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• Any 4U English (a final grade of at least 75% is required)
• 5 additional 4U/M courses
• Recommended: MDM4U

Exigences en matière d’IB et d’AP

Exigences linguistiques

Offres d'admission

Basic requirements

• 17³Ô¹Ï High School Diploma with a minimum of 6 Grade 12 U/M courses, including the â€¯for the program to which you have applied. EAE4U will be treated as equivalent to ENG4U.  
• Your admission average consists of the grades from your top 6 Grade 12 U/M courses, including all required courses for the program you've applied to. 
• All offers of admission are conditional upon completing the 17³Ô¹Ï Secondary School Diploma and maintaining the grades indicated in a student’s offer of admission.
• If your first language is not English, and you have not studied full-time in an English-language school system for the 4 years immediately before beginning your studies at Waterloo, you will be required to meet our . 

Supplemental Application

• In order to be considered for admission we require an Admission Information Form (AIF) for Computing and Financial Management, Engineering (including Software Engineering) and all Mathematics programs. 
• You MUST save and submit ALL pages of the AIF to be considered for these programs.
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• Some programs require additional supplemental applications. .
• For the School of Architecture, invitations for interviews may be based on final Grade 11 marks. See the Architecture website for . 

Failed and Repeated Courses

• Accounting and Financial Management and Sustainability and Financial Management: We review 3U/M grades, in combination with 4U/M grades and the School of Accounting and Finance Admission Assessment, for early offers to the program.

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Alternative Offers of Admission

• If you are not admitted to the program you applied to, you may be considered for admission to an alternative program, provided you meet the minimum admission requirements and spaces are available. 
• If a program is available in both &²Ô²ú²õ±è;²¹²Ô»å  systems of study and you're not admitted to the co-op version, you may be automatically considered for either the corresponding regular program or another related program, provided spaces are available. In some programs, limited admission to co-op is also available in second year. 

Timing of Admission Decisions

•  are made on a rolling basis between January and May as we receive updated grades from schools. The date you may receive an offer of admission depends on the program you applied to, the course grades we have received, your grade average and any special entrance requirements (such as video interviews, Admission Information Form and portfolios for some programs). The Faculties of Engineering and Mathematics, as well as the Accounting and Financial Management and Sustainability and Financial Management, make admission decisions begining in February and ending in May.
• You can apply to multiple programs at Waterloo except for Engineering programs. 
• We want to consider all students fairly, so we may wait for updated grades from schools before making many of our admission decisions. 
• Scholarship and bursary decisions are made in May. 

Applying to Engineering programs

You may apply to 1 Waterloo Engineering program on your application to Waterloo. 

• If you are not admitted to the Engineering program you applied to, you may be considered for admission to another Engineering program. You will have the ability to choose 1 alternate Engineering program when completing your . You will receive instructions for completing your AIF once you have applied. Biomedical Engineering and Software Engineering are ²Ô´Ç³Ù available as alternate choices on your AIF, so you will need to apply to Biomedical or Software Engineering directly if either program is your main interest. 

 required for Faculty scholarships and strongly recommended for admission. 

Application and document deadline for Engineering (excluding Architecture):

• Application deadline: January 15, 2025
• deadline: January 31, 2025

Dual Credits/SHSM Programs

• We do not recognize dual credits or SHSM programs, except for agreements with the Waterloo Region District School Board and the Waterloo Catholic District School Board for SES4U.
• Some Waterloo programs, students who complete SES4U with a mark of 75% through a Waterloo Region District School Board or Waterloo Catholic District School Board high school will be eligible to receive Earth Sciences 121 as a transfer credit upon our receipt of their completion certificate.

Deferred Admission

• High school applicants who are offered admission and who accept their offer and meet all conditions and wish to take a year off to work or travel, may request a 1-year . You will not be granted a deferral if you study at another postsecondary institution during the year. You can continue to take high school level classes if you chose to do so.

First-year Course Selection Process

• Students will receive instructions in June for selecting their fall courses.

Accessibility Services

• We encourage admitted students with disabilities to contact AccessAbility Services: 519-888-4567, ext. 35082 | TTY: 519-888-4040 access@uwaterloo.ca

Support for Transition to University

• Waterloo has an extensive transition program that starts in the summer and continues through first year. Students can expect to receive emails starting in early June - .
• MTHEL 99: First-year Mathematics Readiness course for students entering the .