It appears that UBC is changing its Major Entrance Scholarships from an application basis to one in which students are automatically considered. Although there is a shorter essay component, I believe the goal is to prevent students from being left out of consideration of the scholarship.

I’m personally pleased about this change. At least as I heard the story from other students at my high school, our counsellor wasn’t completely organized in his assisting with the Major Entrance Scholarships and some students were rushing to throw together an application the date it was due (as they were “selected” on a last minute basis). I never found out about these scholarships until I heard about this from those students. Hopefully this new system prevents such events from happening again…