• 2025-2026 Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing In-Course Award Application (BScN)

    By completing this application, you are requesting the faculty to consider you for any in-course award that you may be eligible to receive.
  • You cannot continue with the electronic form, please contact awards.nursing@utoronto.ca to discuss your options.

  • Personal Information

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  • Program Info

  • ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

    Where directed, please provide any professional or academic highlights that address award criteria if applicable. If you are selected for an award, this information (not financial) may be provided to the award donor. In submitting this application, you agree to this disclosure.
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  • Leadership/Community Involvement Awards

  • 1) Clare Scanlan Scholarship

     Awarded to a student entering the senior year of the BScN program who has demonstrated outstanding extra-curricular involvement and/or leadership in the community and/or university activities. The candidate(s) will have a minimum of a ‘B’ (72%) average, demonstrated financial need and reside in the province of Ontario.

    Note: If granted, the award amount will vary based on annual income, approximately $2000.00.

    2) Deborah Dewar Nursing Scholarship for Community Leadership

    To be awarded to an undergraduate student(s) on the basis of financial need. Preference will be given to student(s) who have illustrated a commitment to community and leadership qualities.

    Note: If granted, the award amount will vary based on annual income, approximately $2000.00.

    3) Kathleen Sally Syme Scholarship Fund

    Awarded to students in the senior year of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing who have demonstrated leadership in extra-curricular activities related to nursing and/or university activities.  Candidates will have a minimum of B average.

    Note: If granted, the award amount will vary based on annual income, approximately $6000.00.

    4) Nel and Arthur Deverell Nursing Scholarships

    Demonstrate financial need and leadership through involvement in extracurricular activities in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, the University, and/or the community at large.

    Note: If granted, the award amount will vary based on annual income, approximately $700.00.

    5) Nursing Undergraduate Leadership Award

    Awarded to a student who has:

    a. financial need;

    b. Leadership through involvement in extracurricular activities in the Faculty, University, and/ or the Community

    Note: If granted, the award amount will vary based on annual income, approximately $500.00.

    If you would like to consider the awards above, please list your extracurricular activities and/or volunteer work in the Faculty, the University and/ or the community during your studies in the undergraduate nursing program. 

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  • Other Awards

  • Grace Paddock Harris Nursing Scholarship

    This award will be awarded to an undergraduate student entering their final year of the BScN program.  The student must be a domestic student with a minimum of 3.5 Annual GPA based on first-year results, who has demonstrated resiliency in the face of adversity.  Please include a personal statement about your experiences in demonstrating resiliency when overcoming adversity.

    If granted, the award amount will vary based on annual income, approximately $1500.00

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  • BUDGET

    If you choose not to complete the financial budget or fail to demonstrate need, you will not be considered for needs-based awards.
  • LIVING EXPENSES

    Please fill out your financial information by answering each of the following questions.
  • The following questions will prompt you to provide information about the resources and expenses you anticipate between September 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.

    Financial need is normally demonstrated when a negative balance appears in the “TOTAL AVAILABLE RESOURCES” field of the application (e.g., “Total Expected Expenses” is higher than “Total Expected Resources”). Showing a large positive balance in the “TOTAL AVAILABLE RESOURCES” field is not typically considered a demonstration of financial need, unless extenuating circumstances are also reported within the text box provided in this application.

    Enter your expected expense and resource amounts. The “Monthly Allowable Amounts” provided are based on provincially determined (OSAP) allowable claims, for which rent, utilities, food, household supplies, cell & internet, transportation costs, etc. are accounted. Supporting documentation must be provided for items where indicated on the form.

  • Number of Dependent(s) aged 0-12.

    If this is not applicable to you, enter zero.

  • THIS VALUE CANNOT EXCEED YOUR ELIGIBLE DEPENDENT EXPENSES

  • THIS VALUE CANNOT EXCEED YOUR ELIGIBLE DEPENDENT EXPENSES

  • THIS VALUE CANNOT EXCEED YOUR ELIGIBLE DEPENDENT EXPENSES

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  • Enter total Medical, Dental and/ or Prescription Costs*

    Include only costs not covered by OHIP.

    Supporting documentation must be submitted.

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  • Other Expenses

    Specify below: Include other necessary expenses (e.g. other dependent expenses not included above) you expect to incur. Do not include living expenses (e.g. rent / mortgage, food, household supplies, clothing, transportation, cell & internet expenses) as these costs are already calculated and included within the Living Expenses field as calculated by the system.

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  • Resources

  • EXPECTED RESOURCES (must be for the same time-frame as the Expected Expenses section)

     

    If you are planning to apply for government student loans (e.g., Ontario Student Assistance Program) for the upcoming academic year and received the loan for the current academic year, you must enter the current year’s amount as your estimate for the upcoming year and provide a copy of your current year’s assessment with your application.

     

    If you did not receive government student loans this year and are planning to apply for the upcoming academic year, enter the amount from the online OSAP Aid Estimator and submit a print-out or equivalent with your application. The OSAP Aid Estimator is available here: https://osap.gov.on.ca/AidEstimator2223Web/enterapp/enter.xhtml

     NOTE: If the estimator indicates that an estimate for September 2025 is not available, please use the September 2024 estimate.

     

    Please note, it is essential to fill in your expected resources as accurately and honestly as possible.  Students who do not plan to apply for OSAP, do not submit evidence of a prior OSAP assessment, or do not submit an OSAP Aid Estimate will not be considered for needs-based awards.  If you are not able to apply for OSAP due to a restriction or extenuating circumstance, please indicate so below in your Personal Statement.

     

    Additionally, students who do not indicate any resources and do not provide a reason for having no resources in their Personal Statement will not be considered for needs-based awards.

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  • Child support or government assistance/benefits

    A look-up table on basic child support payments can be found through the Ministry of the Attorney General’s website. https://www.ontario.ca/page/arranging-child-support/
    Income assistance services can be found through the Government of Canada’s website. Various Ontario benefits also fit in this category. https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/family.html

  • Other support / assistance / resources

  • Savings / accessible investments/ RESP (amount withdrawn for the year only)

    Only include the total amount of savings you currently have access to (i.e. money that you could withdraw today, that is not locked into an investment). Include any RESP funds that you expect to withdraw to fund your education for the upcoming year.

  • System Calculated: TOTAL RESOURCES

     

    This total will be submitted with this application.

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  • CERTIFICATION

    I certify that all the information provided on this application is, to the best of my knowledge, truthful, accurate and complete

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