{"id":114,"date":"2012-10-06T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylersuzukinelson.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-10-06T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:42:20","slug":"ubc-major-entrance-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/2012\/10\/06\/ubc-major-entrance-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Major Entrance Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubyssey.ca\/news\/automatic-major-scholarships-876\/\" >It appears that UBC is changing its Major Entrance Scholarships from an application basis to one in which students are automatically considered.<\/a> Although there is a shorter essay component, I believe the goal is to prevent students from being left out of consideration of the scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m personally pleased about this change. At least as I heard the story from other students at my high school, our counsellor wasn&#8217;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 &#8220;selected&#8221; 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/tylersuzukinelson\/~4\/-mhxto7-TFk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;m personally pleased about this change. At least as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylersuzukinelson.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/ubc-major-entrance-scholarships\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/2012\/10\/06\/ubc-major-entrance-scholarships\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}