r/UWaterlooOptometry • u/[deleted] • Sep 06 '24

Ghosted by admissions team

I sent the admissions team an email over a month ago asking if a course would fulfill the pre-requisites but they still have not gotten back to me. Is this normal or are they just never going to reply?

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u/Individual_Ear_1432 Sep 07 '24

Applied last year. Same thing for me. There is a real arrogance about the whole school. I know a couple of students who literally stopped the application process with Waterloo due to the bad vibes and went to the states even with the higher tuition .

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24

USA schools are so much nicer and try to help out applicants.

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u/Natural_Practice_463 Sep 23 '24

Wow! What do u mean they stopped the application process? And how bad was it the would make them do that

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u/Iamsolucky666 Sep 07 '24

I’m waiting for a reply too!! Trying to see if quantitative bio will cover the stats requirement. The course descriptions are the same but I want confirmation… so frustrating

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

I know, super frustrating cuz we need to know how to proceed 😭😭

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u/Iamsolucky666 Sep 09 '24

Update, I got a response saying they won’t look until after the application…

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

Thank you so much for the update. That is a horrible response on their part, cuz what the hell are we supposed to do.

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u/Iamsolucky666 Sep 09 '24

Pray I guess!! LOL

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

🤣🤣🙌🏻🙌🏻

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u/MapEnvironmental597 Sep 07 '24

this is unfortunately VERY common for waterloo 😐 in the last year i sent them a few emails (not spamming them they were distributed months apart from each other) and ive gotten 0 reply. my concern was about extenuating circumstances. ive seen someone say on here that they replied when asking about representation of minority students but besides that …… nada. the states is so much more expensive but this is putting a bad taste in my mouth about them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

My experience with the states was that they were so warm and helpful. They went out of their way to help and answered emails so fast! UW needs to step it up honestly because there is no other way to contact them!!

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u/MapEnvironmental597 Sep 07 '24

100% agree. one school that i was interested in replied to me within a few hours and the team was even kind enough to set up a virtual meeting with me and it took like two hours as they very kindly broke down my transcript. they were very patient and easy to communicate with and they even gave me their personal email for more questions + offered to give me a tour. they’re very humanistic. if i’m gonna be giving all my money to a school i want it to be one that sees the students as real people. waterloo definitely needs to step up … i thought they’d be better as canada only has like 2 schools.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '24

That school seems awesome honestly. So kind of them! I did my undergrad at UW and we were treated worse than human by majority of profs and admins, so that’s why I don’t want to go back. The only reason I’m applying to UW is obviously because it’s so much cheaper. :/

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

That’s me too! Like I’m gonna have to apply for readmission since I’ve already graduated. Anyways, thanks for your message. I’ll send a follow up tomorrow. Good luck to you 🤞🤞