Through MCWconnect when filling out the required documents for student aid there is a survey for institutional aid. This includes a few short essays or one overall essay - I can't entirely remember. No need to reinvent the wheel either, I used a lot of content from my secondaries to write these essays and just fluidly pieced them together. I think I got my award notification sometime in April. This was after I got my financial aid offer. I think there is a scholarship committee who reviews the institutional aid essays and decides on disbursements. It's prob best to plan for no scholarships and be pleasantly surprised if you were to get one