Canadian Wants to Transfer into Queen’s, Western, or McMaster for Engineering

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Hi,

I’m currently in my 2nd year of engineering at a Canadian university. On paper, I’m a 1st year. This is because I convinced my current university to allow me to late drop all but one of my semesters. I would like to transfer into engineering at Queen’s, Western, or McMaster.

In high school, I finished with a 95. I maintained a 95+ all throughout high school. I completed all prerequisite courses for engineering with a 90+.

During the 1 semester on my university transcript, I took 4 non-engineering electives. I finished that semester with a 93 overall.

Why did my university allow me to essentially late drop my entire 1st year? I went through extreme circumstances that year. Basically, my dad suffered a neurological disability, left his job, and later died. This caused immense domestic and financial problems for me and my family. I could include this on my applications to Western and McMaster (Queen’s isn’t allowing a supplementary application this year) but I don’t see the point.

For what it’s worth, back in high school, I was in an international languages program. I won student of the year when I finished the program. It was (in my opinion) a relatively respectable award. I was presented the award at the country in question’s consulate and the event was televised (obviously not by any major media companies). Aside from that, I won several academic awards.

Can anyone evaluate my chances of getting accepted? Advice would also be appreciated.

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What are your grades from this semester?

Assuming your grades are a B or better, your chances of being accepted as a transfer will depend on spaces in the new program. Even the programs likely couldn’t tell you at this point. It will depend on whether there’s any dropouts in spring. Go ahead and apply, but realize that there’s an element of luck involved.

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Hi bouders,

You misunderstand, that one semester on my transcript is this semester. I finished this semester with a 93 and completed 4 electives courses. I do not intend to take any more courses at my current university.

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I also want to apply into 1st year.

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Can you tell us where you are currently? Canadian universities tend to be consistently quite good.

To me it looks like it is definitely worth putting in all three applications. However, transfers between Canadian universities are probably rare enough to make it very difficult to predict your chances. I do know someone who transferred into McGill years ago and his case did not look as strong as yours, but he was not an engineering major and this was a long time ago.

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Sure, I’m currently at Guelph for biomedical engineering. I am 100% certain about transferring though.