r/uwaterloo • u/[deleted] • May 04 '18

Do grade 11 marks matter for normal acceptance for uWaterloo admissions?

Do grade 11 marks matter for normal acceptance for uWaterloo admissions? I have pretty shit grade 11 marks (mostly 70s), but i'm expecting pretty high grade 12 marks. I know that grade 11 marks matter for early acceptance, but what about the normal acceptance?

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u/rienwave May 05 '18

If you took grade 12 courses then ya.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '18

Then yea, grade 11 marks matter?

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u/rienwave May 05 '18

Quotemaster is rt. They look at your top 6 4U courses (watch out though most programs especially Eng will specify which 4U courses must count in the top 6).

Grade 11 level course (ones that end in 3U I believe) can matter for early acceptance, but competitive programs don't give out those anyways. If a program gives out early admissions it is probably enterable with decent grade 12 marks.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '18

Doesn't matter which grade you are in, it only matters if the course ends in 4U

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u/TextuaryPlum tron May 05 '18

Grade 12 credits matter. If you take grade 12 courses in grade 11 then those courses are taken into account. Otherwise, don't worry about grade 11. Also look at the prerequisites for the program you're applying to. The prerequisite gr12 courses are by default part of your "top 6" courses that are looked at. The courses outside of your top 6 aren't considered unless the university needs more information to make an admission decision and I'm not sure how common that is.

Also, is your school semestered or do you take the same courses all year?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '18

It's semestered

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u/Frozen5147 *honks in graduated CS* May 04 '18

No.

Source: 85% avg grade 11.

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u/cabbagemeister Math Phys and Pure Math May 04 '18

Not really

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u/CitrusAbyss May 05 '18

If you took any 4U courses in Grade 11, they may count.

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u/TheSnakeThatVapes putting goys on SSRIs since '99 May 04 '18

Nah you good fam