Originally Posted by L'Étoile

and for these scholarships (non application wise) do they just randomly give them to deserving students ?

A lot of the scholarships and bursories given are based on financial need, or given to people who randomly fall into a minority (culture, child of some random type of worker, etc).

Originally Posted by Revolution1

This link is quite useful:

http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /CALEN...nt/pg1169.html

Scroll down and view the scholarships for each faculty. You can also see which scholarships require applications.

thanks! and from this link, aren't there still plenty of awards which don't required applications? or most of them are really hard to get (gpa 11+)?

and what about the academic grants? it doesn't say much about them except a description and amount. No applications needed or something?

How do they determine financial need? Something tells me that International students are not on their priority list...

(I didn't even get an entrance scholarship, despite my excellent High School GPA)

Originally Posted by bkkk_5

thanks! and from this link, aren't there still plenty of awards which don't required applications? or most of them are really hard to get (gpa 11+)?

and what about the academic grants? it doesn't say much about them except a description and amount. No applications needed or something?

I am not absolutely certain, but I imagine that for most of them, you'd need a high average (11+). You might end up getting the Senate scholarship ($800). My CA in first year was similar to yours (10.6), and I received it. I believe that for the Senate scholarships there is a cutoff CA for each faculty, and the students above that cutoff receive the scholarship.

As for the grants, it should say on that website whether an application is required or not.

Originally Posted by bkkk_5

thanks! and from this link, aren't there still plenty of awards which don't required applications? or most of them are really hard to get (gpa 11+)?

You'll most likely require ~11 for science. I believe one scholarship had a 10.9 cutoff, and another had an 11.4.