Founders' Academic Merit Scholarship
$36,000 ($9,000 X 4) total funding per recipient
The Founders' Academic Merit Scholarship recognizes academic achievement, leadership and extracurricular activities. Every year, 10 students are awarded a Founders' Academic Merit Scholarship. Each recipient receives $9,000 per academic year over four years of full-time study, for a total of $36,000.
Note: The Founders’ Academic Merit Scholarship cannot be combined with the Vice-Provost Entrance Award or the Renewable Entrance Scholarship.
Eligibility
To be considered for this scholarship, you must:
- Applicant must be entering post-secondary studies for the first time as a full-time student.
- Applicant must be entering any degree program offered by the University of Guelph-Humber.
- Applicants must have a minimum admission average of 90% (inclusive of subject requirements) based on grades submitted.
- Applicant must have demonstrated significant leadership achievements through participation in school and/or community activities.
- Applicant must be a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- This award cannot be held with the Guelph-Humber Student Leadership Scholarship, the University of Guelph’s President’s and Chancellors’ Scholarships or the University of Guelph’s Board of Governors’ Scholarships.
- Out of Province Applicants only: Please have your high school Guidance Counsellor or School Administrator email your official transcript by February 28 to admissions@guelphhumber.ca. Your transcript must include grades for all completed and in-progress grade 11 and 12 courses to be considered for the scholarship.
Renewability:
- If you have been awarded a Founders' Academic Merit Scholarship, we will automatically consider you for each renewal year.
- You must maintain a full-time course load in both the Fall and Winter semesters before the year of renewal. Note: courses completed on a Letter of Permission do not count towards a full-time course load.
- If you do not receive renewal one year, you are still eligible in subsequent years if your cumulative average of the fall and winter semesters rises within the award levels.
- This scholarship is eligible for renewal for three calendar years from the term of admission only.
- You must achieve a minimum 80% average in the previous academic year.
- You must submit an annual report which outlines their participation, accomplishments and leadership in campus and/or community activities each year. Students will be contacted in late June/early July every year with report requirements.
Apply
Founders' Academic Merit Scholarship Application and submit it along with the required supporting documents to finaid@guelphhumber.ca.
Deadline: You must submit your application and all supporting documents by January 25th, 2024.
Receiving your scholarship
You must be registered in a full-time course load. We will automatically credit your scholarship to your University account. The scholarship amount for each year will be divided into two equal payments: one at the beginning of the fall semester and the other at the beginning of the winter semester.