Lower class grades dont matter at all for applying to University, ie grade 9 and 10. You'll soon realize this when you will know how to use OUAC (Ontario Universities Application Centre). Only grade 11 and 12 marks matter, esp. grade 12.





Grade 11 is just a formality. All 1st batch of Engineering Science offers are released simultaneously, NO EARLY OFFERS in 2008 admissions.

Your marks dont seem to be a problem, except for English marks, you gotta IMPROVE that!!!! Even 70 would do !!!



And you dont need 9(?!?!?!?!?) courses in grade 12. Just take 7, including English, they need only 6. Just take 7, that includes 1 backup incase you get low marks on one!!!



Keep your grade 12 avg. of at least 88, preferably 90. One of my classmates got w/ 70 in English!!!!! so dont worry on English much !!



Regarding Engineering Science, let me warn you, its no fun at all!!!!!



Engineering Science has 50% dropout rate within 1st year!!!!!! Class of 350 ends up being of 170 at end of year2. And most of them, had avg of 90% or above in high school. Reason is that they are just used to memorizing stuff not understand it!!!

Also, it has a rigorous course load of 7 courses per semester. I doubt if any undergrad engineering or other program has that high course load in entire Canada. Thats about 31 hours of classes per week !!!! No one, not even med school has that high number of hours of classes I guess!! So my pick, make an intelligent choice!!!!



Case :: I have a guy in my class, who was offered admission to MIT (Yes, MIT) but opted to attend EngSci and now he's struggling in 30s. No need to mention that he got 90s in high school.

Key point, high school marks wont matter much (only after you get in!!!!).

Regarding low GPA, yes, GPA is comparatively lower, reason???

Reason is that, everyone attending EngSci has avg of 88-98 while entering from high school. Now, faculty would be kicked out if class avg is 93%. So, whole class is 'Zoomed' in that range, and a new class avg is obtained. However, class avg is 75% which is still good and mantar is to be above 10% of class avg and if you do that, you are KING OF THE WORLD!!!!



Main info on EngSci: Its not about memorizing stuff, its about how well you can UNDERSTAND the course, even for Bio course, its more of understanding than memorizing.