At Waterloo, your admission average will be the average of your top six Grade 12 courses (U or M courses for Ontario students) including the courses which are required for the program you're applying to.
- If you take more than six Grade 12 courses, we'll use the courses required for admission to your program of interest plus your other courses with the highest grades.
- For Ontario students, C (college), O (open), and co-op courses are not included in your admission average for Waterloo.
How do we calculate an admission average?
Let's say you apply to a program that requires English, Biology, Chemistry, and Advanced Functions. You've chosen to take eight Grade 12 courses with the following final or mid-term marks.
- English (82%)
- Music (86%)
- International Business Fundamentals (81%)
- Biology (84%)
- Advanced Functions (78%)
- Calculus and Vectors (75%)
- Chemistry (80%)
- World Issues: A Geographic Analysis (83%)
Your admission average would be 82.2%. To get this, we take 82 + 84 + 80 + 78 from the four required courses, add 86 (Music) + 83 (World Issues) to get a total of six courses, and then divide by six. If you don't have final grades in some of your courses, we'll use mid-term or predicted grades.
How accurate are the admission averages?
- They're based on the grades of students we admitted last year.
- They're pretty accurate. We don't intentionally make them higher or lower than what we expect them to be.