship application forms for all other Entrance Scholarships will be sent to Manitoba high schools and will be available here shortly. The application forms must submitted to the Awards Office by March 1, 2010.

Value: $ 100 - $4,000