How to use a Scholarship Voucher

If it has been stamped and signed, please write three pieces of information directly on your voucher:

• your Social Insurance Number (SIN);
• your email address; and,
• your home mailing address if it has changed (i.e., where you want your cheque delivered).

Next step:

Submit your voucher

It’s usually quicker to get your cheque if you submit a voucher that has been stamped and signed. However, if you cannot get it stamped and signed, you may submit it along with evidence to show that you are enrolled, that your tuition has been paid, and that your program has started. Get ready to submit the following. 

Voucher. Write three pieces of information directly on the voucher:

• your Social Insurance Number (SIN);
• your email address; and,
• your home mailing address if it’s changed (i.e., where you want your cheque delivered).

Verification of your enrolment and tuition paid. Provide one or more documents (or screenshots of online information) that, when combined, show the following:

• your name (must be on every document you submit);
• the name of your post-secondary institution / post-secondary program provider (must be on every document);
• the date your program started; and,
• the amount of tuition paid.
  • (acceptable) an official receipt or account balance summary from your post-secondary institution / post-secondary program provider
  • (unacceptable) statements that show tuition due but not paid
  • (unacceptable) bank and credit card statements/receipts

Next step: submit your voucher and evidence of enrolment and tuition paid.  

Submit your voucher

It’s possible vouchers haven’t been mailed yet. Read about timelines below.

District/Authority, BC Excellence, and Pathway to Teacher Education scholarships: if you were notified in the spring that you were a conditional recipient of one of these three scholarships, your award will be automatically confirmed in the fall, after graduation if your school records show you have satisfied core and scholarship-specific eligibility requirements. Vouchers are mailed in October (BC Excellence and Pathway to Teacher Education) and November (District/Authority).   

BC Achievement scholarship: remember that recipients are automatically determined in the fall, after graduation; vouchers are mailed in November.

If it’s December or later after you have graduated and you are expecting or hoping for a scholarship voucher but have not received one, here is what you need to do.   

1. Login to your Student Transcripts Service (STS) account.
2. Check to see if there is a scholarship(s) listed. If yes, that means you are confirmed as a recipient; the paper voucher did not reach you.
3. Follow the instructions below.

How to use your scholarship without a voucher

If it’s December or later and a scholarship(s) is listed in your STS account, you can redeem it without a voucher. Get ready to submit the following.

Declaration form (PDF). Complete this form to declare that you lost or did not receive your voucher

Verification of your enrolment and tuition paid. Provide one or more documents (or screen shots of online information) that, when combined, show the following:

• your name (must be on every document you submit);
• the name of your post-secondary institution / post-secondary program provider (must be on every document);
• the date your program started; and,
• the amount of tuition paid.
  • (acceptable) official receipt or account balance summary from your post-secondary institution / post-secondary program provider
  • (unacceptable) statements that show tuition due but not paid
  • (unacceptable) bank and credit card statements/receipts

Next step: submit your declaration form and evidence of enrolment and tuition paid.  

 Submit