What you need to know
- Admission requirements
- Transfer students
- How to apply
- Once you've applied
- Admission Information Form
- English language requirements
- Math and computing contests
- Repeated and non-day school course policies
- Offers of admissions
What courses do you need to apply?
Ontario high school requirements
(All others see out-of-province and international requirements below)
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Program |
Required courses - Grade 12 U unless otherwise specified. Minimum (min) requirements: 6 Grade 12 U or M courses; including all required courses |
Admissions average - Based on individual selection |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration (WLU) and Computer Science (Waterloo) Co-op | Advanced Functions, Calculus and Vectors, English, one other Grade 12U course | Low 90s |
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Computer Science Regular/Co-op |
Advanced Functions, Calculus and Vectors, English, one other Grade 12U course | Low 90s |
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Computing and Financial Management Co-op |
Advanced Functions, Calculus and Vectors, English (min 75%), one other Grade 12U course | Low 90s |
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Software Engineering |
Advanced Functions (min 70%), Calculus and Vectors (min 70%), Chemistry (min 70%), English (min 70%), Physics Experience in developing well-structured modular programs is also required |
Low 90s |
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Transfer students
If you have completed a degree or are working towards completing a degree at a college or university, you will be considered as a transfer student when you apply.
Learn about our transfer requirements and procedures to apply.
Apply through OUAC
You'll apply to the University of Waterloo through the Ontario Universities Application Centre (OUAC).
Two weeks after completing your application, you should receive an email from the University of Waterloo acknowledging the receipt of your application.
If you do not hear back from us, please check your junk mail and then contact our admissions office: myapplication@uwaterloo.ca.
After you have applied
- Add us to your address book to ensure that email we send you isn't filtered as spam.
- Arrange to have your grades and, in some cases, course descriptions sent to us.
- Stay informed about important dates and deadlines.
- You may confirm or change your email address on Quest once you are issued a Waterloo ID.
- We will begin to make offers as early as December and January but most of our offers will be made in May. You will have until the end of May or beginning June to accept our offer.
Admission Information Form
- Once we have received your application, you'll be asked to complete an Admission Information Form (AIF)
- The AIF is required for admission to all Computer Science programs.
English language requirements
You are required to provide an English proficiency test score if:
- Your first language is not English
- Your 4 most recent years of full-time education have NOT been in an English-language school system
Get information about English language test scores and our English Language for Academic Studies (ELAS) program from our Faculty of Mathematics website.
Canadian Computing Competition, Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest (CSMC) and Euclid Math Contest
Participate in our math and computing contests organized by the Centre for Education in Math and Computing:
| Contest | Purpose | Writing date |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Computing Competition |
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February 20, 2019 |
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April 3, 2019 | |
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November 21, 2018 |
Contest preparation workbooks are available for purchase at the Centre for Education in Math Computing website.
Repeated courses and non-day school courses
- Your overall admission score may be adjusted by 1% for every Grade 12 course that you repeat.
- The admission average for all programs will be calculated using the highest Grade 12 U or M mark in a repeated subject.
- If you complete any courses outside of your daytime high school hours, you will be asked to provide reason for taking an external course. We may adjust your overall admissions average depending on the reasons for your enrolment. We prefer that students take a full course load in high school whenever possible.
- On your Admissions Information Form (AIF), you'll be asked to comment on repeated courses. We'll provide you with instructions about the AIF once you've applied to the University of Waterloo.
Offers of admission
Once you receive an offer of admissions, you'll have until the beginning of June to accept your offer on OUAC.
- In the Faculty of Mathematics, we consider applicants on an individual basis.
- We need time to read and score your Admission Information Form (AIF), tabulate your admission average using your marks in the required Grade 12 courses, then tabulate your admission score (a combination of your average plus your AIF score), and, in some cases, to consult your Euclid and/or Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest results.
- We make few early offers of admission with the quality and quantity of students that apply.
