Why apply for a scholarship?

• Your pay will be better.
• You will have more opportunity to select the supervisor you want.
• It looks very good on your CV. Once you get one, it becomes much easier to get others, later in your career
• It may seem like a lottery. In part it is. But you cannot win if you don't buy a ticket.

Scholarship forms vary in complexity. Here we will consider a OGS, NSERC, and CIHR Graduate Scholarship as examples.

The same principles apply to post graduate fellowship application.