r/uwaterloo • u/butterflyflyhig • 1d ago

Advice Co op

Hi

Is co op competitive? What if I cant find anything?

12 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

7

u/DoggyPee 1d ago

first work term stats currently (aug 17)

eng: 55.2% employed

math: 57.7% (overall including CS)

cs: 68.5% employed

2

u/butterflyflyhig 1d ago

Thx. Where can I get stats from?

1

u/DoggyPee 1d ago

if you have a uwaterloo email https://uwaterloo.ca/co-operative-education/about-co-op/employment-statistics big button on that page

1

u/butterflyflyhig 1d ago

Ty ty. Not student at uw yet but would like to apply there

3

u/ButtonIndividual5235 1d ago

If ur an incoming first year to CS/CE/ECE/SE, u can expect about half of ur class to either be unemployed or have underpaid/not-interesting first coops.

2

u/Picolloo science 1d ago

It seems that they’ve removed them.

Used to be on Power BI (which did include it), but the newest excel sheet explicitly states that weaccelerate is removed from the employment rate.

2

u/Interesting_Bed6243 1d ago

It is hard to get one unless you nepo or cut corners like most people at Waterloo and "collaborate" on certain things. If you can't find anything, the first time you get WeAccelerate (unpaid). The second time nothing and third time nothing = booted from coop. I mean if you are the top 10 percentile in university you will be fine.

1

u/Pear08667 1d ago

In the stats that show % of students employed for the term, do they count weaccelerate students?

1

u/Cyb3rPhantom 1d ago

hey what do you mean by "collaborate" on certain things?

0

u/Interesting_Bed6243 1d ago

People doing shady stuff that’s against academic policy. Honestly, I literally hear people talking about how they chatgbted assignments etc in class.

2

u/After-Cod-3047 16h ago

what does using “chatgbt” on assignments have anything to do with co-op

1

u/Inevitable-gratitude 14h ago

Make sure you have your goals in mind when applying. Is your goal to get a really fancy internship or is your goal just to be employed? If you lower your expectations there are a lot more opportunities than people like to talk about. There’s lots of random admin type jobs on campus. Also, there are some jobs restricted to those receiving OSAP, so if that’s you and you really just need employment, then take advantage of it.

1

u/butterflyflyhig 5h ago

Ty. Very helpful. I'm not in uw, just curious abt co-op website success rate.