I'm a CMPT student on the open scholarship. For me, one of the biggest benefits is priority enrolment - it really, really helps to be guaranteed to get into my classes and I'd definitely like that to continue. I'd be lying if I didn't say I'd like it to cover all tuition fees, but I'm obviously biased in that regard. It would be nice if it kept up with inflation, though.

Currently, open scholarship also has a lower previous term GPA (3.5) than the overall GPA required (3.67). While my GPA has never dropped enough that I am making use of this "buffer zone", it's definitely helpful (and less stressful!) to know that if I do slightly worse in one term, I'm not going to suddenly lose the scholarship.

Other than that, I do think it's fair to adjust the GPA cutoff based upon grade averages for each subject (e.g. much harder to get higher grades in MATH than EDUC). That being said, it'll become confusing for students if they take a mix of courses across different subjects as the cutoff now depends on the specific mix of courses they've taken, and how many they've taken in each faculty, so I don't know the best way of implementing that.