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 calculate your admission average using your six highest grades, including the courses which are required for admission to your program of interest.
- For Ontario students, C (college), O (open), and co-op courses are not used when calculating 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 we publish?
- 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.