Recipients receive a $5,000 scholarship voucher that they can redeem with the Ministry of Education after they are attending a designated post-secondary institution or B.C. authorized trades training provider.
Students have five years to redeem their BC Excellence scholarship vouchers; the expiry date is printed on each voucher and extensions are not possible.
For criteria and more details on how to apply, https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/support/scholarships/provincial-scholarships/bc-excellence-scholarships
This is a school nominated scholarship, Delview can nominate one student for this award. If you want to be nominated, please submit your brag sheet and cover letter to me by November 15, 2021. Your cover letter should mention your most relevant community service, volunteer activity, and/or leadership role. Challenges or obstacles (if any) you encountered, and how did you overcome them. Mention things you have you learned from this experience and how will this experience benefit you in your chosen career path
Please note of the following are the requirements:
Information required
- Nomination from your school
- Save this nomination form to your computer (submit your brag sheet and cover letter to Ms. Abad by November 15th to be nominated).
- Ask your principal to sign the form and return to you (Ms. Abad will ask the principal to sign the form)
- Attach your nomination form below where prompted
- Resume
- Save this resume template to your computer
- Enter all information into the template
- Part I: volunteer and work experience (7 activities maximum)
- Part II: additional accomplishments (250 words maximum)
- When you are ready to submit your application, copy and paste the information from your template into the web form below
- Note: your resume is worth 40% in the overall assessment of your application
- Two reference letters (one community-related and one school-related) (wait for the decision if you will be nominated before you contact your referees)
- Save these reference letter instructions to your computer
- Share the instructions with your two referees
- Attach your two letters below where prompted
- Note: the marking teams do not score reference letters but consider them when scoring resumes
- Written statement (500 words)
- Save this written statement template to your computer
- Write your statement in the template, following the instructions there
- Attach your written statement below where prompted
- Note: the written statement is worth 60% in the overall assessment of your application
Contact Ms. Abad for any questions [email protected]