<p>My understanding for U of T and university of british columbia, you just submit your transcript and test scores and thats it?</p>
<p>I'm not really sure. Do they put emphasis on later years of your transcript? What classes you took?</p>
<p>UofT (along with McGill and most well known Canadian universities) don’t care about ECs or essays for admissions (aside for getting in off the waitlist. UBC is actually the exception though, they do care about ECs (dont know about essays though) like an American university. I know McGill only looks at grade 10,11 and 12 grades, but I believe UBC and Toronto look at all years grades. Admissions for uoft at least is very numerical.</p>
<p>If you want to know where you stand, please list some credentials and intended major(s)…</p>
<p>2300 sat
800 math satii
780 chem sat
3.68 UW gpa (freshman year hurts) 3.8 w/o freshman year 4.3 W, idk if they count A-'s as 3.7’s or not though.</p>
<p>anything engineering really. I really hope they look at course list though, everything is honors/ap all stem centric classes are AP, taking some more advanced courses like computer architecutre and MVC</p>
<p>McGill engineering (any concentration): Safety
U Toronto engineering: Low match/Match
UBC: Safety (if you actually had any ECs to show for it)</p>
<p>So they care for what classes you take and what not?</p>
<p>Yes what courses you take is important insofar that you have completed the list of required courses. Each engineering department at the universities you are interested in will have a list of required courses on their engineering department webpages, or on their admissions pages so you might want to check them out before applying. However for engineering this pretty much means just your standard assortment of math (calculus and functions) and science (phys/chem/bio), usually they don’t require any highschool credits that are out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>Because your gpa is so much better without your grade 9 marks factored in your a shoo-in for McGill engineering. UofT though looks at all 4 years gpa and they generally want a 3.7+ for engineering, so while you have a good shot (your SATs are spectacular) I would not say UofT is a safe bet. I honestly don’t know enough about UBC engineering to comment, i just know they look at ECs. </p>
<p>One nice thing about uoft is that they often give you credit for many (but not necessarily all) of your AP courses, and if you finish with a 4 or a 5 they sometimes count them as either 1 or 2 semesters of basic compulsory freshman courses (ie. 100 level courses). For example my AP bio credit (5) from high schools counted for a BIO150Y (intro to biology) credit (Y= year long course), whereas an AP chemistry credit only counted for CHM138H (organic chemistry) credit (H=half semester) but not CHM139 (physical chemistry). If you have enough AP courses from high school it is sometimes possible to graduate a semester early.</p>
<p>So they wouldn’t necessarily care if all your classes are APs rather than regular classes except for basic level classes. Like they won’t bother to look at your transcript and just look at the number that is your unweighted GPA barring not completing the curriculum?</p>
<p>Dam that kind of sucks though, does U of T operate on with A-'s counting as 3.7s? Or do they count all A’s as a 4.0? I know its in different for like the UC sytem.</p>
<p>For admissions I believe that UofT may look more favorably on applicants with AP credits, however, the admission standards are based on unweighted gpa as well as SATs.</p>
<p>Having AP credits allows you to SKIP some of the first year university classes such as BIO150 and therefore allow you to take second year courses that have these first year courses as pre reqs right off the bat (eg. BIO270). I personally found this to be a huge advantage for me.</p>
<p>at UofT an A- is equal to a 3.7 not a 4.0. McGill and UBC also I believe are the same in this regard. If you calculated your gpa based on A- equaling a 4.0 you might need to recalculate and re-post your gpa to be accurately chanced on this thread.</p>
<p>yea I calculated with 3.7 not 4.</p>
<p>Well its a bit hopeful at least for AP classes</p>