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Year 12 | Update Naviance 

All Year 12 students have been instructed to update their Naviance account indicating all of the universities they are applying to and the outcome of your applications (acceptance, conditional acceptance, deferred, waitlisted, denied). When you have submitted an application, please use the edit function (pencil icon) in Naviance to mark it as “submitted” and include the faculty or program to which you have applied.

For our office to best support students, it is important that we know decision outcomes, especially now that offers from the most selective Canadian university programs will begin to roll out.

Be on the lookout for emails from universities to which you have been admitted regarding admitted student days and other programs during the month of April. These are great opportunities, both virtual and in-person, to learn more about the schools to which you’ve been accepted. Please see the University Counselling team with any questions as you plan and prepare for travel.

Why the waitlist

Congratulations to the Class of 2024 on the offers of admission that are coming to each of you. The hard work you have applied to your studies and the effort you have put into your applications has paid off.

While many students receive a clear offer of admission, there are some who remain in a state of limbo and are offered a spot on the waitlist. To understand more about how the waitlist works and what you should be doing, please click on the brief here.  

SAVE THE DATE | Year 11 Workshops

Sunday, April 21 —U.S. university applications

10 a.m. –1 p.m. 

Manucha & Bellamy Studio Theatre 

Wednesday, April 24  —Common app (for U.S. universities applicants only)

8:30–9:30 a.m.

Room 140

Wednesday, May 15 —  U.K. university applications — UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Services)

8:30–9:30 a.m.

Room 140

Year 11 | University planning meetings

All Year 11 students were presented with information regarding the university application process they are about to begin. A copy of the slides presented to them is included here.

Students in the Leaving Class of 2025 have been invited to choose a time in their university counsellor calendar to meet as they plan their applications to university in the fall.

Australian university applications are open

This is an event run each year for high school students interested in engineering and its applications to create social change. 

This year’s conference will take place on May 25–26 at the University of Toronto St. George campus. The conference focuses on the theme of Sustainable Production and Consumption (SDG12). It will include guest speakers, campus and lab tours, engineering design workshops and a group design competition. If this opportunity interests you, please sign up here.

University of Waterloo

Click here to watch a full interview with the University of Waterloo’s Associate Registrar, Admission, André Jardin. André provides an insider view of the admissions process and gets to some of the key questions that our students and parents have about Waterloo. He also provides several excellent tips for how our students can boost their admission chances!

• What grade average do I need to get in?

• Aside from grades, how does Waterloo make an admission decision —especially for Computer Science and Software Engineering?

• When do offers go out? When can I expect to hear from Math and Engineering?

• Do my Year 11 marks matter?

• I'm in AP or IB, will it help my admission chances? And could I get transfer credits?

• What should I include in my AIF? What do you want to see?

• Why is the Software Engineering AIF different than other programs?

• Does taking summer school courses, night classes, repeating courses or classes outside of my day school impact my admission chances?

• Do my scores on the Math contests, like Euclid, impact the admission decision? Why should I take these contests?

• What is the adjustment factor and how does it affect my application to Engineering?

• What advice do you have for students interested in applying to Waterloo?

U.S. College Expo on April 20

Upcoming university visits

• Huron at Western

April 9 at 1:30 p.m.

Room 138A

• Irish Universities Fair
  University of Galway, University College Cork, University of Limerick, Queen's University Belfast
  April 15 at 1:30 p.m.                                           

    Student Centre

• Johns Hopkins University

Prep School—Weston Hall

April 25 at 6 p.m.

Register here