Entrance Awards | Awards, Scholarships and Bursaries | Seneca Students

Seneca offers various scholarships, bursaries and other awards to help our students. Entrance awards are one form of financial award available to incoming students who meet the qualifications and requirements.

Here is the List of Entrance Awards.

Eligibility

To be eligible for an entrance award, you must:

• have been offered admission to Seneca or are waiting to hear from us
• meet the academic requirement
• be eligible for financial aid

The last day to apply for entrance awards will be August 15.

You are not guaranteed an award even if you apply if you have not received an offer of admission to Seneca.

Applying for awards in the fall

More awards will become available and open for submission in the fall after classes begin. To apply to those awards, you must return to the application and apply.

In-course awards

You can apply for in-course awards even if you have already applied for entrance awards.

In-course awards for the Fall term will open September 1. To be considered for in-course awards you will need to return to your application after they open even if you have already applied for entrance awards.

For a list of awards currently open please follow this link.

For a list of scholarships and awards open to current students and details on financial aid, visit the Available Scholarships page.

How to apply

Before you apply, ensure you have activated your Seneca online account. To activate your Seneca online account,

• look for an email with a temporary password and details on how to activate your account.
• If you applied to or attended Seneca in the past, you can continue to use your existing My.Seneca account.

For assistance with account setup, contact IT Service Desk at servicedesk@senecapolytechnic.ca.

To apply for an entrance award:

1. Log in to Student Home
2. Under the “Financial Aid” tile, select “Apply for Financial Aid”
3. Click on the magnifying glass icon to select the correct academic year. For example, for the fall 2026, winter 2027 and summer 2027 terms, you will need to select the 2026 academic year.
4. Fill out all required information
5. Select all your terms of study (FALL and/or WINTER and/or SUMMER)

• You should select all the terms you will be studying for the academic year, not only the term you are currently in
• If you are receiving OSAP this should match your OSAP application

6. Complete the budget (keep your budget information ready before you start this section)
7. Make sure you read the declaration as once you submit you are agreeing to the terms
8. Click “Submit”

• Please note once you click submit you cannot make changes

9. Select the scholarships, awards or bursaries you wish to apply for from the list of Eligible Awards

• If you get a message saying you are not eligible for any awards it may be because you have already applied.  Check under “View My Student Awards” on the “Financial Aid” tile to see the awards you have already applied for.

10. A number of questions will appear and are linked to the awards you have selected. If the question does not apply to you, please type N/A or deselect the award. There is a character limit (not word limit) on the questions. You can copy the questions and come back to the application when you are ready, as long as it is before the application deadline. If you wish, you can write the answers in a word document, then copy and paste them to the application. This will help ensure you have the right number of characters and will enable you to check your grammar and spelling.

• Please note some awards require additional documents, you will see this next to the award along with an add button.
• To see which documents are required click on the name of the award.
• Make sure you only upload the accepted file types.

11. Click Submit when you have answered all the questions.

• • If you do not submit at this time you will not have applied for the awards, only completed an application.  To be considered for the awards you must click submit
  • Please note once you click submit you cannot make any changes

How to check your awards application status

You can track the status of your application on Student Home. To check your status:

1. Log into Student Home
2. Click the “Financial Aid” tile
3. Select “View my Student Awards” on the menu
4. Type in the correct year, as noted above

If you have applied for multiple awards you may need to scroll through the pages

If you are a successful recipient of an entrance scholarship, it will be applied to your student account after the 10th day of classes.