Ontario Students:

Students studying in an Ontario High School must submit ONE of the following:

• A Credit Counselling Summary
• A Student Status Sheet

The document submitted should include:

• All previously completed course marks - grade 9 through last completed year.
• November grades for those courses you are currently enrolled in.
  
  • If your November grades are not included in your Credit Counselling Summary or Student Status Sheet you will be required to submit an additional document with your current November Grades – a report card, or hand written on an unofficial transcript or on school letterhead – signed by a school official.

Non-Ontario Students:

Students studying in a Non-Ontario High School must submit ALL of the following:

• An Unofficial High School Transcript - grade 9 through last completed year.
• November grades for those courses you are currently enrolled in.
• A list of all courses to be taken during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Current year courses and November grades may be hand written, together or on separate documents, on either an unofficial transcript, report card, or on school letterhead – signed by a school official.

All Students:

Do not submit multiple copies of the same grades. It is expected that students have a cumulative average of 90% or higher throughout high school in order to be competitive in our Major Admission Award competition.

Yes, students who have applied for Major Admission Awards, including the Chancellor's, must fulfill all admission requirements for the desired program(s) that are being applied to. Review Admission Requirements. The deadline for the Supplementary Essay is not the same as the Major Admission Awards Application. The Major Admission Awards deadline is December 8th, 2021. The Supplementary Essay deadline is February 15th, 2022. For enquiries regarding Supplementary Essays, please contact Undergraduate Admissions at admission@queensu.ca

Yes. In order to be considered for a Chancellor’s Scholarship, you must receive the nomination from the high school where you most recently attended full time studies. Nominations from institutions where you have been enrolled in part-time studies will not be accepted.

Yes, you may still apply for the Major Admission Awards. However, students who wish to apply for the Chancellor’s Scholarship must receive a nomination from their prior full-time high school. As there are restrictions on the number of nominees per school, It is up to the discretion of the High School Official whether to nominate a prior student over a student that is currently enrolled.

A student from Quebec may receive a Chancellor's nomination from either their prior full time high school OR their current full time CEGEP.

Our scholarship is a firm offer. If your grades fall below the awards average, we will not rescind your scholarship offer. As long as you meet the academic requirements identified in your offer of admission for the specific program, the original admission scholarship offered will be honoured.

Please note: The Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship and the Principal’s Scholarship are not renewable awards and are valid for your first year of study only.

Queen’s University will assess your scholarship offer eligibility based on high school grades available at the time you are offered admission to Queen’s. Once you accept your offer of admission and we receive your final grades (typically July/August), we will automatically re-assess your eligibility for a grade-based scholarship.

Please note: courses taken in the summer immediately prior to your admit term at Queen’s university will not be used in the assessment of your final grades average.

If you were offered the Principal’s Scholarship (grade average 95% or higher), and your final grade average has increased, your scholarship offer will not change. The Principal’s Scholarship is the highest grade-based scholarship offered.

If you were offered the Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship (High School grade average 90% – 94.9%), and your final grade average has increased to 95% or higher, you will be automatically reassessed in July/August and granted the Principal’s Scholarship instead.

If you did not receive an initial scholarship offer but your final admission average meets the requirement for either the Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship or the Principal’s Scholarship, the eligible scholarship will be awarded automatically.

Important: Your scholarship eligibility is automatically assessed once we receive your final grades report in July/August. If your final grade has increased, it may take a few days for you to see an update regarding your scholarship offer in your SOLUS Student Centre after your final grades have been posted. It is not necessary to contact the Student Awards Office.

Please note: The Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship and the Principal’s Scholarship are not renewable awards and are valid for your first year of study only.

If Undergraduate Admission grants a deferral of your admission to the program of study that you have accepted (e.g. Commerce), then your scholarship will also be deferred.

Please note this is for merit-based scholarships only.

Any award that has financial need criteria cannot be deferred. You must re-apply for need-based assistance through the Admission Bursaries and Awards application in the year you are planning on entering Queen's.

To be eligible for renewal of an academic-based award a student is expected to be registered in an 80% course load (typically 24 units in Fall/Winter) in their degree program at Queen's University.