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Queen's University Automatic Grade-Based Entrance Scholarships

Queen's University, Canada

Scholarship overview

Queen's University automatically considers incoming first-year undergraduates for a set of grade-based entrance scholarships; no separate application is required, though the Financial Aid and Awards Profile covers other donor-funded awards. The main entries are the Principal's Scholarship and the Senator Frank Carrel Admission Scholarship, alongside a longer list of named automatic admission awards tied to academic excellence, financial need, first-generation status, Indigenous identity, or other specific criteria. A named donor award can replace a student's original automatic award when it carries an equal or higher value.

The 'awards average' used to assess eligibility is based on the courses required for the program applied to, calculated differently depending on the applicant's education system (Ontario, other Canadian provinces, CEGEP, U.S. curriculum, or other systems).

Award Information

  • Principal's Scholarship: open to students in the top 3% of the competitive admission average for their first-entry program, across all programs; admission average and IB Diploma requirements vary by program and year.
  • Senator Frank Carrel Admission Scholarship: Canadian citizens or permanent residents from Quebec entering any first-entry program, with preference to students from the Quebec City area or the Gulf Region.
  • U.S.-curriculum applicants need a minimum unweighted GPA of 3.7 or 90% to be considered for grade-based admission scholarships.
  • CEGEP students are assessed differently by year and program stage (current year-one students on fall-term grades, completed year-one students on cumulative average, year-two/DEC graduates on all completed academic CEGEP courses, each excluding physical education); graduates of 3-year professional/career CEGEP programs are not eligible.
  • Named automatic awards add criteria such as first-generation status (Churchill First Generation, Betty Harrison), Indigenous identity (Indigenous Admission Award), international academic achievement with preference to refugees then financial need from developing countries (Principal Wallace Freedom of Opportunity), or strength in Grade 12U math courses for direct-entry programs (Professor John Matheson).
  • Principal's Scholarship: CAD 7,000 per year, one year only, not renewable; number awarded varies year to year.
  • Senator Frank Carrel Admission Scholarship: CAD 18,000 per year (CAD 72,000 total over four years), renewable for 3 further years under the Renewable Awards Policy; number awarded is variable.
  • Named automatic awards (e.g. E. Stanley and Nadine M. Beacock, Robert and June Brayshaw, A.J. and Margaret Grant Bursary, Memorial Scholarship, Bill and Kay Paul Admission Award, George Taylor and Lilian Coleman Taylor, and others) do not have published dollar amounts; several specify renewal terms, such as the Beacock (renewable 3 years, minimum 3.5 GPA), the Grant Bursary (paid in 3 annual instalments, minimum 2.7 GPA each year), the Paul Admission Award (renewable 3 years, satisfactory average), and the Taylor award (paid in 4 annual instalments, satisfactory standing).

No application deadline applies since consideration is automatic; eligibility is assessed from the grades submitted with the regular admission application.

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How selection works

Ontario students are assessed on final Grade 12 marks where available, with mid-term Grade 12 marks included if available at the time of an admission offer, and Grade 11 courses used only if Grade 12 marks are unavailable. Students from other Canadian provinces and territories are assessed on Grade 12 marks (Grade 11 used only if unavailable). CEGEP, U.S.-curriculum and other-system students are assessed as described under eligibility. Students are considered automatically against these averages; no committee review or separate ranking process is described on the official page.

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