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moevsworld wrote: How are scholarships at uOttawa? I have good ecs and mid 80's marks. Also how's financial aid there?

Good, if you are french. Not so much, if you are anglophone
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GtG wrote: Good, if you are french. Not so much, if you are anglophone
That's not true. They offer scholarships to those in the mid 80's who are anglophones.
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Typhoonz wrote: That's not true. They offer scholarships to those in the mid 80's who are anglophones.
Yes, and if you speak french you will have access to both. You see my point?
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What are you talking about all the automatic bursaries are the same for anglophone and francophone.

80-84 1000/yr (up to 4000)
85-89 2000/yr (up to 8000)
90 - 94 3000/yr (up to 12000)
95+ 4000/yr (up to 16000)

In order to maintain that amount a CGPA of 8.5 is required.

Some other ones:
French Studies Bursary (enroll in french immersion) - 1000/yr (up to 4,000)
Financial Need Bursary - 1000/yr (up to 4,000)

You can view them all following this link:
http://www.registrar.uottawa.ca/Default.aspx?tabid=4180
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cyruskafaiwu wrote: What are you talking about all the automatic bursaries are the same for anglophone and francophone.

80-84 1000/yr (up to 4000)
85-89 2000/yr (up to 8000)
90 - 94 3000/yr (up to 12000)
95+ 4000/yr (up to 16000)

In order to maintain that amount a CGPA of 8.5 is required.

Some other ones:
French Studies Bursary (enroll in french immersion) - 1000/yr (up to 4,000)
Financial Need Bursary - 1000/yr (up to 4,000)

You can view them all following this link:
http://www.registrar.uottawa.ca/Default.aspx?tabid=4180
Yes, now look a little further and you will see that some of the scholarships and bursaries outside of those are exclusive to french speakers. Thus, meaning if you speak French, you will have more access to scholarships and bursaries.
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GtG wrote: Yes, now look a little further and you will see that some of the scholarships and bursaries outside of those are exclusive to french speakers. Thus, meaning if you speak French, you will have more access to scholarships and bursaries.
This doesn't mean that scholarships are "not so good" if you are an anglophone. Besides, it's always based on financial aid and just because you speak french, doesn't mean you're going to magically get twice as much (or whatever amount) as someone who doesn't.
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Typhoonz wrote: This doesn't mean that scholarships are "not so good" if you are an anglophone. Besides, it's always based on financial aid and just because you speak french, doesn't mean you're going to magically get twice as much (or whatever amount) as someone who doesn't.
Scholarships are not based on financial aid. Also, since a portion of the award funding is exclusive to french speakers, the overall awards funding for anglophone students will be less when compared to bilingual and french students. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that. I am just stating the facts.

Basically, you will qualify for more financial awards if you speak French. It is really not that hard to understand.
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While I am here, anyone at U of Ottawa, thinking of doing Accounting or is in Accounting? Your opinions?
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Man I *****ed up this year and I'm pretty pissed at myself about it...I only need to take three courses this semester and I got into one classes I wanted (extremely hard to get into because of how amazing the prof is) and I dropped that class by accident, don't ask how...and I couldn't get into the 2nd course I wanted. I'm only registered for 1 course lol...any idea if the academic advisers will make an extra space for the student?

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