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[notagunner]

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[beyondthesea]

They are not very transparent with regards to selection criteria, but my assumption at least is that it is mostly need based. They do ask a lot of questions related to this (e.g. they need a property value assessment of your parent(s) house). I don't feel comfortable going into too many details, but parental income was in the lowest income tax bracket. cGPA was around 3.94, and my MCAT was 521.

[Applicant95]

The criteria is a bit frustrating. I'm an older student who's been out of school for some time, and I paid my own way through grad school and would be doing the same for med. I'm personally low-income (like <20k a year) but my parents are comfortably middle-class so I assume that I won't be selected. It's frustrating since they seem to assume that everyone's parents help them pay for school which isn't the case.

Anyways, I know that this doesn't answer your question @notagunner - just wanted to vent! haha

Good luck!

[beyondthesea]

@Applicant95 This is just a hunch, but the assumption might be that if your parents are middle/upper class, then you would have grown up with the advantages of a middle/upper class student, which helps with getting scholarships for undergrad, maybe them paying for undergrad, etc. A multiplication of privileges in a sense. But I agree, it's definitely not a perfect system! E.g. parental income could be low now, but was high for many years, or maybe some students have other family members that have supported them, and so on.

[wifflball]

On 3/26/2020 at 2:39 PM, Applicant95 said:

The criteria is a bit frustrating. I'm an older student who's been out of school for some time, and I paid my own way through grad school and would be doing the same for med. I'm personally low-income (like <20k a year) but my parents are comfortably middle-class so I assume that I won't be selected. It's frustrating since they seem to assume that everyone's parents help them pay for school which isn't the case.

Anyways, I know that this doesn't answer your question @notagunner - just wanted to vent! haha

Good luck!

You are not accurate in assuming you will not be considered and I strongly encourage you to apply if you believe you would benefit from the Schulich Scholarship.