Our first admission offers to Ontario secondary school domestic applicants were sent out last week. A few select applicants to Architectural Engineering (AE), Chemical Engineering (CHE), Civil Engineering (CIVE), Environmental Engineering (ENVE), Geological Engineering (GEOE), Management Engineering (MGTE), and Nanotechnology Engineering (NE) received offers. The admission round coincided with our receipt of interim grades from Ontario secondary schools. We have also issued a few admission offers, on a rolling basis, to out-of-province domestic students. We have not issued any admission offers to visa students at this time.
Given our admission requirements, it is generally a challenge for us to give out a large number of early admission offers. Applicants from Ontario secondary schools must have enrolled in the 5 required courses, must be on a path to completing an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, and must have submitted all sections of the Admission Information Form (AIF) to be considered. Fewer than 1 out of 20 Ontario secondary school applicants typically meet these requirements at this point in the admissions cycle. On top of the admission requirements, we restricted our assessments to the certain programs (AE, CHE, CIVE, ENVE, GEOE, MGTE, and NE) and we set a minimum average requirement for early admission to ensure that we would not disadvantage any future applicants to these programs.
All applicants that apply by the official application deadline in January will be fully considered in our next round of early admission which is expected to produce a much larger number of admission offers. Our next round of admission offers will include offers to all programs. It will likely also include offers to visa applicants. We are waiting on further guidance from the provincial government and our university before proceeding with offers to visa applicants.
To help my blog readers get into the holiday spirit, I thought I would post a photo of some cookies that my wife and I baked on the weekend. It is hard to believe the the university holiday shutdown is less than two weeks away. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
The Road to Engineering 